There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
