The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
