There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
