The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
