The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
