The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
