The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
