The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
