There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
