There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
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.
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"