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"
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
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig