The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
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"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
