The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
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"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
