The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
