Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"