The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
