There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
