Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
