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
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
