Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
