Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
