Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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
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
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
