Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"