Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
