Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
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"
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
