Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
