Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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
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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
