Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
