Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"
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
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
