Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
