Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
