Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
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"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
