Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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"
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
