Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
