By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
