Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
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