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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
- Love
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016Newsweek, March 28, 1960
- Love
- Men
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
- Sex
I’m a great housekeeper: I get divorced, I keep the house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,⁠—a slight hysterical tendency,⁠—what is one to do?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
- Health
She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)
- Movies
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Love
When I’m married I want to be single, and when I’m single I want to be married.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IVIn context
- Love
“All romances end at marriage.”
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter XLIIn context
- Love
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter XIIn context