"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
― Benjamin Franklin
Topic(s):
Marriage
― Benjamin Franklin
More From Benjamin Franklin
- "The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
- "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
- "All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
More In Marriage
- "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."― W. H. Auden
- "Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, ‘Hey let’s look at what is really important and let’s do that now.’"― Ann Romney
- "Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’."― Herbert Spencer