"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." ― Benjamin Franklin Topic(s): Marriage More From Benjamin Franklin "Beauty and folly are old companions." "Well done is better than well said." "Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor." More In Marriage "I don’t smoke, don’t drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know."― Sarah Michelle Gellar "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 "I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don’t know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way."― Elizabeth Edwards