Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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