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2. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

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3. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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4. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

5. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. – Helen Rowland

6. When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell

7. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. – Leo Tolstoy

8. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. – Nora Ephron

9. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

- André Maurois

10. The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

- Andrew Sullivan

11. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

- Bertrand Russell

12. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner