Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Marriage

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

• If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Want, Ifs

• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Marriage, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Mom, Daughter

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Fear, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anniversary, Marriage, Men

  "The Completed Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".

• Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Masters

• The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Marriage, Order

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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