“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.” 
― Elizabeth Peters

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” 
― Katharine Hepburn

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.” 
― Benjamin Franklin

“To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.” 
― Elizabeth I

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore