Marriage Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.

— Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

— Benjamin Franklin

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

There are 3 faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

— Benjamin Franklin

“He that would thrive must ask his wife." It”

— Benjamin Franklin

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

— Benjamin Franklin

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill…

— Benjamin Franklin

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.”

— Benjamin Franklin

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that takes a wife, takes care

— Benjamin Franklin

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

— Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause…

— Benjamin Franklin

You will discover 3 trustworthy mates, an aged wife, an aged canine, and ready dollars.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

— Benjamin Franklin

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is,…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such…

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

— Benjamin Franklin

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

— Benjamin Franklin

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

— Benjamin Franklin