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Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Marriage

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Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, Masters

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin
Family, Marriage, Funny Love
Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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.

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

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".

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

Benjamin Franklin
Marriage, Want, Ifs

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.

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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