Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
- Source
- Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Date
- 1738
Meaning of “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half…”
The maxim pairs careful choice before commitment with tolerance afterward, compressing a practical relationship philosophy into a comic contrast.
Where does it come from?
Poor Richard’s Almanack; a marital maxim later repeated in discussions of Franklin’s proverbial advice.
