In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Quotations
Marriage
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
