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
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
