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
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
