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
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
