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
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
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
