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 is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
