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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
