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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
