In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Quotations
Marriage
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
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"
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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
