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
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
