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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
