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
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
