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 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"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
