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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
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"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
