Quotes on Encouraging Marriage

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect_x000D_ _x000D_ the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.