Friendship In Marriage Quotes

#1. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

Brook Tesla

#2. The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation

Oscar Wilde

#3. What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

William Cowper

#4. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#5. 'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind ... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Luanne Rice

#6. I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ...

Katherine Philips

#7. I believe in finding a man who can be your best friend, because once the lust fades, friendship is what will hold the foundation of your marriage together.

Nicole Simone

#8. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.

Mary Engelbreit

#9. Just having someone there. The right person that you can honestly say you love, and love's you in return is a blessing.

Auliq Ice

#10. [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Timothy Keller

#11. I believe in love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#13. When you are in love, you always want to be with your lover.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. [Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Wallace Stegner

#15. Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Thomas S. Monson

#16. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong

#17. The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex ... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Marilyn Monroe

#18. In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful.

Christine Benvenuto

#19. When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.

Criss Jami

#21. Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know ...

Jo Coudert

#22. If you can fall in love, then you can love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.

Alyxandra Harvey

#24. No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#25. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.

Blanche Ebbutt

#26. Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

Oscar Wilde

#27. The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

Barack Obama

#28. Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

David Hume

#29. If marriage is centrally an emotional union, rather than one inherently ordered to family life, it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis

#30. A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.

Olaotan Fawehinmi