Friendship In Marriage Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

#9. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. 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

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

Criss Jami

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Christine Benvenuto

#15. 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

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

Erica Jong

#17. [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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. 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

#20. I believe in love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Timothy Keller

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. '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

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

Randy Thornhorn

#28. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Brook Tesla