Top 64 Marriage Is Friendship Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.
Criss Jami
#3. Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people
but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage.
Pratik Akkawar
#5. 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
#6. Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
Peter Ustinov
#7. All I want is to love you and fill you with happiness.
Auliq Ice
#12. Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.
Marlin K. Jensen
#14. Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire
#20. 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
#22. Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
John Wooden
#23. 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
#25. Marriage is a commitment to do the right thing beyond the emotion of feeling loved
Blake L. Higginbotham
#26. The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
Robert Breault
#27. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
Criss Jami
#28. There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
#29. At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
Benjamin Cheever
#30. The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. You meet a new guy, analyze him, not good for marriage, not good for a relationship, not good for fucking, maybe excepting the very drunk mood, so, conclusion: this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Irina Bors
#33. Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage.
Gordon Merrick
#34. Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is available as a feature but you are talking about relationship and marriage are you right with your mind?
Deyth Banger
#35. The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation
Oscar Wilde
#36. Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.
Robertson Davies
#37. 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
#38. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
William Penn
#39. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson
#40. '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
#42. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.
John Glenn
#45. 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
#47. 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
#48. [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
Timothy Keller
#49. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.
Carole Lombard
#50. Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.
Samuel Johnson
#51. 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
#52. From open sea she's chosen me
and dashed the hopes of many.
A life with her is worth the hopes
my love for her may bury.
Uzoma C. Azuonye
#53. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel De Montaigne
#54. [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
#55. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?
Sean Stewart
#56. Rima: "Hey Shiki, won't you be my husband?"
Shiki: "sure."
Rima: "How rash..."
Shiki: "Ehh? Why...? It means that you will be my friend and companion forever. What is there to ponder?
Matsuri Hino
#58. Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.
Damien Echols
#59. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.
Dennis Prager
#61. The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
Katherine Mansfield
#62. Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
Aristotle.
#63. Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
Ruth Rendell
#64. I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.
Martin Freeman
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