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One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case. -- Alana Stewart
Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts. -- Michael Arrington
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. -- Martin Freeman
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. -- Voltaire
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning. -- Jane Harrison
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. -- Julie Andrews
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! -- William Hazlitt
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. -- Kathy Mattea
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature. -- Adam Gopnik
Marriage is a mutual friendship. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Marriage is a long-lasting friendship. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Marriage is the tomb of friendship. -- Hannah Webster Foster
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is much more important to a man than marriage. -- Gordon Merrick
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage. -- Katherine Mansfield
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. -- Oscar Wilde
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. -- Imogen Stubbs
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue -- William Penn
Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage -- Marion D. Hanks
Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc. -- Nike Thaddeus
Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust. -- Donna Lynn Hope
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. -- Michel de Montaigne
Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person. -- Jim George
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil. -- Robert Breault
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
Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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
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
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best. -- Nicholas Sparks
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
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
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process. -- Viggo Mortensen

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