Quotes About Marriage

A marriage without friendship is like a locked prison with lost keys.

Friendship brings out the best in marriage.

Friendship is a power supply system; it keeps marriages going when their lights go out.

The only relationship that gives the fullest expression of friendship is marriage.

See your spouse as your best friend, not only a wife or a husband.

It's not automatic to have a successful friendship in marriage; it's decisive and intentional.

Until you love your spouse enough to make them your best friend, you could stay with them for years and never taste the friend in them.

Marriage is a lifetime opportunity to have your spouse as your lifetime best friend.

The best relationship for the full consummation of friendship is marriage.

Make your spouse your best friend. This won't happen overnight; it takes hard work.

Being best friends before marriage is no guarantee you will continue to be best friends after marriage; it only gives you a higher ground to sustain your best friendship.

Come together with your spouse, and become each other's best friend forever.

When you become so much obsessed with your marriage; you lose your friendship with your spouse.

When you marry, you come into two different but equally essential parts of relationship with your spouse; a marriage relationship and a friendship relationship.

To become best friends in marriage all you need to do is to be each other's friend.

Most marriages take friendships for granted; that's why there are only few spouse's who are best friends.

Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously, in pencil, over and over until he has them off pat, the magic letters of his name. More than the wedding itself, that little ceremony there under the lamp, all silent save for the soft scratching of graphite on paper, will mark the true beginning of their life together.

A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

But Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it." (Matthew 19:11-12 The Message, emphasis added)

It seemed to him, the more he thought about it, a kind of marriage between stone and water, the oyster. Inside a stone, water thickens into an oyster, and then it pulses within its shell like the gray heart of a gray stone. He felt he was getting close to something he needed to understand, not about oysters, about something else....

A marriage should be about friendship and companionship, not about sex.

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.