Children Quote by Kim Brooks

Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides…

— Robertson Davies

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our…

— Samuel Richardson

Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other…

— Stephanie Coontz

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends

— Anonymous

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

— Jack Kingston

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

— Joseph Addison

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided…

— Sarah Dessen

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

— Carol S. Dweck

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love…

— Peter Ustinov

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's…

— Jeffrey Kluger