Anniversary Quote by Marilyn Monroe

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those,…

— Isabel Allende

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

“The sticky marital truths: - Friendship lasts longer than romance. - Romance adds icing to the friendship cake. - There are times when neither…

— Paula Whidden

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends

— Anonymous

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship…

— Marlin K. Jensen

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

— Michel de Montaigne

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships…

— Andrew Sullivan

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

— Thomas Moore

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

— Imogen Stubbs

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

— Thomas More

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet,…

— Joseph Addison

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft