Conjugal Quote by Mortimer Adler

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

— Mortimer Adler

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

— Samuel Johnson

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

— Maggie Gallagher

Friendship often leads to love, but lust seldom lead to friendship.

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last…

— Marianne Fredriksson

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

— Samuel Johnson

Friendship often ends in love while love rarely ended with friendship

— Anonymous

Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true…

— Joan Frank

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

— Mason Cooley