You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.