Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.