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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 that last.

— Andrew Sullivan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

— Diane Keaton

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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.

— Samuel Richardson

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

— Samuel Butler

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

— Albert Camus

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

— Aristotle

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

— Deborah Tannen