A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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.
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.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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