Companionship Quotes

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

Anonymous

A man loves his sweetheart the most his wife the best but his mother the longest.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

Edgar Watson Howe

The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Love is passion obsession someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.

William Parrisb

One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say "I love you" in ways that can be preserved looked at and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years and throughout the decades of love.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

Two's a company three's a crowd.

English Proverb

We are in the same boat

The right hands of fellowship.

Galatians

What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?

Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.

Muhammad

A wife is the joy of a man's heart.

Talmud

I thought I was in love once and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.

When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

Talmud

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

Francis Beaumont

To see her is to love her And love but her forever For Nature made her what she is And never made another.

We have lived and loved together Through many changing years We have shared each other's gladness And wept each other's tears.

Charles Jefferys

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelley Winters

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.

Alexandre Dumas

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a custom which is still continued.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

In the race for love I was scratched.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire good marriage same rule.

Marnie Reed Crowell

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story the 1970s hit which immortalized the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Connors as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

Benjamin Franklin

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves afraid of the loneliness that lives in them and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

V. F. Calverton

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman!

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.

Joanne Woodward

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Amy Bloom

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Love: Two minds without a single thought.

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in a relationship that for the moment is not of two isolated selves but a union.

Rollo May

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