Chris Matthews Quotes

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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.

Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

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

All who love are conspirators.

I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun.

I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.

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.'

You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.