Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.

I have been in relationships, and I felt that I was in love, but I don't know if love lasts forever.

Love can happen any moment, anywhere, but I am also a person who believes more in friendship than love, relationships, and affairs.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.