Relationship Test Quotes

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

Love isn't love until it's past.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.