#marriage

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning."

"It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive."

"Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside."

"In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!"

"Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share."

"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means."

"I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy"is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want."

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self."

"As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."

"Marriage is the death of hope."

"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning."

"Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one."

"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."