It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships my marriage my career my family my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.

You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

In a bad marriage friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends we may go on for years intending to leave talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding and we got offered millions of dollars for them millions.

During last night's debate John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

A man's friendships are like his will invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

My marriage is on the rocks again yeah my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

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.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

I love everything that's old - old friends old times old manners old books old wine.

Behold my friends the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of their love!

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

For though we love both the truth and our friends piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?