“The highest happiness on earth is marriage.” ~William Lyon Phelps
“Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.” ~Author Unknown
“Marriage: that I call the will of two to create… the one who is more than those who created it.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
“When love is not madness, it is not love.” ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“Who, being loved, is poor?” ~Oscar Wilde
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” ~Zora Neale Hurston
“A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay –
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.”
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, “You Are Sixteen (Reprise)”
“Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.” ~Charles Dickens
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” ~Robert Browning
“All things do go a-courting,
In earth, or sea, or air,
God hath made nothing single
But thee in His world so fair.”
~Emily Dickinson
“When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one…….”
The Singles Place 