Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.