Socrates

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.

There’s no doubt I’m a better man having spent time with Michelle. I would never say that Michelle’s a better woman, but I will say she’s a little more patient.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president. Being married to Michelle Obama is number one.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Obviously I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done without Michelle… not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day.

He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.