Socrates

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it… Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

How many are the things I can do without!

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.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.

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.

There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.

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.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

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

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

[on Michelle] A dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.