Samuel Johnson

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote.

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man’s whore.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Whatever you have spend less.

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

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

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

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

On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago – and every day since, I’ve grown prouder and more in love with him.

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.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

[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

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.

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

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

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.