Henry Ford

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

We wish all users of Ford cars to know what they are entitled to.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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

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

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

[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

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

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

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

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.

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.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.