George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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.

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.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

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

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

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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

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

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

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.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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

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

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.

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