Samuel Johnson

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

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.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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.

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

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

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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

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.