Socrates

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.