Socrates

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

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

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

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.

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

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.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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.

[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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

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.