George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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

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

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.

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

[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

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.

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.

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.