George Bernard Shaw

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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

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

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

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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 the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for 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.