Socrates

There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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.

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.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

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

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.