Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
