Firsts Quote by Thomas Moore

“By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“If the one thing was right, everything elses must surely be right; the thing was axiomatic. It was true that happiness had often to…

— Dorothy Sayers

“A shrew, a wife, a whore. Those seemed to be my choices. I ask any man reading this, how could you decide whether to…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?”

— Juan T. Llibre

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

— Cornel West

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“She asked herself the eternal question – and she knew it to be the eternal question – whether no man and woman can ever…

— Ford Madox Ford

“What is a woman's greatest virtue? Patience.”

— India Edghill

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

— Socrates

“The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.”

— Seneca

Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.

— George Santayana

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young…

— Jane Austen