Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Topics: Marriage Quotes

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform,...

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform,...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always...

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always...

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we...

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not...

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for...

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of...

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of...

The future is purchased by the present.

The future is purchased by the present.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to...

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward...

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward...