“A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.”

“Dr Johnson is the only conversationalist who triumphs over time.”

“Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.”

“The truth is that: We are unhappy married and unmarried we're unhappy. In marriage you must first endure, pity and then embrace.”

“I wrote it about a friend of mine who married his high school sweet heart. They had a baby together and one day, when the baby was about four months old, my friends wife was driving down the road by herself, pulled over to the side and she just died in her car.”

“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”

“"If you want to do something great in the world, do not get married, remain single… One may get married after he had accomplished something great in this world." Yet this great man who advised against marriage, was the happiest of men at the fireside of his family.”

“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”

“On March 4. 1644, 5. I married Susanna daughter of John and Rachel Glyde of Northjam in Sussex; born there about the end of January 1621, 2. and baptised Feb. 3 following. By whom I have (beside other children who died young) a Son and two Daughters now surviving; John born Dec. 26 1650. Anne born June 4. 1656. and Elizabeth born Sept. 23 1658…. My Wife died at Oxford Mar. 17. 1686, 7. after we had been married more than 42 years. ”

“Johnson observed, that "he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney."”