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

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

What we live by we die by.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.