Nelson Mandela on marriage

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The people are their own liberators.

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Amy Bloomborn 1953

• Love

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

Woody Allenborn 1935Standup Comic (1999)

• Comedy

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not you’ll become a philosopher.

Socrates470–399 BC

• Philosophy