Samuel Johnson Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Birthday: September 18
Death: December 13
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.
source: Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 Mar. 1772)
topic: Marriage, Men, Together, Civilised Society, Being Natural
