 A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. |
| Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. |
| There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. |
| Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. |
| Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. |
| Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. |
| After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. |
| When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. |
| Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. |
| Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. |
| When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. |
| A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. |
| A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. |
| Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. |
| The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. |
| A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. |
| In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. |
| Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. |
| Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. |
| Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. |
