 It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. |
| Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time. |
| A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet. |
| Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. |
| Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. |
| And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. |
| A fool and her money are soon courted. |
| It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. |
| Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. |
| When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. |
| What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. |
| No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. |
| Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. |
| There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them. |
| A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest. |
| A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. |
| France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America." |
| It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. |
| In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place. |
| A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." |
