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If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

There are no roads in all Bohemia !

In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

To take the world as one finds it

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason