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Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract
but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake 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.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

Marriage: a souvenir of love.

Love is a matter of give and take
marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom
but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite
everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.

A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Results for A man is like a cat; chase him and he'll run; sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

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.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

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.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

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.

Woman's love
a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

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.

Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate.

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.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

You will never win if you never begin.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman
and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

Variety is the spice of love.

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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 loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman
a married man needs only an excuse.

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

The mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

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.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Some widowers are bereaved
others, relieved.