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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart..

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

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

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

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

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one..

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

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