True love isn’t the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
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.
Matrimony is the price of love – divorce, the rebate.
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite – everything seems so flat and tasteless.
A man’s ideal woman is the one he couldn’t get.
The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.
Love is woman’s eternal spring and man’s eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
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.
There are more ways of killing a man’s love than by strangling it to death, but that’s the usual way.
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
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 is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
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.
The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Variety is the spice of love.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it’s the highest compliment he can pay her, and it’s usually the last.