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.

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.

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.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

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

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

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