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

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

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 women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

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