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

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

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

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

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

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

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