Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

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.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

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

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