A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.
Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
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.
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.