Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

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.

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

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

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.