When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.