Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.