Soft, sweet things with a lot of fancy dressing - that's what a little boy loves to eat and a grown man prefers to marry.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.