the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

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

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

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.