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.

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

Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

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

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.