We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.