We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.