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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.
A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.
A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.
A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
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.
A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
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.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.
Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.
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?
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.