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“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”
“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”
“One man's folly is another man's wife.”
“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
“Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.”
“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”
“A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'”
“When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.”
“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.”
“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”
“There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.”
“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.”
“Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.”
“Variety is the spice of love.”
“When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.”
“Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.”
“Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.”
“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.”
“Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.”