Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor

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

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

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

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time