After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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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.
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France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in America.
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Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
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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.
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The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.
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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.
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Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!
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A man's folly is another man's wife.
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
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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.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
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For one man's chin is as rough as another's, and one man's lies are as smooth as another's
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A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
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Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
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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.
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One man's folly is another man's wife.
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The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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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.
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one
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