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 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.

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.

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

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better.

If we listen, we shall learn.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out of love, and back in love.

Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.