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

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.

Leaders know where they can function better. They don’t cry over what they cannot do.

We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.