One man's folly is another man's wife.

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.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know.

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.

I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.