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A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.

A bachelor has to have an inspiration for making love to a woman--a married man needs only an excuse.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

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

A fool and her money are soon courted.

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.

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

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

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

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

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.

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.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

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.

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.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

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.

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

Eternity: The interval between the time when a woman discovers that a man is in love with her and the time when he finds it out himself and tells her about it.

Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

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.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.