Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.