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.

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

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

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.