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 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.

Names have power.

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.