Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

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.

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming.

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity