A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
From Helen Rowland
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
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.
After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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.
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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