MARRYING a woman, after you have kept her ten years waiting, is like buying a doll that has stood too long in the showcase. WHEN a man asks a girl for a kiss, she has to refuse him, but when he simply takes it, she has to take it, too. NOBODY scorns a woman for marrying money or a title; what they scorn is the sort of thing she usually marries along with it. THE woman whom a man idealizes is the one who keeps him guessing; who never lets him see how the wheels go round at her toilet table nor in her heart and head. SOME men regard home as nothing but a "rest cure." |
TAXING bachelors only encourages them; a man always values anything more, even freedom, when he has to pay for it. THERE is a time of the year when a man will pay thirty dollars for a Panama hat that makes him look like thirty cents, and thirty cents for a drink that makes him feel like a millionaire. THE knots in the marriage tie which rub a man the wrong way are the "shalt nots"; those which chafe a woman are the "ought nots." THE social swim at present appears to be a whirlpool, wherein a man gets soaked with either weak tea or cocktails. IN a man's opinion a kiss is an end that justifies any means. |
| WHEN a man makes a woman his wife it's
the highest compliment he can pay her—and
usually it's the last.
THE happiest wife is not always the one
who marries the best man, but the one
who makes the best of the man she marries.
"WHO findeth a wife findeth a good
thing," saith the Scriptures. Well,
that's what most men are looking for nowadays.
IT isn't the big vague vows he makes at the
altar which a man finds it so difficult to
keep or to get around, but the little foolish
promises he made before he ever got there.
IT IS as foolish to try to reform a man after
he has lost his front hair as to try to tame a
lion after he has gotten his second teeth.
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IT isn't the things a man says that proves he loves you, but the things he tries to say and can't—the things that choke right up in his throat and leave him sitting dumb and miserable on your parlor divan. PHYSICIANS say the heart is an organ; but by the way some men manage to grind out the same old love songs over and over again it would seem to be more like a street piano. ONE whiff of an onion will do more to kill love than the breaking of the ten commandments. ALL a man demands of a woman is a knowledge of what she ought not to do, what she ought not to say and what she ought not to think. All a woman need know in order to wear a halo in her husband's eyes is how to keep it on straight. |
| MARRIED men should make the most successful
fiction writers, because it takes a
highly developed imagination to invent a
different story for one's wife every night.
DON'T marry a man merely because he can
write nice long, soul-satisfying letters;
wait until you find out if he can write
equally nice long satisfactory checks.
ONE man's folly is often another man's
wife. THE woman who makes a man perfectly happy is the one who cares just enough to respond when he is interested and not enough to be interested when he doesn't respond. MARRIAGE is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring or eating with chopsticks; it looks so easy until you try it. |