“Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.”

“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”

“A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.”

“a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”

“You will never win if you never begin.”

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

“Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.”