“The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”

“Art only begins where Imitation ends.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”