Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

When a man’s in love, he at once makes a pedestal-of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a womans in love she doesnt care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

Women’s hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

It takes two to make a love affair and a man’s meat is too often a woman’s poison.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.