A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Author: Andre Maurois

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence, and more than any other one thing, a smile reassures them.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.