A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Man proposes, woman forecloses.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
She who boasts of lovers soon has none.
Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
