find out what side of an argument his wife is on, and then take the other side, in order to keep it from sagging.

   After a bachelor's heart has been patched up, cut down and remodeled to fit the romantic ideal of one girl after another, there is seldom enough of it left to go all the way around the honeymoon.

   There is no question of degree in matrimony. You can be a little bit in love or a little bit ill; but you can't be a little bit married or a little bit dead.

   Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

   If your husband is wrapped up in his work from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. you needn't bother to investigate his morals. Satan wouldn't waste his talents trying to tempt a man with so little time and energy for the devil's business.

   You can't argue, frighten or nag a man into loving you just because he "ought to"—because, dearie, love is not exactly a man's feeling for a thought-censor, a creditor or a critic-on-the-hearth.

   There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death—but that's the usual way.

   In matters of the heart most men are still in a state of barbarism, slightly tempered by woman.

   A man is never old until his spirit is worn out, his rosy hopes have turned gray, his illusions have faded and he has wrinkles on his heart.

   An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition and his wife in the country.

   Every time a man hits a woman's vanity he makes a dent in her love.

   A man's first lie wounds a woman's heart, the second breaks it, the third mends it, and all the rest simply harden it.

   Dissimulation is the price of peace—but it's awfully hard for a married woman to preserve the peace by deceiving her husband into thinking that he is deceiving her, every time he tries.

   Of course men are not so suspicious as women. A woman in love would be jealous of a store dummy; but how can a man possibly suspect that any girl on whom he may bestow himself could ever think of anybody else?

   A good woman inspires a man, 

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