If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?