Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.