rather than
specialists.

IT MAY be possible to patch up a wornout love affair, but the darned
places will always rub even if they don't show.

IF a man would display the same patience in catering to a wife that he
does in coloring an old meerschaum pipe matrimony would be as pleasant
as a pipe dream.

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THERE'S an old superstition that it's bad luck to be married in May; why
not include the other eleven months?

THE only contract a man considers so unimportant that he will sign it
without first reading it over is the marriage contract.

A WOMAN whose husband gives her cause for jealousy should not shed
tears; she should shed the husband.

A MAN is never really old until his rosy hopes have turned gray and he
has begun to get wrinkles in his disposition.

A GOOD woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

RICH men and their wives are soon parted; matrimony plus money has such
a way of developing into alimony.

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ONE way to a man's heart is through your father's pocketbook.

LOVE is the sparkle in the wine; matrimony, the headache that follows.

BETTER be a young man's slave than an old man's nurse.

THERE is something about one cocktail that makes a man want another the
moment he has swallowed it; and there is something about one woman that
makes a man want another the moment he has married her.

A MAN plays his part in his first love affair as an actor plays his
first star role with fire and enthusiasm, but without poise or method;
later he becomes so technical that he can make his pretty speeches
backward without a single thrill.

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THE only common ground on which some married people ever meet is the
burying ground.

LOVE is like a good dinner; the only way to get any satisfaction out of
it is to enjoy it while it lasts, have no regrets when it is over and
pay the price with good grace.

HUSBANDS and wives may meet in heaven--but some of them won't if they
see each other first.

THE hardest part about the "next morning" is not the headache; it's the
effort to recall what particular story you told your wife the night
before.

POOR people don't have to economize on love, kisses nor enthusiasm; and
with plenty of those one can cover all the bare spots on the walls of
poverty.

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FLATTER a husband a little and he will adore you; flatter him too much
and he will soon begin to wonder why such a combination of Solomo