onishing than the length of time a man's love
will subsist on nothing is the celerity with which it is surfeited the
moment it has any encouragement to feed on.

Even when a man knows that he wants to marry a woman, she has to prove
it to him with a diagram before he is really convinced of it.

A man is so apt to mistake his love of experiment for love of a woman
that half the time he doesn't know which is which.

Why is it that a man never thinks he has tasted the cup of joy unless he
has splashed it all over himself, as though it were his morning bath?

A man is so versatile that he can read his newspaper with one set of
brain-cells while he carries on a conversation with his wife with
another set.

A girl hides her emotions under a veil of modesty, a spinster under a
cloak of cynicism, a wife under a mantle of tact, and a widow under a
cloud of mystery--and then women wonder why they are "misunderstood."

Proposing is a sort of acrobatic feat, in which a man must hang on to
his nerve with one hand and to the girl with the other. If he lets go of
either, he is lost.

In love, as in poker, men play just to _play_--and then proceed to throw
away what has been easily won, without any thought of its value. Thus
gamblers so often die in poverty and Lotharios in loneliness.

Nowadays, a truly chivalrous girl will "lie like a lady" in order to
protect a trusting man's vanity.

The woman who fascinates a man is not the one who looks up to him as the
sun of her existence, but the one who merely looks down on him as one of
the footlights.

Don't doubt a man when he says, "I never loved like _this_ before." Each
time a man falls in love with so much more ease and facility that he
doesn't recognize it as the same old emotion at all.

The first time a man lies to his wife he is surprised to discover how
easy it is to do it. After that he is surprised to find out how hard it
is _not_ to do it.

A man always speaks of having "given" his heart to a woman as though he
had done something generous and noble; whereas, nine times out of ten,
she probably had to wrench it from him.

About the only things in connection with his wife for which a man shows
any respect after a few years of marriage are her reputation and her
toothbrush.

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BLONDES

NEXT to a mouse or a rich widow, there is nothing on earth that a normal
girl dreads so much as a blonde.

No matter how many brunettes a man may have mar