A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
The major sin is the sin of being born.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal
Of children as of procreation – the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.