Learn Through Quotations

“The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.”

“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”

“Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.”

“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”

“A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.”

“Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.”

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”

“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”

“All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.”

“No woman wants to see herself too clearly.”

“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”

“With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.”

“Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.”

“Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.”

“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.”

“Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.”

“A perfect marriage is one in which 'I'm sorry' is said just often enough.”

“Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.”

“Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.”