It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

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