Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.