What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.

The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to read more

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

A father in a canoe
in which his baby is seated
walks more carefully than on land.

A father in a canoe
in which his baby is seated
walks more carefully than on land.