You May Also Like / View all maxioms
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the read more
The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this read more
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn read more
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" read more
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".