This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Man | Need | Order | Woman | Understand |
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Good | Man | Reputation | Woman | Understand |
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Happy | Love | Man | Woman | Understand |
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Man | Money | Reputation | World |
Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
Woman |
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath.
Woman |