To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?