What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.Mark Twain
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.Friedrich Nietzsche
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.Oscar Wilde