article · Issue No. 8, August 1949 · p. 47

Quips

طرائف

● This world is woman's world!... A man is born, and people ask: "How is the mother?" When he grows up and marries, they say: "How beautiful the bride is." Then he dies, and they say: "I wonder how much he left his wife?"

● The best medicine for a broken heart is to have it broken a second time...

● A lady asked "Somerset Maugham" how she could decide whether she loved a certain man or not. He said to her: "If you do not shrink from using his toothbrush, then you truly love him."

● Kisses may not spread microbes, but without a doubt they weaken the resistance.

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