An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Booth Tarkington