Who said “France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the…”?

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”

“You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.”

“The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.”

“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”

“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”

“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

“When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.”

“What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.”