If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."

"The battle to keep up appearances unnecessarily, the mask -- whatever name you give creeping perfectionism -- robs us of our energies."

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day."

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered ...Read more