The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.
We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.
What’s for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter.
Theatre audiences can’t be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
Nobody knows the trouble we’ve seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.