One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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We'll make sure there's enough in that account to purchase health insurance coverage.
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want- an adorable pancreas?
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The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas
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I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it do...
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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
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I would like him to be playing regularly in the Celtic team. Aiden's got fantastic ability, but he needs to get the strength to play international football.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
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He had delusions of adequacy.
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I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
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A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
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