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Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Despair is anger with no place to go.
Men gossip less than women, but mean it.
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it
No woman wants to see herself too clearly.
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.
The plague of government is senile delinquency.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.
Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
The next voice you hear will undoubtedly be your own.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.
At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
