A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.