everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.