The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

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.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

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.

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.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.