People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.