When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.