Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.