Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.