Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.