Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.