When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.