It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.