O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.