Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

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