Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

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

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.

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

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

A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.

Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.