Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.