What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

I am trying to sell beauty.Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don’t know anything, but because they don’t know what they don’t know!

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky You can bet that he's doing it for some doll.

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.