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If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.
Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.
The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.
Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.
A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.
Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.
Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.
The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies.
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.
We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.
Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.