Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
From Jean Kerr
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
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