Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?
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