The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

When Why not do it? barely outweighs Why do it? -- don't do it.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!