People From New York State

"Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud."

"The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for."

"The family unit is man's noblest device for being bored."

"One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week."

"If you had an unhappy childhood, you will always want to sleep late in the morning."

"We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so."

"There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults."

"A childhood can be judged sheltered or not according to which was learned first, the four-letter word or the euphemism."

"When children are bored, it reflects on us all."

"In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own."

"Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later."

"Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once."

"True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive."

"If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well."

"The time to begin most things is ten years ago."

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

"Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone."

"If he suddenly falls in love with someone else, a husband may not start wanting a divorce; but if he suddenly makes a lot of money, he usually will."

"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."

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

"There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi."

"Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition."

"The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings."

"It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time."

"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice."

"Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves."

"My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?"

"A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him."

"The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so."

"I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine."

"On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not."

"Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity and always its result."

"If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject."

"Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed."

"Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us."

"We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling."

"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain."

"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."

"What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly."

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

"It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."

"If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream."