*Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

*Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

*We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

*No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

*The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.

*The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

*Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

*I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

*I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

*If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

*As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

*Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

*A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

*The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.