Who said “Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really…”?

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”

“But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.”

“The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.”

“Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles — and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech — look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”

“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”

“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”