Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .