Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."