But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.