People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.