don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

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

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.