Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.