A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.