What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.