People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.