Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.

Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know what you're worrying about. I thought you were very funny last night and I'm sure everybody else did, too.

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

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.