When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.