Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.