Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money.

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.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

No nice men are good at getting taxis.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.