People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

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

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.

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.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.