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

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

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

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

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

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).

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.