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

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

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.

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.

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

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.