A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

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

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.

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

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 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).

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.