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

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

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).

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).

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

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

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