We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.