If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

oh how television diminishes everything.