it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.