I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.