You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

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

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.