Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

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.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.