The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

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

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

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

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