On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.