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

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

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

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

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

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.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.