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

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

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.

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

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

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

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.