the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

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

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

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.

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.

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

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