People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

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

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.

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

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.