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

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

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

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

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.