Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.