The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.