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

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.