Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

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.

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

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

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

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.