Time is the thief you cannot banish.

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

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.

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

I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.