I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

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

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on every vacation.

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