In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

She sleeps alone at last.