Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.
Rose MacaulayOnly one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
Rose MacaulayNever approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.
Rose MacaulayOnce learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.
Rose Macaulay