When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.