Occupation: Author Birth: February 25, 1918 Death: October 20, 2007
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed..
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix..
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long..
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo..
You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about..
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it..
It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don'….
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something e….
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever..
it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be,….
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't r….
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the cas….
It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be..
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk..