The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation..

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or….

Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare..

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub..

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

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child..

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime..

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly ….

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side..

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art..

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion..

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure..

Time is the thief you cannot banish..

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations..

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick..

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor..

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet..

For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions….

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair..

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the ca….

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish..