I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle..

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born..

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the p….

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down..

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens..

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry..

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to d….

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk..

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either..

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs..

Work is a form of nervousness..

The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School ….

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into ….

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair i….

Streets full of water. Please Advise..

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done well….

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria..

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine..

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when….

I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway statio….

Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous th….