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Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ...

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

A celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English ...

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

The most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

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.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.