A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked i...
Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.
Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."