Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.

The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

It's very ugly' I said generously. 'But it looks as though it would laugh at snow. And, if you hit a deer it would hiccup, and keep going.

When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.