If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfully wise men - who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. …

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up …

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a…

The gap from our first meeting to living together was less than a year. He proposed, though I am too embarrassed to say how.