"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"Angry people are not always wise."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."