In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Quote by Florence King

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Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to...

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to...

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying...

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying...

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the...

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the...

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they...

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they...

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all...

Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all...

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism...

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism...

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo...

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's...

Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat

Golf is tiddlywinks played while standing up and and wearing a hat

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or...

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting...

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting...

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless...

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless...

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism...

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism...

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is...

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is...