Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it. — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share
