Katharine WhitehornAs ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.371Reflection
Katharine WhitehornThe disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.364Sadness
Katharine WhitehornThe Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.357Life
Katharine WhitehornThe easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.379Politics
Katharine WhitehornI yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.337Hope
Katharine WhitehornWhen it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.283Reading
Katharine WhitehornA good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.305Humor
Katharine WhitehornFind out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.339Humanity
Katharine WhitehornThere are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. ✨ The Observer, October 30, 1988.329Philosophy
Katharine WhitehornIn hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.297Philosophy
Katharine WhitehornI cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to we… ▶231HumanityLifeReading
Katharine WhitehornI am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.319HumanityLove
Katharine WhitehornFrom a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.287Time
Katharine WhitehornNo nice men are good at getting taxis. ✨ Observer 1977201Time
Katharine WhitehornPerennials 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.223Death
Katharine WhitehornChildren and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally. ✨ Rules for living: advice for every situation by Katharine Whitehorn, www.theguardian.com. Novem… ▶268Life
Katharine WhitehornHave you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?216Humor
Katharine WhitehornThe rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.183Humanity
Katharine WhitehornI wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one. ✨ 'Decoding the West' in 'Sunday Best' (19… ▶163Reading
Katharine WhitehornA food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. ✨ How to Survive Children207Life
Katharine WhitehornWhy do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time? ✨ Katharine Whitehorn (1981). View from a Column219HumanityTime
Katharine WhitehornAny committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ✨ Observations. Book by Katharine … ▶208HumanityReading
Katharine WhitehornIt's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.165Politics
Katharine WhitehornSpring makes everything look filthy.147Hope
Katharine WhitehornAmerican patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks th… ▶1510Politics
