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Author: Katharine Whitehorn
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 done.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Activities
Work
Offices
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they’d never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Beliefs
Religion
Born-again
A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Communication
Health
Speech
Listening
Sore throat
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
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Things
Flowers
Gardening
Perennials
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Appearance
Clothing
Housework
Clean
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Children
Food/Drink
Dislike
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Children
Family
Money
Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Age
Money
Young
Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Appearance
Body
Fat
Men
People
Sex
Women
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Men
People
Taxi cabs
There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a handgun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
America
Arms
Situations
Things
Cigarettes
Gun
I used to think the only use for it [sport] was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Sports
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they’ll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
America
Children
Family
Marriage
Parents
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Money
Christmas
Any 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.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
People
Time
Committees
Children and [zippers] do not respond to force… except occasionally.
Katharine Whitehorn
(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist
Children
Family
Things
Zippers