Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhil...l. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the average (and you will look long and hard before finding anyone so aptly described) CB aficionado his radio is his hobby. A ...hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To give pleasure to a few wretched souls; the knowledge that human nature craves the good things of life, in terms of nourishment,... and needs beauty in form and color, as its companion; utilization of imagination and a long-suppressed love of the beautiful to conquer a difficult decorative problem; abiding faith that in all life two things alone are necessary, love and beauty, and that in business as well as elsewhere they are essential to a true success, and, adopted as a business principle will lead to success--these were the foundation stones on which this business, the result of twenty years of hard labor, was laid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no healt...h to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who a...re serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,... And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age,... as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole- star for a thousand years?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is hard to see. Less partial witnesses than he... In book on book have testified They could not see it from outside....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »