Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one sing...le deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one call...ing in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what tho...se two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respect ...the natural parenting talents that each of you has, you may inadvertently cast the two of you into the skewed but complementary roles of the Expert and the Dumb Apprentice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ecstatic love of a young writer for the old writer he will be some day is ambition in its most laudable form. This love is not... reciprocated by the older man in his larger library, for even if he does recall with regret a naked palate and a rheumless eye, he has nothing but an impatient shrug of contempt for the bungling apprentice of his youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lena Aysgarth: Johnnie, there's going to be no more borrowing. Johnnie Aysgarth: Well, what else is there to do?... Lena: You've got to go to work. Johnnie: Work! Lena: Yes, work. Johnnie: You mean put on old clothes, go out with a shovel. Lena: Oh, don't be flippant. Johnnie: Well, what do you mean? I'm afraid you're a bit of a dreamer darling. Let's be practical about this. Do you know statistics on unemployment? Do you realize that in order to be a plumber or a carpenter or an electrician, darling you haven't been around, they have to be an apprentice first, even after that--oh darling!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire, Full well I served my master for more than seven year,... Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear: Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of black ...all over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »