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 »
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. ...Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear m...an, a dear person. He is a rather quaint fellow on the whole, coy though not feebleminded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt of pure Irish manufacture winter and summer and scourges himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous child. I appeal for clemency in the name of the most sacred word our vocal organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in... the world, and there was nothing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung... With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells, Each under each.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must ...eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier, or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn... what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there's another knowledge that my heart destroys As the fox in the old fable destroyed the Spartan boy's... Because it proves that things both can and cannot be; That the swordsmen and the ladies can still keep company; Can pay the poet for a verse and hear the fiddle sound, That I am still their servant though all are underground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »