Why don't you put something on the phonograph, a low-down mean blue. Play it over and over again until you crack it and get sick o...f it and then go back to work. I do it all the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma...rking, in the lifetimes of many generations; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of the survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our armchairs of an afternoon--the most favored alternative method.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same cl...ass of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties and sections.... I had a strong and comforting faith that I should be able to organize and conduct an Administration which would satisfy and win the country. This faith never deserted me. I had it before either the election or the nomination. Doubtless it was founded on my experience. I have often said that I never fail to gain the confidence and friendship of those I wish to win, if I have time and an opportunity to do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, fro...m Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer takes Jill down the well and all the king's horses... and all the king's men can't put that little girl together again crooked man crooked man pumpkin eater childhood stealer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have... in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He'd gone to great expense Keeping all the Kerry men... Out of that crazy fight; That he might be there himself Had travelled half the night. How goes the weather?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »