Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons d...ining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being... good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze... Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet Dance sedately; face to face they gaze, Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the county there are thirty-seven churches and no butcher shop. This could be taken... as a matter of all form and no content.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breed ...cattle with all cows and no bulls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foreigner coming to these shores is more impressed at first by our sky-scrapers. They are new to him. He has not done anything... of the sort since he built the tower of Babel. The foreigner is shocked by them. In the daylight they are ugly. They are--well, too chimneyfied and too snaggy--like a mouth that needs attention from a dentist; like a cemetery that is all monuments and no gravestones. But at night, seen from the river where they are columns towering against the sky, all sparkling with light, they are fairylike; they are beauty more satisfactory to the soul than anything man has dreamed of since the Arabian nightsLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »