Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and ...hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old man from Darjeeling Who got on a bus bound for Ealing.... It said at the door, "Please don't spit on the floor," So he carefully spat on the ceiling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existe...nce of unfortunate people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ea...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eyes I shall not see unless At the door of death's other kingdom... Where, as in this, The eyes outlast a little while A little while outlast the tears And hold us in derision.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence,... And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll come up the steps to the house and the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he'll say, "Good evening, Mr. Younger...." And I'll say, "Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?" And I'll go inside and Ruth will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we'll kiss each other and she'll take my arm and we'll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of all the great schools in America around you.... All the great schools in the world! And--and I'll say, all right son--it's your seventeenth birthday, what is it you've decided?... Just tell me, what it is you want to be--and you'll be it.... Whatever you want to be--Yessir! You just name it, so ... and I hand you the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes they are little cats mewing and scratching at the door, sometimes they are her grandmother's voice,... and sometimes they are gigantic men of light whispering to her to get up, to get up, to get up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »