One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more respon...sible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well- proportioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good-bye, good luck, struck the sun and the moon, To the fisherman lost on the land.... He stands alone at the door of his home, With his long-legged heart in his hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70--has ...the misfortune to be humpbacked, crooked legged, and rather deformed in his face.--But, in sober sadness, I am delighted with the Dean of Coleraine, whose picture this is, and which I have very lately read. The piety, the zeal, the humanity, goodness and humility of this charming old man have won my heart. Ah! who will not envy him the invaluable treasure!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds.... The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood. The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing. He answered, he was not, for he had pretty well told the world what he knew..., and must now read to acquire more knowledge.... Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well."--Johnson observed to me, upon this, that "No man could have paid a handsomer compliment; and it was fit for a King to pay. It was decisive." When asked ... whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, "No, Sir. When the King had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "charac...ter issues." Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old- fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of th...e universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »