There is no kind of false Wit which has been so recommended by the Practice of all Ages, as that which consists in a Jingle of Wor...ds, and is comprehended under the general Name of Punning. It is indeed impossible to kill a Weed, which the Soil has a natural Disposition to produce. The seeds of Punning are in the Minds of all Men, and tho' they may be subdued by Reason, Reflection, and good Sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest Genius, that is not broken and cultivated by the Rules of Art. Imitation is natural to us, and when it does not raise the Mind to Poetry, Painting, Musick, or other more noble Arts, it often breaks out in Punns and Quibbles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I change, and so do women too; But I reflect--which women seldom do.... Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil doth proceed; That drains your purse, that burns your clothes, That makes a chimney of your nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back... Where it's rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rise. Let us combine. There are no magics or elves... Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Merrily swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his litle dame,... Over the mountainside or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As to the bride, she is blithe as the month; if one can compare in any degree a weed of December, with the fragrance of May; for a... weed in truth it is, and a weed not in its first prime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-lo...oking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him ... as I have ever seen in any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »