'Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.... Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hamlet. To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till a... find it stopping a bung-hole? Horatio. 'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What though he did not belong to your clique! Though you may not approve of his method or his principles, recognize his magnanimit...y. Would you not like to claim kindredship with him in that, though in no other thing he is like, or likely, to you? Do you think that you would lose your reputation so? What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The houses are from five to seven feet high, and all built upon one arbitrary plan--the ungraceful form of a dry-goods box. The si...des are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very pleasing effect. When the artist has arranged his materials with an eye to just proportion--the small and the large flakes in alternate rows, and separated by carefully-considered intervals--I know of nothing more cheerful to look upon than a spirited Syrian fresco. Nothing in this world has such a charm for me as to stand and gaze for hours and hours upon the inspired works of these old masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman stat...e of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »