Your child...may not call you or other people names.... Don't be tempted to gloss over this issue. You may be able to talk to your...self into not minding being called names, but this decision may come back to haunt you in later years. If you let a preschooler speak disrespectfully to you now, you'll have a much harder time of it when your child is a preteen and the issue resurfaces, which it is likely to do then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we are, that only can we see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do. Adam called his house, heaven an...d earth; Caesar called his house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, a cobbler's trade; a hundred acres of ploughed land; or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names. Build, therefore, your own world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the universe has three children, born at one time, which reappear, under different names, in every system of thought, whether ...they be called cause, operation, and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune; or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son; but which we will call here, the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm a priest, not a priestess.... "Priestess" implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love... to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world--it's better than being invisible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is one thing to live, another to philosophize. When therefore the question is about the conduct of our lives, and the performan...ce of our duty, we cease to be philosophers, to be opponents, doubtful or uncertain; and become poor, simple credulous idiots; we call things by their names, and re-assume our understanding and manners; we conform our manners to those of other men, and to their laws and customs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them re...gister their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poore...st when you are richest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill. Would... it not tax a man's invention,--no one to be named after a man, and all in the lingua vernacula? Who shall stand godfather at the christening of the wild apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in the sunrise and the sunset, the rainbow and the autumn woods and the wild-flowers, and the woodpecker and the purple finch and the squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the November traveler and the truant boy, to our aid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »