Clear? Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and get me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail... out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are bothered, I suppose, by the idea that you can't possibly believe in miracles and mysteries, and therefore can't make a go...od wife for Hazard. You might just as well make yourself unhappy by doubting whether you would make a good wife to me because you can't believe the first axiom in Euclid. There is no science which does not begin by requiring you to believe the incredible."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is ...a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to ...see you, and you can't go home again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue.... Moreover this activity ...must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in our...s. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »