Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone t...o say that and chew gum at the same time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have no word for soldiers to enjoy The feel of, as an apple, and to chew... With masculine satisfaction. Not "good-by!" "Come back!"or "careful!" Look, and let him go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because ...she's tired of liftin' that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin' him on the sofa so he won't catch cold. Tonight we're for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We're goin' to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Warren G. Harding invented the word "normalcy," And the lesser-known "bloviate," meaning, one imagines,... To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my... army is starving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent.... Such as are between both (which is the most common fashi...on), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the stumbling of a horse, the fall of a tile, the slightest pin prick, let us promptly chew on this: Well, what if it were deat...h itself? And thereupon let us stiffen and fortify ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Adolescence, O Adolescence I wince before thine incandescence . . .... When anxious elders swarm about Crying "Where are you going?", thou answerest "Out," . . . Strewn! All is lost and nothing found Lord, how thou leavest things around! . . . Ah well, I must not carp and cavil I'll chew the spinach, spit out the gravel, Remembering how my heart has leapt At times when me thou didst accept Still, I'd like to be present, I must confess, When thine own adolescents adolesce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »