[T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, "We have heard sever...al of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You haf slafed your life away in de bosses' mills and your fadhers before you and your kids after you yet. Vat is a man to do with... seventeen-fifty a week? His wife must work nights to make another ten, must vork nights and cook and wash in day an' vatfor? So that the bosses can get rich an' the stockholders and bondholders. It is too much... ve stood it before because ve vere not organized. Now we have union... We must all stand together for union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can think of many amusing parallels. For example, "the Borough of ... announces: Miss Jones, the splendid principal of our gramm...ar school, has been offered the position of cook and housekeeper by the family next door, and so we feel obliged to dismiss her and make room for one of the young girls just graduated from training college. Miss Jones may not care to be a cook but since she has that privilege we don't think it right for her to continue to teach, valuable as her services are to the community." Or, "the Educational Committee of ... Borough has adopted a rule to employ no more men teachers who have vegetable gardens, and to notify those men now in its employ who possess vegetable gardens or are contemplating acquiring one that they will be dismissed. We are actuated by the following reasons: (1) The place of a man with a vegetable garden is at home working in his garden. (2) We feel, as a general rule, that a man with a vegetable garden will, to some extent, suffer in his efficiency as a teacher. We have no evidence of this; in fact the vegetable gardeners whom we are about to dismiss are among our best teachers, but nevertheless, we feel that as a general policy our rule is sound from an educational standpoint. (3) A man with a garden will not starve. Therefore, it is unfair to continue paying him a salary as a teacher while men who have no vegetable gardens are waiting for posts [ellipses in original].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancybrig,... And a bos'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!"'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will eat, bye and bye, When you've learned how to cook and to fry;... Chop some wood, 'twill do you good, And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and... Rome--not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mary Kate Danaher: Don't touch me. You have no right. Sean Thornton: Whadya mean no right!... Mary Kate Danaher: I'll wear your ring, I'll cook and I'll wash. And I'll keep the land, but that is all. Until I've got my dowry safe about me, I'm no married woman. I'm the servant I have always been without anything of my own. Sean Thornton: That's ridiculous. You're my wife--and--what is this? Mary Kate Danaher: Haven't I been tryin' to tell you. That until you have my dowry, you haven't got any bit of me--me myself. I'll still be dreamin' amongst the things that are my own, as if I have never met you. There's 300 years of happy dreamin' in those things of mine, and I want them. I want my dream. I'll have it and I know. And I'll say no other word to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time... Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on th' event-- A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward--I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do 't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me if I betray him ...to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that it... is our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »