A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat ... but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage ...in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, dau...ghter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
those far-fet helps be such As do bewray a want of inward touch,... and sure at length stolen goods do come to light. But if, both for your love and skill, your name You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame, Stella behold, and then begin to indite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad; O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad:... Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad, O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased,... The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from... me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those great ideas which come to you in your sleep just before you awake in morning, those solutions to the world's problems which,... in the light of day, turn out to be duds of the puniest order, couldn't they be put to some use, after all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the evening my wife insisted to read this journal, and, finding in it such explicit instances of licentiousness, she was much a...ffected and told me that she had come to a resolution never again to consider herself my wife; though for the sake of her children and mine, as a friend, she would preserve appearances. When I saw her in great uneasiness, and dreaded somewhat--though not with much apprehension--her resolution, I was awaked from my dream of licentiousness, and saw my bad conduct in a shocking light.... She comforted me with hopes of my amendment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass.... As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th' Eclipse of Sun, Or dreadful Comet, he hath done By inward Light, a way as good,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »