Cow and horse dung, as muck goes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grai...n, and on the far side of their smell there is hay and grass. Chicken shit is disagreeable and rasps the throat because of the quantity of ammonia. When you are cleaning out the henhouse, you're glad to go to the door and take a deep breath of fresh air. Pig and human excrement, however, smell the worst because men and pigs are carnivorous and their appetites are indiscriminate. The smell includes the sickeningly sweet one of decay. And on the far side of it is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hume, and other skeptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient f...ood to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish, said Mr. [Fulke] Greville, men would not pretend to write of what they cannot be masters of. Another country--it is imposs...ible they can be judges; and they ought not to aim at it--for they have different sensations, are used to different laws, manners and things, and consequently are habituated to different thoughts and ideas--'tis the same as if a cow was to write of a horse--or a horse of a cow--why they would proceed on quite different principles, and therefore certainly could be no judge of one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do not think the Gh...ost of Alexander, or Caesar, had any just cause to be offended; or any body else, but the Historian. If Livy say the Gods made once a Cow speak, and we believe it not; we distrust not God therein, but Livy. So that it is evident, that whatsoever we believe, upon no other reason, then what is drawn from authority of men only, and their writings; whether they be sent from God or not, is Faith in men only.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. Truth will not afford sufficient f...ood to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to errour. Truth, sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously... dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. To the average man, doomed to some banal drudgery all his life long, they offer the only grand hazard that he ever encounters. Take them away, and his existence would be as flat and secure as that of a moo-cow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives on... the sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to... enact the needful laws themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men all of us--we've got to be. You know why? I'll give you two good reasons. We jump out of planes, and guys shoot at us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »