The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The inno...cence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion--or a new form of Christianity--based on faith in financial mi...racles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing like the fun of having brothers, if there is no rivalry.... There is nothing like the fun of summer rains, if there is no mud. There is nothing like the fun of gambling, if there is no loss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was this practical sense and cool will that won over Mrs. Lee, who was woman enough to assume that all the graces were well eno...ugh employed in decorating her, and it was enough if the other sex felt her superiority. Men were valuable only in proportion to their strength and their appreciation of women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of i...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never wanted to live an unembellished life, and I have never done it.... Living under such a compulsion has been like painting p...ictures of life, and I don't take kindly to suggestions that I might have been less egotistically employed had I become a trained nurse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »