One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you're going to be movi...ng to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I'll take care of you. I said, "Go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forget dating. Forget striking a balance between work and family. Most single parents, whether they are divorced, widowed, or sing...le by choice, report that discipline is by far the toughest issue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, c...oncentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemoti...onal deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, love, love--all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures..., a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dating at least from ancient Rome, the holiday was a time of public and communal celebration, a time to commemorate some event of ...civic or religious significance that all citizens participated in equally. The set of holidays observed by a given community was a way of defining that community. Each holiday, with its unique history and set of rituals, connected the members of a community to one another, and to the community's collective past. The holiday was fundamentally noneconomic in character. Everyone participated, independent of economic circumstances.... In contrast, the vacation is thoroughly private and economic. People negotiate for paid vacations with their employers. They decide whether to spend their money on vacations or on things, in a way that they never would with holidays. Imagine asking whether to buy a new car or celebrate Easter. The point of a vacation is not to join in celebration with other members of the community but to escape it--at least for a while. People take vacations for a change of scene, and they take them alone, or just with their families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating. ...The more topical the play the more it dates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the universe all cut and dri...ed,--very dry, I assure you, to hear, dry enough to burn, dry-rotted and powder-post, methinks,--which they set up between you and them in the shortest intercourse; an ancient and tottering frame with all its boards blown off. They do not walk without their bed. Some, to me, seemingly very unimportant and unsubstantial things and relations are for them everlastingly settled,--as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the like. These are like the everlasting hills to them. But in all my wanderings I never came across the least vestige of authority for these things. They have not left so distinct a trace as the delicate flower of a remote geological period on the coal in my grate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Greeks would not have called the ocean atrugetos, or unfruitful, though it does not produce wheat, if they had viewed it by th...e light of modern science, for naturalists now assert that "the sea, and not the land, is the principal seat of life,"Mthough not of vegetable life.... The dry land itself came through and out of the water in its way to the heavens, for, "in going back through the geological ages, we come to an epoch when, according to all appearances, the dry land did not exist, and when the surface of our globe was entirely covered with water." We looked on the sea, then, once more, not as atrugetos, or unfruitful, but as it has been more truly called, the "laboratory of continents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existen...ce on the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »