A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a l...eg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our culture still holds mothers almost exclusively responsible when things go wrong with the kids. Sensing this ultimate accountab...ility, women are understandably reluctant to give up control or veto power. If the finger of blame was eventually going to point in your direction, wouldn't you be?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They give us a pair of cloth shorts twice a year for all our clothing. When we work in the sugar mills and catch our finger in the... millstone, they cut off our hand; when we try to run away, they cut off our leg: both things have happened to me. It is at this price that you eat sugar in Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give blue-eyed men their swivel chairs To whirl in tall buildings.... Allow them many ships at sea, And on land, soldiers And policemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does ...upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give my regards to Broadway, Remember me to Herald Square,... Tell all the gang at Forty-second Street That I will soon be there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »