One day my mother called me ... and she said, "Forty-nine million Americans saw you on television tonight. One of them is the fath...er of my future grandchild, but he's never going to call you because you wore your glasses."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of tw...o beer glasses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal health goes round.... Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high, Fill all the glasses there--for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eter...nal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives... and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat. The attention so recently strained on one object of interest, was now divided among a hundred; and, look where you would, there was a motley assemblage of feasting, talking, begging, gambling and mummery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or o...ther favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the motion-picture theater, the screen at rest is a neutral, shadowy blank; at rest, the fish-eye lens of the TV screen mirrors... the room over which it presides. In both, the images are luminous, lighted as though from within, but the motion-picture images hover on or just in front of the surface of the screen. The viewer moves toward inclusion; no need for those movie-palace stunts, those three-dimensional experiments when, bicolored glasses in place, we ducked the baseball flung at us or were frozen in our seats by the locomotive that roared out of the screen and over our heads. The TV image, by contrast, recedes into its box and includes us out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fifty-one years old today. Gray hairs are getting into my brow; hair grows perceptibly thinner, but no baldness yet. I read w...ithout glasses but my eyes inflame if I read or write many hours by lamplight; more fleshy and full stomached, with shorter breath; a few twinges of rheumatism; a fondness for a nap after dinner; teeth pretty good, but several plugged and a few gone, whiskers rapidly whitening. These are the symptoms of old age. On the other hand, a youthful and elastic spirit; fondness for all young people and their employments and amusements. A fresh, ruddy complexion and considerable physical strength and activity almost persuade me that I am still in my youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what I practise with mine eyes. By which wet glasses I find out... How lazily time creeps about To one that mourns: this, only this My exercise and bus'ness is: So I compute the weary hours With sighs dissolved into showers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »