A fact is like a sack--it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feeli...ngs that caused it in the first place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,... forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict...r />themselves to sack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet, The lank man, knotty and tough as a hickory rail,... Whose hands were always too big for white-kid gloves, Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales, Whose weathered face was homely as a plowed field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,... We'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, We'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, We'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had gained, you outleapt them;... a sudden, swift lift of the reins, a sudden, swift, taut grip of the reins, as suddenly loosed, you had gained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding,... the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the mediaeval, with dimmer ...vision, worshipped as asceticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »