It's a bad town to bring an appetite to, soldier. We've been here since yesterday morning and we've been living on boiled hay and ...razor blades.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life ...than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into... my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow... dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: MIntroibo ad altare Dei.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, Whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at mo...rn; And here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin In tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
see the shaky future grow familiar in the pinched, indigenous faces... of these thoroughbred mental cases, twice my age and half my weight. We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it mys...elf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cold slicing the windowpane like a razor blade... for God, it seems, has turned his backside to us, giving us the dark negative, the death wing....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a tongue like a razor he will kiss, the mother, the child,... and we three will color the stars black in memory of his mother who kept him chained to the food tree or turned him on and off like a water faucet....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »