... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and tri...gonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lo...st track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off--you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the waiting head doing? It looks the same. Will it lean forward as I turn to go?... I think I can hear it call to me below but no one came no one came.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong.... He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles. His watchword is always Duty; and he never forgets that the nation which lets its duty get on the opposite side to its interest is lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If my head hurt a hair's foot Pack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breath... Bump on a spout let the bubbles jump out...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »