To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has "never had a chance, ...poor devil," you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are various forms of the disease which the victim is unable to say "No." Some of these forms are more serious than others, a...nd often lead to electrocution or marriage.... "No-phobia" reaches its height of futility when someone is giving you directions as to how to reach some place that you really want to reach.... The result is, I spend the night crashing up and down the wrong streets and am known as a boor who never arrives on time. And all because I didn't have the guts to say, "I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here among the mountains the pinions of thought should be strong, and one should see the errors of men from a calmer height of lov...e and wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who... are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Golden Rule furnishes the true solution of many difficult problems in government and society. Bishop [Atticus G.] Haygood, an ...ex-slaveholder and an ex-Confederate soldier, has given us the best book on the negro question. The title of his work ... tells the whole story: "Our Brother in Black." When reformers, religious teachers, and statesmen, and the general public lift themselves up to the height of the argument contained in that pithy title, there will no longer be a negro problem, nor a problem of capital and labor, nor any question as to the treatment of the criminal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days..., the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as a...n adult, in order to deny him consolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose that an inhabitant of Venus or Mars were to contemplate us from the height of a mountain, and watch the little black speck...s that we form in space, as we come and go in the streets and squares of our towns. Would the mere sight of our movements, our buildings, machines, and canals, convey to him any precise idea of our morality, intellect, our manner of thinking and loving, and hoping--in a word, of our real and intimate self? All he could do, like ourselves when we gaze at the hive, would be to take note of some facts that seem very surprising; and from these facts to deduce conclusions probably no less erroneous, no less uncertain, than those we choose to form concerning the bee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proud Aegyptian Queen, her Roman guest, (T'express her love in height of state, and pleasure)... With pearl dissolv'd in gold did feast,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us,--the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to ...a man's stature as to his happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »