Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes ...us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Are you cold too, poor Pleiads, This frosty night?"... "Yes, and so are the Hyads: See us cuddle and hug," says the Pleiads, "All six in a ring: it keeps us warm: We huddle together like birds in a storm:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And to your more bewitching, see the proud, Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,... Tempting the two too modest; can Ye see it brustle like a swan, And you be cold To meet it when it woos and seems to fold The arms to hug you? Throw, throw Yourselves into the mighty overflow Of that white pride, and drown The night with you in floods of down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children's infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or... getting married!" That's total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art "scientific" parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy an...d modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My old Father used to have a saying that "If you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter"; and it occurs to me, that if the bargain... you have just closed [marriage] can possibly be called a bad one, it is certainly the most pleasant one for applying that maxim to, which my fancy can, by any effort, picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that... we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family.... We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fine way to treat their grandfather. No hug, no kiss, no anything. I don't blame them. Any man who'd put Santa Claus on trial for ...lunacy ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »