At each minute we are crushed by the idea and the feeling of time. And there are only two ways to escape this nightmare, Mto forge...t it: pleasure and work. Pleasure wears us out. Work fortifies us. Let's choose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. O...ver all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words "house" and "home" are a shorthand for two ways of thinking about the family, but it needs to be pointed out that they d...id not go through history as a pair. "House" is almost a dead word, used today only to refer to things grand and historical. People in the past did not use "home" in the emotionally loaded way we do. The Romance languages do not even have an equivalent word for "home" and have to call other words into service for expressing the modern concept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Major [William] McKinley visited me. He is on a stumping tour.... I criticized the bloody-shirt course of the canvass. It seems to... me to be bad "politics," and of no use.... It is a stale issue. An increasing number of people are interested in good relations with the South.... Two ways are open to succeed in the South: 1. A division of the white voters. 2. Education of the ignorant. Bloody-shirt utterances prevent division.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man, said Birkin, cuts another man's throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cutting. This is a com...plete truth. It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee.... And a man who is murderable is a man who has in a profound if hidden lust desires to be murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, le...t the nice things come out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cu...ltured, the other by being corrupt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »