But a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down--very important traits in times l...ike these. In fact, just as soon as a dog comes along who, in addition to these qualities, also knows when to buy and sell stocks, he can be moved right up to the boy's bedroom and the boy can sleep in the dog house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any cr...edit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suppose someone has frequently flown in his dreams and finally becomes conscious of a power and an art of flying just as soon as h...e starts dreaming, as though it were his privilege, and also his most personal and enviable happiness: one who believes he can realize every sort of curve and angle with the lightest impulse, who knows the feeling of a certain divine frivolity, an "upwards" without tension or duress, a "downwards" without condescension and humiliation--without gravity! How could a man who enjoyed such dream-experiences and dream-habits fail to discover in the end that the word "happiness" was differently colored and defined in his waking hours as well? How could he fail to--desire happiness differently?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid dem...onstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore, wish for moderation, it will come to you, and even better, duly as you work and labor. "Indeed, but (you say) God could... have just as soon given me seventy-eight thousand as easily as the thirteenth part of one half. Because he is all powerful. A million in Gold is as easy for him as a penny." Ha, ha, has. And who taught you to make speeches on the power and predestination of God, my poor fellows?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors.... If they only knew... that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes of a terrific throat and tube trou...ble chooses that night for theater-going.... He will soon learn to pick his pauses with finesse. It does no good to cough while there is a great deal of noise going on on the stage. No one can hear. The time is just as the star is about to do a little low speaking to her dying lover or when the hero, alone in his garret, goes silently over to the fireplace and tears up the letter. There for a good rousing bark, my hearty, followed by a series of short sharp ones like those of a coxswain! If possible the appearance of apoplexy should be simulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faced with even a temporary delay or absence, children pound and scream and bawl; but as soon as the situation changes, they are b...afflingly sunny, and take their gratification with relish, or feel secure again when mother returns. It is said that "children cannot wait," but just the contrary is true. It is children who can wait, by making dramatic scenes (not otherwise than religious people get through hours of stress by singing hymns). They have a spontaneous mechanism to cushion even minor troubles. Rather it is the adults who have inhibited their spontaneous expression, who cannot wait; we swallow our disappointment and always taste what we have swallowed. For where the occasions of passion occur, where there is actual frustration and misery, and yet anger and grief are not explosively released, then the disposition itself is soured, and such happiness as follows is never full and unclouded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »