With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early child...hood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor ma...n named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a...r />metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Store closet it would be charming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suc...kers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must alwa...ys have the most money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by know...ing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only difference between a man and woman climbing the ladder of success is that a woman is expected to put it in the closet whe...n she's finished with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then, since that I may know, As liberally as to a midwife, show... Thyself: cast all, yea, this white linen hence, Here is no penance, much less innocence. To teach thee, I am naked first; why than, What needst thou have more covering than a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »