Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is... to make a hole in one with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late ...to alter events, or to make a difference in living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have a responsibility to "make a difference" in the legal system and the administration of justice. My hope is that when histor...ians assess the impact of this early wave of successful women entering all corners of the legal profession, they will not find us wanting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now only a dent in the earth marks the site of these dwellings, with buried cellar stones, and strawberries, raspberries, thimble-...berries, hazel-bushes, and sumachs growing in the sunny sward there.... These cellar dents, like deserted fox burrows, old holes, are all that is left where once were the stir and bustle of human life, and "fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute," in some form and dialect or other were by turns discussed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to m...ake a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rel...y on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But remember please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie,... We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »