You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great... and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thru all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing.... It sounds and echoes in my soul; How can I keep from singing?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can teach prevention. For little kids, the best protection is that they should not be alone in public places. All children shou...ld be conscious of strangers, and be discriminating and wary of them. This won't make them grow up suspicious as long as they have adults around whom they know and can trust: relatives, friends of their parents, parents of friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All that a pacifist can undertake--but it is a very great deal--is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to anoth...er human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing ...them a higher one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sure characteristic of a sound and strong mind is, to find, in everything, those certain bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit con...sistere rectum. These boundaries are marked out by a very fine line, which only good sense and attention can discover; it is much too fine for vulgar eyes. In manners, this line is good breeding; beyond it, is troublesome ceremony; short of it, is unbecoming negligence and inattention. In morals, it divides ostentatious Puritanism from criminal relaxation; in religion, superstition from impiety; and, in short, every virtue from its kindred vice or weakness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous syste...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, cha...grin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »