Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,--a work ...at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was an old woman and she lived in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.... She crumm'd 'em some porridge without any bread And she borrowed a beetle, and she knocked 'em all on the head. Then out went the old woman to bespeak 'em a coffin And when she came back she found' em all a-loffing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lock in! Be alert, my acrobat and I will be soft wood and you the nail... and we will make fiery ovens for Jack Sprat and you will hurl yourself into my tiny jail and we will take a supper together and that will be that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.... She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis'e-ra, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ransom Stoddard: I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna gun. I don't wanna kill 'em. I wanna put 'em in jail. Tom Donophon: Well, I... know those law books mean a lot to you. But not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems. Ransom Stoddard: No. Do, do you know what you're saying to me? D'you know? You're saying exactly what Liberty Valance said. What kind of community have I come to. You all seem to know about this fellow Liberty Valance. He's a no-good, gun-packing murdering thief. But the only advice you can give to me is to carry a gun. Well, I'm a lawyer. Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law. And the law is the only, the only.... [he collapses]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell f...or those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave;... Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in ...jail in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »