There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked hi...m "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Away with the cant of "Measures, not men!"Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot al...ong. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in my life of which... I am the most proud, yes, sir!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments is in operation, not the install...ment plan, no sir, but a system of small postpossession payments that clinch the investment. No possible rational human wish unfulfilled. A man with a salary of fifty dollars a week can start payments on a Rolls-Royce, the Waldorf-Astoria, or a troupe of trained seals if he so desires.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, "Boy, where's the pos...t office?" "I don't know." "Well, then, where might the drugstore be?" "I don't know." "How about a good cheap hotel?" "I don't know." "Say, boy, you don't know much, do you?" "No, sir, I sure don't. But I ain't lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suggested a doubt, that if I were to reside in London, the exquisite zest with which I relished it in occasional visits might go... off, and I might grow tired of it. JOHNSON. " ... No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing. He answered, he was not, for he had pretty well told the world what he knew..., and must now read to acquire more knowledge.... Johnson said, he thought he had already done his part as a writer. "I should have thought so too, (said the King,) if you had not written so well."--Johnson observed to me, upon this, that "No man could have paid a handsomer compliment; and it was fit for a King to pay. It was decisive." When asked ... whether he made any reply to this high compliment, he answered, "No, Sir. When the King had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of... friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. "No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern.... No, Sir; there is nothing which ...has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;... for there is in London all that life can afford.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »