A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and... shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only following out nature. As a child, I never cared for things that girls usually do; dolls never possessed any charms for ...me. I couldn't see the sense of cuddling bits of porcelain with senseless faces; the only things I wanted were a jack-knife, a gimlet, and pieces of wood. My friends were horrified.... I sighed sometimes, because I was not like other girls, but wisely concluded that I couldn't help it, and sought further consolation from my tools.... I was famous for my kites; and my sleds were the envy and admiration of all the boys in town. I'm not surprised at what I've done. I'm only sorry I couldn't have had as good a chance as a boy, and have been put to my trade regularly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any image' ... Every image is a sin.... When you lo...ve someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating ...back to them, poisoned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If t...hey did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the quest...ions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out the...re. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not... make a speech, he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »