Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by... believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which... it lives on as a limiting case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange f...or a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could make out a good case for specially protecting men. It is time some attention was paid to vital statistics. More boys are b...orn than girls, yet more girls survive. There are always more widows than widowers, there are two million more women than men. In other words, woman's survival rate is greater than man's, and women are getting stronger all the time. If either sex needs protection, it would seem to be the men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds that left her quite nude... Saw a man come along And, unless I am wrong, You expected this line to be rude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In general a thing is romantic when, as Aristotle would say, it is wonderful rather than probable; in other words, when it violate...s the normal sequence of cause and effect in favor of adventure. Here is the fundamental contrast between the words classic and romantic which meets us at the outset and in some form or other persists in all uses of the word down to the present day. A thing is romantic when it is strange, unexpected, intense, superlative, extreme, unique, etc. A thing is classical, on the other hand, when it is not unique, but representative of a class. In this sense, medical men may speak correctly of a classic case of typhoid fever, or a classic case of hysteria. One is even justified in speaking of a classic example of romanticism. By an easy extension of meaning a thing is classical when it belongs to a high class or to the best class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madame Pertelote, my worldes bliss, Harkneth these blissful birdes how they sing,... And see the freshe flowers how they spring; Full is mine heart of revel and solace!' But suddenly him fell a sorrowful case, For ever the latter end of joy is woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive vi...olin it held has broken and lost its worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mo...ther, drunk or sober."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourse...lves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »