There is, I confess, a hazard to the philosophical analysis of humor. If one rereads the passages that have been analyzed, one may... no longer be able to laugh at them. This is an occupational hazard: Philosophy is taking the laughter out of humor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states... All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"You are bothered, I suppose, by the idea that you can't possibly believe in miracles and mysteries, and therefore can't make a go...od wife for Hazard. You might just as well make yourself unhappy by doubting whether you would make a good wife to me because you can't believe the first axiom in Euclid. There is no science which does not begin by requiring you to believe the incredible."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the yo...ung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous b...alance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What cannot stand must fall; and the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wea...lth we will hazard in the defence of our right. An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: "No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.'s, the Putting Husband Throughs, young women who with high hopes ...work for years to earn money for their husbands' doctorates. Year after year they slave on, often forced to forgo bearing children until it is too late, sacrificing pleasures and recreation for the pot of gold at the end of the gaily alluring rainbow--a doctorate pinned on a man who has renounced the amenities and comforts of life, already the victim of occupational desiccation when he gets his medal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously... dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. To the average man, doomed to some banal drudgery all his life long, they offer the only grand hazard that he ever encounters. Take them away, and his existence would be as flat and secure as that of a moo-cow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I writ...e. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »