One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you're going to be movi...ng to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I'll take care of you. I said, "Go."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Forget dating. Forget striking a balance between work and family. Most single parents, whether they are divorced, widowed, or sing...le by choice, report that discipline is by far the toughest issue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemoti...onal deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, love, love--all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures..., a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered for... a head cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dating at least from ancient Rome, the holiday was a time of public and communal celebration, a time to commemorate some event of ...civic or religious significance that all citizens participated in equally. The set of holidays observed by a given community was a way of defining that community. Each holiday, with its unique history and set of rituals, connected the members of a community to one another, and to the community's collective past. The holiday was fundamentally noneconomic in character. Everyone participated, independent of economic circumstances.... In contrast, the vacation is thoroughly private and economic. People negotiate for paid vacations with their employers. They decide whether to spend their money on vacations or on things, in a way that they never would with holidays. Imagine asking whether to buy a new car or celebrate Easter. The point of a vacation is not to join in celebration with other members of the community but to escape it--at least for a while. People take vacations for a change of scene, and they take them alone, or just with their families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating. ...The more topical the play the more it dates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existen...ce on the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have used these weeks to "transvaluate values."MDo you understand this trope?--At bottom, the goldmaker is the most worthy human... type there is: I mean him who out of next to nothing, out of what is despicable, makes something valuable, even gold. He alone enriches, the others only exchange. My task is absolutely singular this time: I have asked myself what it is that has been must hated, feared, and despised by mankind up to now--and out of this I have made my "gold."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »