We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while ...they are being overloaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you are rich, always remember the days when you were poor, so that there won't be poor times when you have to recall the days... when you were rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In times of plenty you always recall your times of want, you'll have no need in times of want to yearn for your times of plenty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness--hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughte...r's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In matters of usage there are two extremes. At the extreme right are the purists, the standpatters, the rigid traditionalists who ...brook little or no change and who go by the rules--as many rules as they can recall or invent. They may not speak or write brilliantly, but they are grammatically unassailable--except when they forget some rule or misinterpret one.... At the extreme left are the permissivists, the heretics who argue that there is no such thing as "correct" usage. They maintain that usage is what people say, but they neglect to disclose what people they are talking about--most people in general or most intelligent people or most educated people or most writing people or what. Oddly enough, despite the loose approach of the permissivists, who have made some headway in the schools, there is evidence that people do crave authority in matters of language, they do ask for rules and rulings. They do not seem to appreciate the freedom that the permissivists are so eager to bestow upon them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fas...t as we learn to cope--so soon--it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to... get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.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 »