Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends... And give your hearts to, when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes, fall away Like water from ye, never found again But where they mean to sink ye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To die, to sleep-- No more, and by a sleep to say we end... The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to--'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my w...ords. My language trembles with desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and... have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why don't you take a good look at yourself! What do you see?! A doctor, a scientist, a businessman? You see a scar-faced ex- con, ...a two-bit safecracker, a petty thief who don't know when he made the big time. Where do you come off to blast her! No matter what she's been, what she's done. She's a giant! And you wanna know why? Well, I'll tell ya. Because she sees something in you worth saving. If only one tenth of one percent of all the good in her could rub off on you, you'd be a giant too! But you're a midget! In your head, in your heart, in your whole makeup! You're a midget!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I positively like the sense, when I dine out, and stoop to rescue a falling handkerchief, that I am not going to rub my shoulder a...gainst a heart. What are hearts doing on sleeves?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »