Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeed... disheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?... Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would hope that parents and grown children could be friends. When a friend confides in you that she's going to do something that... you think is most inappropriate, foolhardy or even dangerous, wouldn't you as a friend say so--in a calm, supportive way? Yet I have to be so careful what I say to my children. I have to walk on eggs to be sure I'm not hurting their feelings or interfering with their lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then go... home to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such as boxed Their feelings properly, complete to tags... A box for dark men and a box for Other Would often find the contents had been scrambled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty tho...usand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the Sphinx wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before we began to live consciously on our own accounts?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »