There was an old woman and she lived in a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.... She crumm'd 'em some porridge without any bread And she borrowed a beetle, and she knocked 'em all on the head. Then out went the old woman to bespeak 'em a coffin And when she came back she found' em all a-loffing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;... But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two, Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think it is better to show love by meeting needs than to keep telling my son that I love him. Right now he is learning to tie hi...s shoes. He is old enough, so even though it's hard for him, sometimes I insist. But once in a while when I see he's tired I still do it for him, and I have noticed that while I am tying his shoe, he says, "I love you, Mommy." When he says, "I love you," I know that he knows that he is loved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the shoe pinches, even though it fits perfectly. Apples were made to be gathered, also the whole host of the world's ailm...ents and troubles. There is no time like the present for giving in to this temptation. Tomorrow you'll weep what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches, full of Variety and Glow?--How could I possibly join them on to<...br />the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their a...gility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a so...rt of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »