Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how to ...be men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin'... He just keeps rollin', He keeps on rollin' along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when oth...ers are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spirit...ual qualities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commissi...on of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doesn't that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother "I love your daughter," and not get the reply "what are your in...tentions, and what is your income?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat w...ith a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »