Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. They that are delivered from the noise of a...rchers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've thought about how, were we to suddenly receive the freedom about which we talk so much when we spar with one another, we woul...d not know what to do with it at first. We would expend it on denouncing one another in the newspapers for spying, for love of the ruble, we would frighten society with protestations that we have no people, no science, no literature, nothing at all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then ...it shows deep and beautiful colors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is the essence that inquires. He is the axis of the star;... He is the sparkle of the spar; He is the heart of every creature; He is the meaning of each feature; And his mind is the sky, Than all it holds more deep, more high.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely w...rong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she... isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.... Dogs do not ritually urinate... in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And since our Daintie age, Cannot indure reproofe,... Make not thy selfe a Page, To that strumpet the Stage, But sing high and aloofe, Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My title's sealed. Those that for claps do write, Let pui'nies, porters', players' praise delight,... And, till they burst, their backs like asses load: A man should seek great glory, and not broad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »