I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But a...s soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father, hear my prayer. Forgive him. As you have forgiven all your children who have sinned. Don't turn your face from him. He did...n't know what he was doing. Bring him at last to rest in your peace ... which he could never have found ... here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this world we live in None of us is sly enough.... Never do we notice All is lie and bluff. Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is my decree. The bodies of those who died well and bravely by my side shall be delivered to the City of the Dead. Fine linen... and armor shall be their burial garments. They shall rest in tombs of stone, and, for their comfort in the second life, they shall have ample treasure. To each man, three measures of gold and nine measures of silver; one vessel each of onyx and alabaster; food and wine in plenty. All this and all honor shall each man enjoy in the second life. There we shall meet again, to stand side by side and serve. 'Til then, farewell. The gods of Egypt have spoken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never yet spoken from a public platform about women in industry that someone has not said, "But things are far better than ...they used to be." I confess to impatience with persons who are satisfied with a dangerously slow tempo of progress for half of society in an age which requires a much faster tempo than in the days that "used to be." Let us use what might be instead of what has been as our yardstick!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the ol...der people and the kids? A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do I get--a couple of bucks and a one-way ticket to Palookaville. It was you, Charley. You was my brother. You should've look...ed out for me. Instead of making me take them dives for the short-end money.... You don't understand! I could've been a contender. I could've had class and been somebody. Real class. Instead of a bum, which is what I am. It was you, Charley.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not be discouraged, if in a thousand instances you find your kindness rejected and wronged, your good evil-spoken of, and the h...and you extend for the relief of others, cast insultingly away; the benevolence which cannot outlive these trials of its purity and strength, is not like the self-sacrifice of him, who went about doing good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and ...then comfort thyself for thy heaviness. For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »