Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity--these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace ...of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. Man is "The Animal That Laughs." But so does the monkey, as Mr. Darwin pointed out; and so does the Australian bird that is called the laughing jackass. No--Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it--or has occasion to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feste. Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so... do I, too. He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an o...rdering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankin...gs means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist ec...onomy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions..., as when, being thirsty, I drink water, or go to the fire, being cold: no! but I am first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself, as it were in flashes of light, in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base, whereon flocks graze, and shepherds pipe and dance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant assoc...iations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential--there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost.... It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion ...and publicity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not ei...ther vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel...y, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is made--when felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »