This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; a...pparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are those who never burn incense when things are going well, but then throw themselves at the Buddha's feet when crises come....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money t...o the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another one o' them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothing. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans. And we got...ta bring our own tin cans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Early in the morning, when day breaks, when all is fresh, in the dawn of one's strength--to read a book at such a time is simply d...epraved!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather i...n the reader's head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice ve...rsa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt Jews are most obnoxious creatures. Any competent historian or psychoanalyst can bring a mass of incontrovertible evidence... to prove that it would have been better for the world if the Jews had never existed. But I, as an Irishman, can, with patriotic relish, demonstrate the same of the English. Also of the Irish.... We all live in glass houses. Is it wise to throw stones at the Jews? Is it wise to throw stones at all?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady ...it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »