The purity of today will invest us like a breeze, Only be hard, spare, ironical: something one can... Tip one's hat to and still get some use out of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... every woman's organization recognizes that reformers are far more common than feminists, that the passion to look after your f...ellow man, and especially woman, to do good to her in your way is far more common than the desire to put into every one's hand the power to look after themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a si...n, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for "doing the best" for his children?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us--and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry sh...ould be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doorman--a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms Grows from a downy tip;... A terrace nine stories high Rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles Starts from beneath one's feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his... mail, and the swordfish never surrenders. To expire, mild-eyed, in one's bed, transcends the death of Epaminondas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In states of perplexity men will rub their chins with their hand, or tug at the lobes of their ears, or rub their foreheads or che...eks or back of the neck. Women have very different gestures in such states. They will either put a finger on their lower front teeth with the mouth slightly open or pose a finger under the chin. Other masculine gestures in states of perplexity are: rubbing one's nose, placing the flexed fingers over the mouth, rubbing the side of the neck, rubbing the infraorbital part of the face, rubbing the closed eyes, and picking the nose. These are all masculine gestures; so is rubbing the back of the hand or the front of the thigh, and pursing of the lips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »