A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is..., so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this s...chool of affected grace and toe walking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout o...bedience enable us to follow Jesus' example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The res...t of the fraternity is deadwood. Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?... There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe,... And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes chara...cterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It opens this book of odd tales which transform the Brothers Grimm.... Transform! As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture. (And it could.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »