Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the... prairies wide, Over the dense-packed cities all and the teeming wharves and ways, I float this carol with joy, with joy to thee, O death,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of tw...o beer glasses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to Father's lexicon people who started on a job and didn't stay at it for 50 years were "quitters." If you stayed 20 yea...rs and then shifted to more congenial work you were a "drifter."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hil...l; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning-loom. There's fancy! There's simile!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my min...d, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in American... history is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told ...when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: "If you truly love me, kill the bartender."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »