A fact is like a sack--it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feeli...ngs that caused it in the first place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,... forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict...r />themselves to sack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet, The lank man, knotty and tough as a hickory rail,... Whose hands were always too big for white-kid gloves, Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales, Whose weathered face was homely as a plowed field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, We'd like to work but we're feeling too weak,... We'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, We'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, We'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump. With it co...mes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to tak...e to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main... sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »