Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years draw near when you will say, "I ha...ve no pleasure in them"; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain; in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to t...ake the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have inspected the accommodations and find them entirely satisfactory, and as for those young men, who are of appropriate ages t...o be my grandsons, they will not trouble me in the least.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not h...urt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him..., what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs--all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world.... Life in jail is in suspension.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,... A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth, Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will trouble the thoughts of men yet for many an aeon,... they will travel far and wide, they will discuss all his written words, his pen will be sacred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another--and always into a better set--things might be easier, but the ...trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean--there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are not only apt to forget the kindnesses and injuries that have been done them, but which is a great deal more, they hate the... persons that have obliged them, and lay aside their resentments against those that have used them ill. The trouble of returning favors and revenging wrongs is a slavery, it seems, which they can very hardly submit to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, ...the poor fellows ought to be indulged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »