After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at t...he windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having found a large dead cat so heavy that he could not move it after several efforts, "Come," said he, (throwing down the pole,)... "you shall take it now;" which I accordingly did, and being a fresh man, soon made the cat tumble over the cascade. This may be laughed at as too trifling to record; but it is a small characteristick trait in the Flemish picture which I give of my friend, and in which, therefore I mark the most minute particulars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough an...d tumble of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim u...nless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding,... the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its ...dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... here hundreds sit and play Bingo; here the bright lights of Broadway burn through a sea haze; here Somebodies tumble over othe...r Somebodies and over Nobodies as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So you finally got wise to yourself, did you? Funny thing about you women. Most of you don't get wise soon enough. You wait until ...you're so old nobody want you.... You're not so hard to look at. Give yourself a tumble, you'll make the grade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.... Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »