"I couldn't afford to learn it," said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. "I only took the regular course." "What was that?" inquire...d Alice. "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied; "and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." "I never heard of 'Uglification,'" Alice ventured to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. "Ten hours the first day," said ...the Mock Turtle: "nine the next, and so on." "What a curious plan!" exclaimed Alice. "That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat w...ith a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it? The Romans knew that and even they lasted four hundred years after they started to putrefy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States... are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift... and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You see that? They hanged me once, Frankenstein. They broke my neck. They said I was dead. Then they cut me down.... So, Ygor is d...ead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look There he is now, look:... There is no interrogation in his eyes Or in the hands, quiet over the horse's neck, And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving indifferent. O hidden under the dover's wing, hidden in the turtle's breast....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »