I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tues...day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger,... And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, ...but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you pl...odded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new c...reation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday,... Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday, This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a mo...re agreeable name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »