I N take thee M to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in s...ickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I give thee my troth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable... and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper..., and magnifies it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what... passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good ...nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralises all these--they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and... much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will jud...ge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a number of years I ... believed that political bondage was the cause of many of the ills endured by those of my own sex; unti...l I discovered that the man without a job was about as badly off as the woman without a ballot. In fact, a little worse, for we can live without voting but we cannot live without eating. The real antagonism is not that which exists or is supposed to exist between the sexes; but between the capitalist class and the proletariat. Women are victims of class distinctions more than of sex distinctions ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something li...ke a dead hand would fall on me,--"You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!" If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, "Soul, what have I to do with you?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feste. The better for my foes and the worse for my friends. Orsino. Just the contrary: the better for thy friends.... Feste. No, sir, the worse. Orsino. How can that be? Feste. ...They praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »