Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady b...ring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go bring him home to his people. Lay him in state on a sepal.... Wrap him for shroud in a petal. Embalm him with ichor of nettle. This is the word of your Queen."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you,... Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the Lenox Avenue buses, Taxis, subways, And for your love song tone their rumble down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close... your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentucky... where they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am useless, one more girl who couldn't be sold. When I visit the family now, I wrap my American successes around me like a pr...ivate shawl. I am worthy of eating the food. From afar I can believe my family loves me fundamentally. They only say, "When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls," because that is what one says about daughters. But I watched such words come out of my own mother's and father's mouths; I looked at their ink drawing of poor people snagging their neighbors' flotage with long flood hooks and pushing the girl babies on down the river. And I had to get out of hating range. I read in an anthropology book that Chinese say, "Girls are necessary too"; I have never heard the Chinese I know make this concession. Perhaps it was a saying in another village.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being a father Is quite a bother . . .... You improve them mentally And straighten them dentally, . . . They're no longer corralable Once they find that you're fallible . . . But after you've raised them and educated them and gowned them, They just take their little fingers and wrap you around them. Being a father Is quite a bother, But I like it, rather.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Watch out for love (unless it is true,... and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your no...tebooks and keep on the mantlepiece for ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »