Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are on the way to court with him, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge..., and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown into prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man who would woo a fair maid, Should 'prentice himself to the trade;... And study all day, In methodical way, How to flatter, cajole, and persuadeLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages;... But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning),... An inopportune joke is enough to provoke Him to give you, at once, a month's warning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are one or two rules, Half-a-dozen, maybe,... That all family fools, Of whatever degree, Must observe if they love their profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour;... From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good humour!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Baseball is so modestly republican. The World Series is a continuation of the season by other means. Played in real towns, it is a...warded, democratically, to the city with the most wins, not the best caterers. And the players are built to human, yeoman scale. Footballers wear uniforms designed to make them mammoth and interchangeable, like the products of an oversized assembly line. Baseball outfits are meant to betray the real body underneath. In baseball's perfectly American balance of anarchy and order, uniforms are worn. But republican flannels, for God's sake, not the pads and helmets of a Nixonian Swiss guard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »