No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves ââ?¬â?? but what the teachers are themselves.
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A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Every woman knows all about everything
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An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire.
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On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.
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Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.
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Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase: 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.' Well - look at Jeannette Rankin. Probably a hundred men in Congress would have liked to do what she did. Not one of them had the courage to do it. The Gazette entirely disagrees with the wisdom of her position. But, Lord, it was a brave thing!
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
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You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete in a minute or two-- Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could. Now we're going to -- never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
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And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place....
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again
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And How and Where and Who.
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