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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Every woman knows all about everything
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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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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Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
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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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And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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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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You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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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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Every woman knows all about everything.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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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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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
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And How and Where and Who.
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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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He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
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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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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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