Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell j
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Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspect
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all gr
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
And of all man's felicities
The very subtlest
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And of all man's felicities
The very subtlest one, say I,
Is when for the first time he sees
His hearthfire smoke against the sky.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But eve
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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don't bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bed
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the
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Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds;
T
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds;
They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads;
They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight,
And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
A human being: an ingenious assembly of por
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gall
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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