The oppressed are allowed once every few years to
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ig
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you ca
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred ye
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black
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Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
It took me years and years of trial efforts to wo
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It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, whic
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of yea
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that
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There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, f
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yest
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For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
A single conversation with a wise man is better t
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach y
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Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
Th
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I'd give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life's decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.
There was no need to do any housework at all.
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There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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