Back then we were better-behaved than you young boystoday; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French:Mademoiselle, from the… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
My titillations have no foot-notes And their memorials are the phrases Of idiosyncratic music. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Far in the night, as we were falling asleep on the bank of the Merrimack, we heard some tyro beating a drum… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best, I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast. Day-break… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Should some limb of the devil Destroy the view by cutting down an ash That shades the road, or setting up a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: That women are timid: And 'tis well they… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and therights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The will to overcome an emotion is ultimately nothing but the will of anotheror ofseveral otheremotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is areaction against slights, an effort to veil deficiencies,… — Adam G De Gurowski Copy Share Image
During the fifties, for example, the American character appeared with someconsistency that became a model of manhood adopted by many men: the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
God not created woman only for fulfill men's physical desire but also because of are created the women that can make men's… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An diligent person doesn't like to wasting their efforts into resolving a problem. But also he wasting their efforts to avoid any… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling,would be thought No better a musician than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What you did, any of us might. And saying so I see our difference: Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Heaven is the place where the donkey at last catches up with the carrot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burthens. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
