Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars?… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly:… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You heard about, through word of mouth, Big Bird is out, he's in the house. He's turnin' up, with Snuffleup, They're really… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
