Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .
Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.
61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the sun.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.
They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke and then served his dead body with artichokes.
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeepeer, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.
It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
Nobody can do it for you.