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Maintain our rank, vulgarity despise, To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise, You would not swear upon a bed of death-- Reflect--your Maker now may stop your breath. - [Swearing] May never lady press his lips, his proffer'd love returning, Who makes a furnace of his mouth, and keeps his chimney burning; May each true woman shun his sight, for fear his fumes should choke her, And none but those who smoke themselves have kisses for a smoker. - [Smoking] Montana. It's everything Colorado thinks it is. - [Montana] No man in effect doth accompany with others but he learneth, ere he is aware, some gesture, voice, or fashion. - [Company] O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on, Held high our honour in your wounded hands, Carried our honour safe with bleeding feet-- We have no glory great enough for you, The very soul of Britain keeps your day. - published in a London newspaper, 1917 [Soldiers] O Western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were in my arms And I in my bed again! - [Love] Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad. - [Women] Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they are shrewd, And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are as nothing to their goodness when they're good. - [Women] Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me. - in the "Spectator", July 31, 1920, sometimes attributed to Hon. G.W.E. Russell or to Lord Neaves [Water] Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. - [Rebellion] Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae, Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.] - (translated from Greek) [Cities] Some say "to-morrow" never comes, A saying oft thought right; But if to-morrow never came, No end were of "to-night." The fact is this, time flies so fast, That e'er we've time to say "Tomorrow's come," presto! behold! "To-morrow" proves "To-day." - [Tomorrow] Stands midway between Heathenism and Christianity. It rose out of Heathenism as twilight out of night and melted into Christianity as twilight into morning. - [Judaism] The control center of your life is your attitude. - [Attitude] The egg is to cuisine what the article is to speech. - [Eggs] The first draught a man drinks ought to be for thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for pleasure, the fourth for madness. - [Drunkenness] The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge, And thus some seeming pettiest chance Oft gives our life its after-tinge. The trifles of our daily lives, The common things, scarce worth recall, Whereof no visible trace survives, These are the mainsprings after all. - in "Harper's Weekly" [Circumstance] The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life. Only Jesus of Nazareth claims this world-wide, undying remembrance. You cannot cut Christmas out of the Calendar, nor out of the heart of the world. - [Christmas] There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't. - [People] Try to save money. Someday it may be valuable again. - [Money] What is death? Oh! what is death? 'Tis slumber to the weary-- 'Tis rest to the forlorn-- 'Tis shelter to the dreary-- 'Tis peace amid the storm-- 'Tis the entrance to our home-- 'Tis the passage to that God Who bids His children come, When their weary course is trod. Such is death! yes, such is death. - [Death] "Yes!"--Oh! it is a kind reply, When flowing from the lips of dear Young beauty--in whose ear we sigh The one fond wish. - [Yes] Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. - "Like the Crest of a Peacock" by G.G. Joseph [Mathematics] There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] - "The World of Mathematics" edited by J.R. Newman (p. 1452) [Numbers : Proverbs] This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet. - On the Danse Macabre of Saint-Saens [Dancing] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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