If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price |
Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it? |
It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again |
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. |
It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When the English began to hate. |
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. |
It's clever, but is it Art? |
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot! |
Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. |
King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre. |
Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. |
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. |
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money |
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. |
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears |