Maxioms by Douglas Jerrold
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the
steps.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the
steps.
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may
be, is in itself nothing--makes read more
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may
be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but,
be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the
hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience,
reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that
beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their
hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of
their hats'? The cock's all."
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as
creeps.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as
creeps.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought
in in malice.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought
in in malice.
