You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Willful waste brings woeful want.
Willful waste brings woeful want.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and read more
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without read more
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came read more
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it.
in the book THE JUNGLE.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
Wars damage the civilian society as much
as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Wars damage the civilian society as much
as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
The zen of flyfishing is that zen masters
don't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.
The zen of flyfishing is that zen masters
don't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar