You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.
Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".
Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.
Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.
All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.