I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
Comfort, however, easily merges into license.
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.
I like to stay home with my family.
The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.
As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.
I don’t know what’s happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you’ve gone all stabby and whatnot.