Quote #64
It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
More from James Russell Lowell
- My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know.
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- God makes sech nights, all white an' still, Fur'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten.
- Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
- It ain't by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied- I scent wich pays the best, an' then Go into it baldheaded.
- Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
- I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
- The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.