Quote #66
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
More from James Russell Lowell
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
- It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
- The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.
- My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know.
- Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose, An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.
- 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.
- No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.