Quote #70
No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
More from James Russell Lowell
- 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.
- Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
- The surest plan to make a Man Is, think him so.
- Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
- What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
- Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
- It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alon…