The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
And thence it is
That I to your assistance do make love,
Masking the business from the common eye
For sundry weighty reasons.
Tears are sometimes as weighty as words.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories