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Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Drunkenness category:
- Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, Drunk in a Plug Hat, 1886...
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Education category:
- Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, A Father's Letter, 1886...
My dear son - Your letter of last week reached us yesterday, and I enclose $13, which is all I have by me at the present time. I may sell the other shote next week and make up the balance of what you wanted. I will probably have to wear the old buffalo overcoat to meetings again this winter, but that don't matter so long as you are getting an education. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Humility category:
-The Century magazine,1892...
We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Information category:
Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Music category:
-quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924...
I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Nature category:
-Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, Spring, 1886...
Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it
can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Pets category:
-Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, Mr. Sweeney's Cat, 1886...
At first she regarded it as a joke, and treated the matter very lightly, but later on she observed that the fly-paper stuck to her feet with great tenacity of purpose... She did not dash wildly through a $150 plate-glass window, as some cats would have done. She controlled herself and acted in the coolest manner... She sat down a moment to more fully outline a plan for the future. In doing so, she made a great mistake... (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Pets category:
-Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, The Duke of Rawhide, 1886...
'I believe I've got about the most instinct bulldog in the United States,' said Cayote Van Gobb yesterday ...'Duke would sleep days during the season and gather fragments of the rear breadths of Western pantaloons at night... He took all these fragments of goods I found, over into the garret above the carriage shed... Yesterday I went in there and took a lantern with me. There on the floor the Duke of Rawhide had arranged all the samples of Rocky Mountain pantaloons with a good deal of taste, and I don't suppose you'd believe it, but that blamed pup is collecting all these little scraps to make himself a crazy quilt.' (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Repose category:
-Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, Habits of a Literary Man, 1886...
I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Edgar Wilson Nye - From the Travel category:
-Thinks and Remarks by Bill Nye, Railway Etiquette, 1886...
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car. (Edgar Wilson Nye)
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