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Notes of a Dirty Old Man. First edition. Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. His short articles were marked by his trademark crude humor, as well as his attempts to present a "truthful" or ...
The World's Most Interesting Man. The Most Interesting Man in the World was an advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer featuring actor Jonathan Goldsmith as a bearded, debonair older gentleman with voiceovers that were both humorous and outrageous. The advertisements began appearing in the United States in 2006 and became a popular Internet meme.
Richard Kindersley 's sculpture The Seven Ages of Man in London. " All the world's a stage " is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare 's pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogues the seven stages ...
The smartest things men have told Men's Health about integrity, growth, and other essentials for mentally fit men over the past 35 years. 23 Favorite Quotes from Guys in Men’s Health Skip to ...
Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress. " Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress " is a letter by Benjamin Franklin dated June 25, 1745, in which Franklin counsels a young man about channeling sexual urges. Due to its licentious nature the letter was not published in collections of Franklin's papers in the United States during the 19th ...
The unexamined life is not worth living" is a famous dictum supposedly uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death. The dictum is recorded in Plato's Apology (38a5–6) as ho dè anexétastos bíos ou biōtòs anthrṓpōi ( ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ ...
Sailing to Byzantium. " Sailing to Byzantium " is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [ 1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium ( Constantinople) as a metaphor for ...
Reverence for Life. The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: " Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben ." These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon ), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time. In Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote: