I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?
The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches.
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.
During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.