Only one marriage I
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock. Ernest Hemingway
Hemlock
What will the solemn
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? Emily Dickinson
For him who fain
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane. Don Marquis
It is very important
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. Denis Diderot
It looked like something
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business. Daniel Handler
I have to seek
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn’t my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. … Read more
What bitter anguish would
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next. Alexander Hamilton
Gardening is the handiest
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder. Ray Bradbury