The Books Are Bumps
THE greatest school is the University of Hard Knocks. Its books are bumps. Every bump is a lesson. If we learn the lesson with one bump, we do not get that bump again. We do not need it. We have traveled past it. They do not waste the bumps. We get promoted to the next bump.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
But if we are "naturally bright," or there is something else the matter with us, so that we do not learn the lesson of the bump we have just gotten, then that bump must come back and bump us again. Some of us learn to go forward with a few bumps, but most of us are "naturally bright" and have to be pulverized. The tuition in the University of Hard Knocks is not free. Experience is the dearest teacher in the world. Most of us spend our lives in the A-B-C's of getting started. We matriculate in the cradle. We never graduate. When we stop learning we are due for another bump.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
Two things happened. The little ones shook down and the big ones shook up. The bump that was bad luck to the little ones was good luck to the big ones. The same bump was both good luck and bad luck. Luck does not depend upon the direction of the bump, but upon the size of the bump-ee! The "Lucky" One
So everywhere you look you see the barrel sorting people according to size. Every business concern can tell you stories like that of the Chicago house where a number of young ladies worked. Some of them had been there for a long time.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, if you dare, And gallop away to Bumpville! I hope you'll be sure to sit fast in your seat, For this calico mare is prodigiously fleet, And many adventures you're likely to meet As you journey along to Bumpville.英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
This calico mare both gallops and trots While whisking you off to Bumpville; She paces, she shies, and she stumbles, in spots, In the tortuous road to Bumpville; And sometimes this strangely mercurial steed Will suddenly stop and refuse to proceed, Which, all will admit, is vexatious indeed, When one is en route to Bumpville!英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
She's scared of the cars when the engine goes "Toot!" Down by the crossing at Bumpville; You'd better look out for that treacherous brute Bearing you off to Bumpville! With a snort she rears up on her hindermost heels, And executes jigs and Virginia reels - Words fail to explain how embarrassed one feels Dancing so wildly to Bumpville!英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
The waves were bumper-to-bumper." This is not a Katherine Heigl movie.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》