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ACTUARIES

see: "OCCUPATIONS" for other related links


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Q: What's the difference between an American actuary
and a Sicilian actuary?

A: The American actuary knows how many people will
die in a given year. The Sicilian actuary knows
their names.

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A tour group is visiting the Grand Canyon, and
the tour guide asks if anyone knows the age of
the canyon. Everybody is mumbling but nobody
answers. An actuary raises his hand and says,
"one million and three years old!" The guide
is amazed and asks the actuary how he knows
this so exactly. The actuary answers, "Three
years ago I visited the Grand Canyon, and one
of your guides said the canyon was one million
years old."

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ADAPTABILITY

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see: "CHANGE"
see: "REALISM, REALITY"


They who will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
Quoted in _The London Magazine_ [February 1828].

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some
cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best
alternative open, and if so it is folly not to work
for it with all your might.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
_The Gathering Storm_, ch. XXXV [1948]

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand;
but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first, to her
ways.
--Clarence Day (1874—1935)
American author.
_This Simian World_ [1920]

Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
--German proverb

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Samuel Goldwyn (1882—1974)
American film producer.

Goldwyn is said to have been eagar to buy the
film rights Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Lonliness,"
a controversial novel dealing with lesbianism. 'You
can't film that,' a studio adviser said. 'It's about
lesbians.'

'All right,' said Goldwyn, 'where they got lesbians,
we'll use Austrians.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.]

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...like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it
be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind
if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand
the noble art of turning to every wind.
--Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.
_English Fragments_ [1828] "The Emancipation"

If you live in the river you should
make friends with the crocodile.
--Indian proverb

We must cut our coat according to our cloth,
and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].
_Lay Thoughts of a Dean_ [1926]

I bend but do not break.
--Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695)
French poet.
_Fables_, bk. I, fable xxii [1668]

Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
Th' acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
_Lalla Rookh_ [1817]

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_Man and Superman_ [1905]

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
--attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.



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ADIRONDACKS

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see: "LAKE GEORGE"
see: "NATURE" for other related links
see: "PLACES" for other related links


There are some nooks and summits in the Adirondack region
where one can really 'recline on one's divine composure' and
[...] seem for awhile to enjoy one's birthright of freedom and
relief from every fever and falsity.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.
Letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman [16 June 1895].

Lake George is, without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw;
formed by a contour of mountains into a basin thirty-five miles long, and
from two to four miles broad, finely interspersed with islands, its water
limpid as crystal and the mountain sides covered with rich groves of silver
fir, white pine, aspen and paper birch down to the wateredge, here and
there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
An abundance of speckled trout, salmon trout, bass, and other fish with
which it is stored, have added to our other amusements, the sport of taking
them.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to Martha Jefferson Randolph [31 May 1791].



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ADMIRATION

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see: "APPLAUSE", "APPRECIATION"
see: "PRAISE"
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links

Photo: Admiring Hitler


Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that
immediately decays upon growing familiar
with its object.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
"The Spectator", # 256 [24 December 1711]

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely
ever survives to mature years.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
Attributed in Charles Noel Douglas
_Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical_ [1917].

However big the fool, there is always a
bigger fool to admire him.
--Nicolas Boileau-Despr้aux (1636—1711)
French critic and poet.
_L'art po้tique_, canto 1 [1674]

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History_ [1841]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem,
not because they are known, but because they are
not.
--S้bastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 367 [1882].

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do),
It is the only method that I know,
To make men Happy, and to keep 'em so.
--Thomas Creech (1659—1700)
English classical scholar and translator.
_The Odes , Satires and Epistles of Horace_ [1684]

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
--attributed to Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.

Admiration is the Daughter of Ignorance.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1736]

It is better, in some respects, to be admired by those
with whom you live than to be loved by them. And
this, not on account of any gratification of vanity,
but because admiration is so much more tolerant
than love.
--Sir Arthur Helps (1813—1875)
English writer and clerk of the Privy Council.
_Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms_ [1871]

We always like those who admire us; we do
not always like those whom we admire.
--Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_, # 294 [1665]

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Amedeo Modigliani (1884—1920)
Italian painter and sculptor:

Modigliani's admiration of Utrillo was reciprocated. On the
occasion of their first meeting, they began by paying each
other extravagant compliments. 'You are the world's
greatest painter,' said one.

'No, *you* are the world's greatest painter,'
said the other.

'I forbid you to contradict me.'

'I forbid you to forbid me.'

The argument became heated. 'If you say that again,
I'll hit you.'

'You are the greatest —' and they fell to blows.

Later, they made up over several bottles of wine at
a nearby bistro. As they went out into the street, one
said, 'You are the world's greatest painter.'

'No, you are.'

And so the fight broke out again, until both combatants
were down in the gutter, where they went to sleep. In
the early dawn they woke up to discover that they had
been robbed.

_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000]

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Few men are admired by their servants.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays), bk. III, ch. 11 [pub. 1580—1588].

We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem,
and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the
ocean — the pearl is in its depths, the sea-weed swims.
--"Oriental Maxim" according to _The New-York Mirror_ of [13 November 1830].

You're the top!
You're the Coliseum.
You're the top!
You're the Louvre Museum.
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss
You're a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare's sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top!
--Cole Porter (1892—1964)
American songwriter.
"You're the Top!" [1934 song]

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended
much to lessen both my admiration and my contempt
of others.
--Joseph Priestley (1733—1804)
English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist.
Quoted in Isaac Disraeli _Curiosities of Literature_, p. 422 [1859].

Tell me who admires you and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
--attributed to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.

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adulation (noun)
Excessively admiring behavior: excessive flattery or admiration

aficionado [uh-fish-ee-uh-NAH-doh], noun:
An enthusiastic admirer; a fan.

lionize [LY-uh-nyz], transitive verb:
To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.




ADOLESCENCE

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see: "AGE" for related links


Adolescence begins when children stop asking
questions — because they know all the answers.
--Evan Esar (1899—1995)
American humorist.
_20,000 Quips and Quotes_ [1968]

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones [...] run in packs
like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating
liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
--Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
American writer and social critic.
"Homosexuality at the Fin de Si่cle" _Esquire_ [October 1991]

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty,
or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in
the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the
anciently, stealing, fighting.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Winter's Tale_, III, iii [First pub. 1623]

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only
trying on one face after another till he finds his own.
--Logan Pearsall Smith (1865—1946)
American-born man of letters.
_All Trivia: Trivia, More Trivia, Afterthoughts, Last Words_ [1945]

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Adolescence: a stage between infancy and adultery.
--anon.



ADULTS

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see: "AGE" for related links


Adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
From Wikiquote: "On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches
and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life
of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96."



ADVENTURE

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see: "CHANCE"
see: "DANGER"
see: "DISCOVERY"
see: "TRAVEL"


To die will be an awfully big adventure.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_Peter Pan_, act 3 [1928]

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An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience is
only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
_All Things Considered_ [1908] "On Running After Ones Hat"


Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.
Attributed in Evan Esar _20,000 Quips & Quotes_, p. 15 [1995].

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Ship me somewheres east of Suez,
where the best is as the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments,
an' a man can raise a thirst.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
_Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads_, "Mandalay," st. 6 [1892]

We will find in the lives of men who have done anything,
of those whom we call great men, that it is this spirit of
adventure, the call of the unknown, that has lured and
urged them along on their course ... All of us are explorers
in life, whatever trail we follow ... It is the explorers with
the true spirit of adventure we now need if humanity
shall really overcome the present difficulties ... Ah, youth.
What a glorious word! Unknown realms ahead of you,
hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move
on, new islands appear, mountain summits shoot up
through the peering mists, one behind another, waiting
for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to
explore, free boundless plains for you to traverse.
--Fridtjof Nansen (1861—1930)
Norwegian polar explorer.
Speech on being installed as Rector of the
University of Aberdeen [November 1926]; quoted in
In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006].

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
_Don Carlos_ [1787 play]



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ADVERSARIES

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see: "ENEMIES"
see: "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links


I've labored long and hard for bread
For honor and for riches
But on my corns too long you've tred,
You fine-haired sons of bitches.
--Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (1829—1917?)
American outlaw.
In a note he left after robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach;
first three lines quoted in Marshall Cushing _The Story of our Post Office_ [1893].

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and
sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him
an advantage to which he is not entitled.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Quoted in James Boswell,
_The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786], entry of 15 August 1773.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Christian Science_, bk. I, ch. 5 [1907]


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