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 . . . AFFAIRS see: "INFIDELITY" see: "TREACHERY" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links James Thurber had an affair with a New Yorker secretary but his blindness made for tactical problems. He had to rely on one of the magazine's office boys to lead him about; as his run of bad luck would have it, the office boy assigned to him was 18 year old Truman Capote. "I worked as a boy in the Art Department then", Capote recalled, "and one of my jobs was to take Thurber to his girlfriend's apartment. She was as ugly as sin, so it served him right. I would have to wait for him at the apartment till he was finished, and then I'd dress him. He could undress by himself, but he couldn't dress himself. Now since Helen Thurber would dress him in the morning, she knew how he looked. Well, one time I put his socks on wrong side out, and when he got home, I gather Helen asked him a lot of questions. The next day, Thurber was furious at me he said I did it on purpose. But I was still assigned to lead him to the girl's apartment back and forth, back and forth." --Burton Bernstein Staff writer for "The New Yorker" [19571992] _Thurber_ [1975] I have good looking kids; thank god my wife cheats on me. --attributed to Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen] (19212004) American comedian. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. --Sacha Guitry (18851957) Russian-born French actor and director. Attributed in "The Spectator", vol. 250 [1983]. I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year. --Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950) American poet. "I Know I Am But Summer" [1923] [Laws of Montezuma:] 14. There is to be a rigorous law regarding adulterers. They are to be stoned and thrown into rivers or to the buzzards. --Montezuma I (c.13981469) Emperor of the Mexican people from 14401468. In Michael E. Smith _The Aztecs_, p. 52 [1996] A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison And had an affair with a Saracen; She was not over-sexed, Or jealous, or vexed, She just wanted to make a comparison. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. ^ When Vera Czermak learned that her husband had betrayed her, she decided she would end it all by jumping out of her third-story window. Some time later she awoke in the hospital to discover that she was still alive, having landed upon her husband. Mr. Czermak, however, was dead. -- in John Train _True Remarkable Occurrences_ [1981] ^ When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead on the street, I always hope he's dead. --Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American author. "True Love" in _New York Magazine_ [13 May 1968]. ----- concupiscence (noun) [kahn-kyκ-'pi-shκnts] A powerful lust, especially sexual, for something. tryst (noun) An appointment (as between lovers) to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting.  ;void(0)) AFFECTION . . see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links Words of affection, howso'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. --Joanna Baillie (17621851) Scottish poet and dramatist. "Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on Her Birthday" Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. Attributed in H. Percy Smith _A Dictionary of Terms, Phrases, and Quotations_, p. 523 [1895]. Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, canto IV, CXX [18121818] The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Coningsby_, ch. XV [1844] I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. ... The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones, as quoted by JW Cross (her husband) in _George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals_ [3 vol. 1885]. The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say because they seemed to me too obvious. --Andrι Gide (18691951) French novelist and critic; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. _Journal_ [23 August 1926] Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) American novelist and short-story writer. Spring, 1853 entry in "American Note-Books" published in _The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, vol. 9 [1883]. Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair. --Ellen C. Howarth [aka Clementine] (18271899) American poet. _'Tis but a Little Faded Flower_ Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted. If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, still fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Evangeline_, pt. II, st. 1 [1847] There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. --Johann Georg Zimmermann (17281795) Swiss philosophical writer and physician. _Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things_ [1800] - My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got two girlfriends. --anon. . . see: "RESPECT" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. --Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) (b. 1942) American heavyweight boxer. Quoted in Bill Press _Spin This!: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth_ [2001]. - As a boy, Sir Walter Scott was left weak and lame by a severe attack of fever. Some people thought he would never amount to anything in life. When Scott was a teenager, he visited in a home where some famous writers were being entertained. The poet Robert Burns was among them. In one room was a picture under which was written a beautiful bit of verse. Burns asked who wrote it, but no one seemed to know. Timidly, Scott gave the writer's name and quoted the rest of the poem. Burns was impressed. Laying his hand on young Walter's head, he said, "Ah, my boy, I'm sure you'll be a great man in Scotland someday!" That brief conversation was the affirmation Walter Scott needed to set him on the road to greatness. --Henry G. Bosch (19141995) Religious figure. _Our Daily Bread_ [4 November 1990] "An Encouraging Word" - A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _What Is Man?_ [1906] To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young_ [1894] -- My wife rushed into the supermarket to pick up a few items. She headed for the express line where the clerk was talking on the phone with his back turned to her. Excuse me, she said, Im in a hurry. Could you check me out, please? The clerk turned, stared at her for a second, looked her up and down, smiled and said, Not bad. ;void(0)) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION . . see: "EQUALITY" see: "WORK" for other related links From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. --Friedrich A. von Hayek (18991992) Austrian-born British economist; co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. _The Constitution of Liberty_ [1960] ;void(0)) AFGHANISTAN . . see: "PLACES" for related links When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. _The Young British Soldier_ end page | ABILITY - ABUSE | ACADEMY AWARDS - ACCUSATION | ACHIEVEMENT - ACQUAINTANCE | ACTION/S | ACTORS / ACTING | ACTUARIES - ADVERSARIES | ADVERSITY - ADVERTISING | ADVICE | AFFAIRS - AFGHANISTAN | AGE | AGNOSTICS - AIRPLANES | ALCOHOL | ALIBI - AMBITION | AMERICA PAGE 1 (A-M) | AMERICA PAGE 2 (N-Z) | AMERICANS | AMERICAN INDIANS | AMERICAN REVOLUTION | AMUSEMENT - ANCESTORS | ANGER | ANIMAL RIGHTS - ANIMALS | ANIMOSITIES - APATHY | APOLOGY & APPEARANCE | APPEASEMENT | APPLAUSE - APRIL | ARCHAEOLOGISTS - ARCHITECTURE | ARGUMENT | ARISTOCRACY - ART | ASHAMED - ASTROLOGY | ATHEISM | ATOM BOMB - ATTRACTION | AUSTRALIA | AUTHORITY - AUTOMOBILES | AUTUMN - AWARENESS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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