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. . . see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. --Charlotte Brontλ (18161855) British author. _Jane Eyre_, ch. VI [1847] Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize you antipathies. --William Ralph Inge (18601954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [19111934]. _More Lay Thoughts of a Dean_ [1931] The animosities of sovereigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole body of people, and of a people too, dictate their own measures, produce calamities of long duration. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to C.W.F Dumas [1786]. A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: 'What is wrong with me.' --Father James Keller (19001977) American Roman Catholic priest; in 1945 founded The Christophers. _Three Minutes a Day_ [1950] ----- animus (noun) A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility. Synonyms: bad blood, animosity  . . see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links see: "HOME & FAMILY" for related links I don't know what you think about anniversaries. I like them, being always minded to drink my cup of life to the bottom, and take my chance of the sweets and bitters. --T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (18251895) English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}. _Aphorisms and Reflections From the Works of T. H. Huxley_ Selected by Henrietta A. Huxley [1907] The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "Holidays" in _Songs and Sonnets from Longfellow_ [1851] Men hold the anniversaries of their birth, of their marriage, of the birth of their first-born, and they hold although they spread no feast, and ask no friends to assist many another anniversary besides. On many a day in every year does a man remember what took place on that self-same day in some former year, and chews the sweet or bitter herb of memory, as the case may be. --Alexander Smith (18301867) Scottish poet. _Dreamthorp_ [1863] -- There is a story about an archbishop of Canterbury and his wife, who were celebrating a major wedding anniversary. Someone asked the wife whether, in all those years, she had ever thought of divorce. She replied, "Divorce? Never once! However, I have thought of murder several times." -- One morning in the summer of 1950, Billy Wilder was sitting alone, eating breakfast and reading the Hollywood Reporter. His wife, Audrey, came into the room and asked: "Do you know what day this is, dear?" "June 30th." "It's our anniversary." "Please," Wilder said, "not while I'm eating." -- A couple in their sixties had somehow managed to survive forty-five years of married life filled with as much fighting as love. When hubby came home from his office on his sixty-fifth birthday, his wife lovingly presented him with two beautiful ties. He was so touched that he would not let her cook dinner. He would take her out as soon as he had time to clean up and change his shirt. It was a rare moment of tenderness. A few minutes later hubby came downstairs dressed for an evening on the town and wearing one of his gift ties. His wife stared at him for a moment before the force of argumentative habit took command. "What is the matter" she snarled, "the other one is no good? -- - A married couple in their early 60's were celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.... Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table. She said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish." The wife answered, "Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband." The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands. The husband thought for a moment: "Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than I." The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish. So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!....the husband became 93 years old. -- ----- quasquicentennial (adj.) [kwah-skwκ-sin-'te-ni-yκl] Pertaining to 125 or 125th; the celebration of 125 years. semicentennial - 50th centennial - 100th sesquicentennial - 150th bicentennial - 200th tercentennial - 300th quadricentennial - 400th quincentennial - 500th Etymology: Introduced for the city of Delavan, Illinois 125th anniversary of its founding.  ANNOYANCES . . see: "UNHAPPINESS" for related links A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. --Herm Albright (18761944) German-born American painter and lithographer. Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [1995]. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] People are inexterminable -- like flies and bedbugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices -- that's us. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. In "The Observer" [29 March 1959]. The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Lives of the English Poets_ [1781] "Pope" If there's nobody in your way, it's because you're not going anywhere. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. Quoted in Elizabeth Dole _Hearts Touched with Fire_, p. 110 [2004]. - In a 2001 post kap writes to USENET about people and things that annoy him: Last Friday was our first day in our new home. It was an interesting day. As you may recall I had purchased an entertainment center and desk *already assembled* so that I wouldn't have to do it myself - because I *couldn't* do it myself, no way, no how. So when the Lowe's truck pulled up to the door I was rife with anticipation as they unloaded my appliances and two big boxes of.....what's this? *unassembled* furniture. For the moment Lowe's wasn't my new favorite store, nor was I the new favorite person of the manager of the furniture department who fielded my irate telephone calls. At any rate, while they were unloading the truck I spotted the wife of a neighbor I had met previously and as protocol demanded I say hello, I wandered over and introduced myself and had a brief but pleasant conversation about her niece and my grandkids (schoolmates), and as I made two steps backward while bidding farewell my second step smashed her outdoor patio lights. "Crunch!" A most terrible sound. Smashed the poor thing to smithereens I did. Clutz, you say? Yes, but a prepared clutz because we had bought the same set and as I didn't think just one light could be replaced I gave her the entire set. Next to the home of the irate, thoughtful, prepared clutz came the cable man. First you must understand that there is very little that can prevent the cable man from completing his installation. One pratfall would be if all the TV's weren't present. They weren't, they were all at the old apartment. Now you would think that the cable company might have told me this when I set up the appointment but no, they wait until the guy gets here and then they tell me. And I think I saw a smirk. The reason they can't set up, without the TV's, is a good one! Seems the cable lines leak something - don't know what - he didn't explain. Radiation? Cable ooze? CBS eyes or NBC peacocks oozing out of the lines? Don't rightly know, do know that we won't have cable until Tuesday, the next available appointment. The last helpful person to visit this uninformed, irate, thoughtfully prepared clutz last Friday was the gas man. No, he didn't blow the house to kingdom come. How could he, he turned the gas *off.* Don't ask! And so, as moving day was the following day, we froze our asses off Saturday night. Now, five days later, I'm pretty much over my frozen, irate, uninformed, thoughtfully prepared clutz state of being and just back to being me, such as me is. Oh, the furniture was finally assembled on Tuesday but on Monday, in a burst of enthusiasm I figured I might try to conquer the entertainment center. I opened the box and ensured the presence of all pieces and then read the first page - no words actually, only pictures - showing piece F being atttached to piece C. I mean, really, couldn't they at least have the decency to start with A and B. I gave up. - What a world is this! one half of the people in it tormenting the other half, yet being themselves tormented in tormenting! --Samuel Richardson (16891761) English novelist. _A Collection Of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments_, p. 138 [1755] I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Letter to Madame du Deffand_ [23 April 1754], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. - If you don't want anyone to get your goat, don't let them know where you have it tied. --anon. ----- chagrin [shuh-GRIN], noun: Acute vexation, annoyance, or embarrassment, arising from disappointment or failure. transitive verb: To unsettle or vex by disappointment or humiliation; to mortify. irk (verb) To be irritating, wearisome, or vexing to. Synonyms: gall nettlesome [NET-l-suhm], adjective: Causing irritation, vexation, or distress. pestiferous [pes-TIF-uh-ruhs], adjective: 1. Bearing or bringing disease. 2. Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease. 3. Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious. 4. Bothersome; troublesome; annoying. rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv], adjective: Serving or tending to irritate or repel. . . see: "QUESTIONS" Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. ---Felix Frankfurter (18821965) Austrian-born U.S. Supreme Court justice who helped found the A.C.L.U.. Dissenting opinion in "Priebe & Sons v. United States, 332 US 407" [1947]. Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. --Katharine Graham (19172001) American publisher. Interview in "Ms." (mag.) [1974] Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. --Joseph Joubert (17541824) French philosopher. _Recueil des pensιes de M. Joubert_ ("Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert") [1838] You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. --Naguib Mahfouz (19112006) Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Quoted in Michael J. Gelb _Thinking For a Change_ [1996]. Answer me in one word. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_, III, ii [1599] I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_, ch. 6 [1883] Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Attributed in _The Tuners' Magazine_ [August 1915]. Is that your final answer? --Catchphrase, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" [American TV show] ----- rejoinder [noun]: An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply. . . see: "EXPECTATION" see: "FUTURE" see: "PLANS" see: "TOMORROW" see: "WISHING" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [8 October 1712] After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. --Honorι de Balzac (17991850) French novelist and playwright. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_ [1891 ed.]. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Henrietta Temple_, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1837] Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Silas Marner_, ch. 18 [1861] There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Epistoloe Ad Lucilium_, XCVIII as attributed in J. K. Hoyt (ed.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 727 [1896]. A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935] - I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. --unattributed author _Spectator_ (no. 7), English periodical [17111712].  ANTI-SEMITISM . . see: "BIGOTRY" see: "INTOLERANCE" see: "ISLAM" see: "JEWS" see: "NARROW-MINDEDNESS" see: "PREJUDICE" see: "RACISM" see: "EVIL" for other related links ^ How do you spot an anti-Semite? An old joke tells the story of an elderly traveler at the Vienna train station asking passersby whether they hate Jews. After a score of indignant "No's," one fellow finally admits that, why yes, he does hate them. "Thank goodness for an honest man!" exclaims the traveler. "Would you mind looking after my bags while I run to the men's room?" ^ - The Zionists and their protectors are the most detested people in all of humanity, and the hatred is increasing every day. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956) President of Iran [2005 ]. As quoted by Iranian state television on [16 July 2006]. [Israel is] a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956) President of Iran [2005 ]. At a student rally in Jakarta, Indonesia [11 May 2006]. We say that this fake regime (Israel) cannot logically continue to live. Open the doors (of Europe) and let the Jews go back to their own countries. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956) President of Iran [2005 ]. News conference [24 April 2006]. The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956) President of Iran [2005 ]. [14 April 2006] Israel must be wiped off the map. --Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (b. 1956) President of Iran [2005 ]. [26 October 2005] - - We 'Palestinians' will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.... All the rich Jews who will get compensation will travel to America.... We of the PLO will now concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to seven million Arabs living in the West Bank and in Jerusalem....You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely 'Palestinian' State....I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews. --'Palestinian' leader Yasser Arafat [30 January 1996], addressing 40 Arab diplomats at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel." - The Jews have done nothing but add to our difficulties by propaganda and deeds since the war began. . . . The morally censorious attitude of the United States in general to other people's affairs has long attracted attention, but when it is coupled with unscrupulous Zionist 'sob-stuff' and misrepresentation, it is very hard to bear. --J.T. Bennett British Colonial Office mandarin. [18 April 1941] in Bernard Wasserstein _Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945_, p. 50 [1979]. [Of Israel:] [A] shitty little country. --Daniel Bernard French ambassador to London [2003]. - Balavignus, a Jewish physician, inhabitant of Thonon, was arrested at Chillon, since he had been found in the neighborhood. He was put on the rack for a short time and when taken down confessed after much hesitation that about ten weeks before Rabbi Jacob of Toledo ... sent him by a Jewish boy ... a powder sewn into a thin leather pouch accompanied by a letter, commanding him, on pain of excommunication, and by requiring his obedience to the law, to throw this poison into the larger and more frequented wells of the town of Thonon. --Confession [15 September 1348], in the Castle of Chillon, Savoy, southeast France, by Jews arrested in Neustadt, in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 286 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: The blame for the plague was thus attached to the Jews, and Balavignuswas one of ten who confessed 'his design of destroying and extirpating all Christians'. Later centuries would use the word pogrom for just such violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism. - My cousin sat down to play a piece of Mendelssohn he liked. While I was admiring his musicianship, an officious German rushed over to the musician and rapped loudly on the piano with his knuckles, 'Stop that!' he shouted. 'That is decadent Jewish music!' --Tom Derring [1936], in Martin Gilbert _A History of the Twentieth Century_, vol. 2, p. 106 [1998]. In my opinion a disproportionate amount of the time of the Office is wasted on dealing with these wailing Jews. --A. R. Dew British Foreign Office official. [1 September 1944] in Martin Gilbert _Auschwitz and the Allies_, p. 312 [1981]. The crimes with which the Jews have been charged in the course of history crimes which were to justify the atrocties perpetrated against them have changed in rapid succession. They were supposed to have poisoned wells. They were said to have murdered children for ritual purposes. They were falsely charged with a systematic attempt at the economic domination and exploitation of all mankind. Pseudo-scientific books were written to brand them an inferior, dangerous race. They were reputed to foment wars and revolutions for their own selfish purposes. They were presented at once as dangerous innovators and as enemies of true progress. They were charged with falsifying the culture of nations by penetrating the national life under the guise of becoming assimilated. In the same breath they were accused of being so stubbornly inflexible that it was impossible for them to fit into any society. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. "Why Do They Hate The Jews?" _Collier's_ (mag.) [26 November 1938] - After May 1940 good times rapidly fled: first the war, then the capitulation, followed by the arrival of the Germans, which is when the sufferings of us Jews really began. Anti-Jewish decrees followed each other in quick succession. Jews must wear a yellow star, Jews must hand in their bicycles, Jews are banned from trams and are forbidden to drive. . . . So we walked in the pouring rain, Daddy, Mummy, and I, each with a school satchel and shopping bag filled to the brim with all kinds of things thrown together anyhow. We got sympathetic looks from people on their way to work. You could see by their faces how sorry they were they couldn't offer us a lift, the gaudy yellow star spoke for itself. --Anne Frank (19291945) German-born Jewish diarist. _Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952], "Saturday, 20 June, 1942" and "Thursday, 9 July, 1942" Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God who has made us what we are, but it will be God, too, who will rise us up again. If we bear all this suffering, and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. --Anne Frank (19291945) German-born Jewish diarist. Diary entry [11 April 1944], in __Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952]. - The development of modern means of communication will probably within the course of the twentieth century make the Jewish question a world problem which will finally be solved by other nations through the complete segregation and, if required by the needs of self-defense, the eventual annihilation of the Jewish people. --German anti-Semitic program of 1899, in Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber _The European Right: A Historical Profile_ , p. 291 [1965]. - Isn't the Jew a human being too? Of course he is; none of us ever doubted it. All we doubt is that he is a decent human being. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. _Der Angriff_ [30 July 1928] The Jews are to blame for this war. The treatment we give them does them no wrong. They have more than deserved it. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. "The Jews are Guilty" _Das Reich_ [16 November 1941] I think it is imperative to give the Jews certain public parks, not the best ones, and tell them: 'You may sit on these benches.' These benches shall be marked 'For Jews only'. Besides that they have no business in German parks. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. Quoted in _Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression_, vol. 6, by United States: Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality [1946]. - Anti-Semitism on purely emotional grounds will find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. The anti-Semitism of reason, however, must lead to the planned judicial opposition to and elimination of the privileges of the Jews. . . Yet its ultimate goal must absolutely be the removal of the Jews altogether. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [16 September 1919], in Joachim Fest _Hitler_, p. 115 [1974]. When I think about it, I realize that I am extraordinarily humane. At the time of the rule of the Popes, the Jews were mistreated in Rome. Until 1830, eight Jews mounted on donkeys were led once a year through the streets of Rome. For my part, I restrict myself to telling them that they must go away. If they break their pipes on the journey, I can't do anything about it. But if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other solution but extermination. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [23 January 1942], _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944_. - I'll never forget something that my father told me: When he was a teenager in Europe, all the walls were covered with graffiti that said, 'Jews, Go to Palestine.' And when he went back to Europe as an adult, all the walls were covered with graffiti that said, 'Jews, Get Out of Palestine.' And my father understood this message perfectly, the emotional meaning of this message, which was: Get out of here and get out of there. Just don't come to us. Don't be here and don't be there. In other words, don't be. We may not kill you that's dirty, we're not like that, but you will not be. You will die. --Amos Oz (b. 1939) Israeli writer and journalist. Interview with Ari Shavit, Haaretz.com [28 February 2002]. The cry of 'down with autocracy!' comes from the blood-suckers who are commonly known as Jews, Armenians and Poles. Beware of the Jews! They are the root of all evil, the sole cause of our misfortunes. --League of the Russian People (Black Hundreds) in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_, p. 628 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: The Jews were seen as responsible both for the Revolution and for Russia's defeat by Japan in the war of 1904-5. They come to France to make money, but the moment a fight is on, they hide behind the first tree. There are so many in the army because the Jew likes to parade around in fancy uniforms. Every country chases them out, there is a reason for that, and we must never allow them to occupy such a position in France. --Pierre Auguste Renoir (18411919) French painter. [15 January 1898]; quoted by fellow artist Edouard Manet in _Journal_ p. 148. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _The Merchant of Venice_, III, i [15961598] [Of anti-semitism:] We in the West simply do not want to believe that this kind of hatred still exists; and when it emerges, we feel uncomfortable. We do everything we can to change the subject. Why the denial, I ask myself? What is it about this sickness that we do not understand by now? And what possible excuse do we have not to expose and confront it with all the might we have? --Andrew Sullivan (b. 1963) Anglo-American journalist. "Protocols" _The New Republic_ [2 November 2001] Every son of a Jewish mother, every human being with Jewish blood in its veins, is born without honor and must therefore lack in every decent human feeling. Such a person cannot differentiate between what is pure and what is dirty. Ethically he is the lowest of the low. It follows from this that contact with a Jew dishonors; hence any contact with a Jew must be avoided. --Waidhofer Resolution of the Austrian student fraternities, [1882] in Arthur Schnitzler _My Youth in Vienna_ [1971]. From all over the world, the Children of Israel are flocking to this country, and plans are on foot to move them from Europe en masse ... to empty upon our shores the very scum and dross of the Parasite Race. --Thomas Edward Watson (18561922) American politician. _Watson's Magazine_ v. 2I [1915] p.296. ----- Semitic (adj.) [sκ-'mi-tik] Pertaining to the Semites: the Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Ethiopic, and Assyrian peoples. Also pertaining to an Afro-Asiatic family of languages that includes Hebrew, Aramaic and modern Syriac, Amharic, Tigrι, and others, all clearly sharing a common stock and origin. Usage: A Semitic person is a "Semite" and a "Semiticism" is a Semitic word or turn of phrase, as "algebra" (from Arabic) and "shibboleth" (from Hebrew) are Semiticisms in the English language. Hebrew and Arabic are sister languages (Hebrew shalom = Arabic salaam "peace"). Since World War II, however, when the people of Jewish descent were so severely persecuted, the term has been more closely associated with them than with their Arabic sisters and brothers. Now, "anti-Semitic" in the minds of most English- speakers refers to prejudice against Jews rather than against all Semitic peoples. . . see: "WORRY" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links see: "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [8 October 1712] Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher. _Royal Truths_, p. 241 [1862] Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due. --attributed to William Ralph Inge (18601954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [19111934]. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. _The Diary of Anaοs Nin_, vol. 4 [Written 19441947 & first published in 1966.] Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. --Samuel Rogers (17631855) English poet. _Italy_ [18221828] "Foreign Travel" The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety. --Eric Sevareid (19121992) American news commentator. _This is Eric Sevareid_ (New York: McGraw-Hill) [1964] Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. --attributed to Charles Haddon Spurgeon (18341892) English nonconformist preacher. For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. --Edwin Way Teale (18991980) American naturalist, writer, and photographer. _Circle of the Seasons_ [1953] ----- compunction [kuhm-PUHNK-shuhn], noun: 1. Anxiety or deep unease proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain. 2. A sting of conscience or a twinge of uneasiness; a qualm; a scruple. distrait [dis-TRAY], adjective: Divided or withdrawn in attention, especially because of anxiety. solicitous [suh-LIS-uh-tuhs], adjective: 1. Manifesting or expressing care or concern. 2. Full of anxiety or concern; apprehensive. 3. Extremely careful; meticulous. 4. Full of desire; eager. tenterhooks [TEN-ter-hooks], noun: "On tenterhooks," in a state of uneasy suspense or painful anxiety.  APATHY . . see: "INDIFFERENCE" for related links Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist and politician. _Devereux_, bk. II, ch. I [1829] - Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie Dust unto dust The calm, sweet earth that mothers all who die As all men must; Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell Too strong to strive Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, Buried alive; But rather mourn the apathetic throng The cowed and the meek Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak! --Ralph Chaplin (18871961) American poet, writer, and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. "Mourn Not the Dead" in _Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin_ [1922]. - If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. _The Second World War_, vol I "The Gathering Storm" [1948] - It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. --John Philpot Curran (17501817) Irish judge. Speech on the Right of Election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin [10 July 1790]. & note: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. --Wendell Phillips (18111884) American abolitionist and reformer. Paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (above) in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852, according to _The Dictionary of Quotations_ edited by Bergen Evans. - ....and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones. But they were Foreign Children and it didn't really matter. --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. Political cartoon caption, in "PM Newspaper" (NY) [1 October 1941]. We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathetic. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Elective Affinities_ [1809] The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. "American LiteratureDr. Channing," in _The Edinburgh Review_ [October 1829] The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. --Robert Maynard Hutchins (18991977) American philosopher. _Great Books of Western World_, vol. I, ch. 10 [1952] We may have found a cure for most evils; but [we have] found no remedy for the worst of them all the apathy of human beings. --Helen Keller (18801968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. _My Religion_ [1927] He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. --Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist. _The Notebooks_ [15081518] The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. In New York _Herald Tribune_ "Roosevelt is Gone" [14 April 1945]. The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. --Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (16891755) French philosopher, jurist, and satirist. _The Spirit of the Laws_ [1748] Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. --George Jean Nathan (18821958) American drama critic and editor. Attributed in Clifton Fadiman (ed.) _The American Treasury, 14551955_ [1955]. When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church and there was nobody left to be concerned. --Martin Niemφller (18921984) German theologian. In "Congressional Record" [14 October 1968, p. 31636]. If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. Quoted in Bryan B. Sterling (ed.) _The Best of Will Rogers_ [1990]. It's terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it's still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep --Taras Shevchenko (18141861) Ukranian poet. "The Days Go By", l. 21 [21 December 1845] Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them. --William Howard Taft (18571930) 27th President of the United States [19091913] and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [19211930]. Quoted in Israel M. Flapan _The Art of Effective Public Speaking_ [1942]. Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. --Talmud (A.D.1st6th cent.) Rabbinical writings. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. --Eliezer [Elie] Wiesel (b. 1928) Romanian Jew and Holocaust survivor; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. 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