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![]() . . . APPLAUSE see: "ADMIRATION" see: "FAME" see: "FLATTERY" see: "GLORY" see: "POPULARITY" see: "REPUTATION" see: "SUCCESS" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous, or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. --attributed to George Matthew Adams (18781962) American newspaper columnist. Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Quoted in Watson Adams _The Rule of Life; Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences_ [1834]. Popular applause veers with the wind. --attributed to John Bright (18111889) English politician and orator. Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. --Sir Richard Francis Burton (18211890) English scholar-explorer and Orientalist. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. or. Lay of the Higher Law [1880] - When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXCIII [1821 ed.] Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCCXXIV [1821 ed.] - [Responding to his wife Marilyn Monroe's statement after returning from entertaining troops in Korea, 'You never heard such cheering!':] Yes, I have. --Joe DiMaggio (19141999) American professional baseball player. Quoted in "Esquire" [July 1966]. Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect; but woman's heart has holier idols. --Augusta Jane Evans (18351909) American novelist. _Beulah_ [1860] ^ Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. At a meeting of a Parisian literary society Franklin found himself a bit at sea as flowery compliments in French were exchanged. He decided it would be safest to clap only when he saw a lady of his acquaintance applauding. After the gathering was over, Franklin's little grandson said, 'But, Grandpapa, you always applauded, and louder than anyone else, when they praised you.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. --Judy Garland [Frances Gumm] (19221969) American motion-picture singer and actress. Attributed in Barbara Rowes _The Book of Quotes_ [1979]. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. --attributed to Samuel Goldwyn [Schmuel Gelbfisz] (18821974) American film producer. Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. _Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1761] It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. --David Hume (17111776) Scottish philosopher. Attributed in James Comper Gray _The Biblical Museum: Old Testament_, p. 245 [1876]. - The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ (entry of 1780) [1791]. Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English journal) [7 January 1752] He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Idler_ [17581760] (essays in the newspaper "The Universal Chronicle") [7 October 1758] - The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. --Hannah More (17451833) English religious writer. Quoted in William Roberts _Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More_ [1834]. We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. --Josι Narosky (b. 1930) Argentine writer. Quoted in Anthony St Peter _The Greatest Quotations of All-Time_ [2010]. On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin "ovis," a sheep. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Parallel Lives_, Dryden edition [1693] That thirst [for applause] if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones. --John Ruskin (18191900) English art and social critic. _Sesame and Lilies_, Lecture 2 [1865] Hats off, gentlemen a genius! --Robert Schumann (18101856) German composer. On first hearing Frιdιric Chopin's music, in "Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung" [December 1831]. The small hall echoed with stormy applause, rising to an ovation! ... However, who would dare to be the *first* to stop? ... After eleven minutes the director of the paper factory assumed a business-like expression and sat down in his seat ... That same night the factory director was arrested [and] his interrogator reminded him: 'Don't ever be the first to stop applauding!' --Alexander Solzhenitsyn (19182008) Russian novelist. _The Gulag Archipelago_, pp.27-28. [1999 edn.] Nothing is more difficult than to bear the applause of fools, and I would willingly be hissed if I could only reward the 'Bravi' of an ignoramus by boxing his ears. --attributed to Carl Maria von Weber (17861826) German composer and opera director. Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth. ... but either the one or the other should set us upon careful self-examination. --Richard Whately (17871863) English philosopher and theologian. "Discourse on the Treason of Judas Iscariot" in _Essays On Some Of The Dangers To Christian Faith_ [1839] ----- claque KLACK, noun: 1. A group hired to applaud at a performance. 2. A group of fawning admirers. plaudit [PLAW-dit], noun: 1. A round or demonstration of applause. 2. Enthusiastic approval; an expression of praise. ![]() ![]() APPLES . . . see: "FOOD & DRINK" for related links An apple a day keeps the doctor away. --"Anaconda Standard" (Montana) [23 December 1900] Note: According to Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006], "In 1866 'Notes and Queries' recorded "A Pembrokeshire Proverb" " 'Eat an apple on going to bed, And you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.' " The apple does not fall far from the tree. --"Daily Gleaner" (Kingston, Jamaica) [1 June 1911] [On being told at a party that people were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. Quoted in _The Algonquin Wits_ (ed.) Robert E. Drennan [1968]. ![]() . . see: "ADMIRATION" see: "GRATITUDE" see: "TASTE" see: "THANKFULNESS" & "THANKSGIVING" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live. --Elizabeth Akers Allen (18321911) American poet. "Until Death", (pub. as anon.) in William Cullen Bryant (ed.) _A New Library of Poetry and Song_ [1876]. - The worst things: To try to sleep and sleep not. To wait for one who comes not. To try to please and please not. --Arabian Proverb & see: The worst things: To have felt a love and not to have shown it, To have had it all and not to have known it. --Joy Huott - Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own. --Isaac Barrow (16301677) English classical scholar, theologian, and mathematician who was a teacher of Isaac Newton. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 29 [15th ed. 1894]. Appreciate Me Now, and Avoid the Rush. --Ashleigh Brilliant (b. 1933) British-born American writer and artist. Title of 1981 book. I know not why we should delay our tokens of respect to those who deserve them, until the heart that our sympathy could have gladdened has ceased to beat. As men cannot read the epitaphs inscribed upon the marble that covers them, so the tombs that we erect to virtue often only prove our repentance that we neglected it when with us. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist, playwright, and politician. Quoted in Craufurd Tait Ramage _Great Thoughts from Latin Authors_, p. 178 [3rd ed. 1884]. Thank you for nothing. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 1 [1605] According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do in front of other women. They say that women are too judgemental, whereas, of course, men are just grateful. --attributed to Robert De Niro, Jr. (b. 1943) American actor. Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. Attributed in _Indianapolis Medical Journal_, vol XXII, p. 628 [1919] I feel a very unusual sensation if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. Quoted in _Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy_, vol. 58, p. 23 [1948] The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Scenes of Clerical Life_ [1857] (Published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine) - Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_, entry of 6 May 1840 [pub. in 10 vols., 19101914] The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Letters and Social Aims_ [1876] "Quotation and Originality" - We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand; and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Faust_ [1806] Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. --Fulke Greville (15541628) English philosophical poet. _Maxims, Characters and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral_, XCVIII [2nd ed., 1757] We pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. "Memorial Day Address" Keene, N.H. [30 May 1884]. The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Ventures in Common Sense_ [1919] I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all, and the toiler's truest and best reward. --William Dean Howells (18371920) American novelist and critic. Quoted in Orison Swett Marden _How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves_, ch. XI [1901] (From an interview in Success Magazine.) I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania". _The Philistine_ (mag.), v. 14, #1 [1 December 1901] The deepest principle in Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. 1896 letter to students who had sent him a plant for Easter. It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld_ [William Gowans, New York, 1851] Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. --attributed to Robert S. McNamara (19162009) American Democratic politician. - What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. --Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (17371809) English-American writer and political pamphleteer. "The American Crisis" (a pamphlet) no. 1 [19 December 1776] & see: People generally do not appreciate what they do not suffer for. A thing is held to be cheap if it did not cost dearly. Honor is lightly worn if it was easily attained. Inherited liberty is too often carelessly used until it is repossessed through sacrifices. --Fred Robert Tiffany, D.D. Attributed in Jacob Morton Braude _Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers_ [1967]. - You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older: little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman stuff you pay good money for in later life. --Emo Phillips [Philip Soltanec] (b. 1956) American comedian. Quoted in Geoff Tibballs _The Mammoth Book of Humor_ [2000]. Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors Are barren in return. --Nicholas Rowe (16741718) English dramatist, writer, and poet. "Tamerlane", act 2, sc. 2 [1701] It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. --John Ruskin (18191900) English art and social critic. _Modern Painters_, vol. I, pt. i [1848, 4th ed.] But we live through the fine days without noticing them; only when we fall on evil ones do we wish to have back the former. With sour faces we let a thousand bright and pleasant hours slip by unenjoyed and afterwards vainly sigh for their return when times are trying and depressing. Instead of this, we should cherish every present moment that is bearable, even the most ordinary, which with such indifference we now let slip by, and even with impatience push on. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) _Parerga and Paralipomena_ [1861] Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. --Sir Richard Steele (16721729) Irish-born essayist and dramatist. _The Guardian_ #24 [8 April 1713] - Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935] If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar", ch. 16 - By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Attributed in Julia B. Hoitt _Excellent Quotations For Home and School_, p. 33 [1890] The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. --attributed to Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes Expanded, shine with azure, green and gold; How blessings brighten as they take their flight. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts", II, l. 589 [17421745] ![]() ![]() APPROVAL . . see: "ACCEPTANCE" see: "AGREEMENT" see: "RESPECT" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (18301916) Austrian writer. _Aphorisms_ [1905], as quoted in Bill Swainson (ed.) _Encarta Book of Quotations_ [2000]. - (Verse 1) At words poetic, I'm so pathetic That I always have found it best, Instead of getting 'em off my chest, To let 'em rest Unexpressed. I hate parading My serenading, As I'll probably miss a bar, But if this ditty Is not so pretty, At least it'll tell you How great you are. (Chorus 1) You're the top! You're the Colosseum. 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 sonnet, You're Mickey Mouse. You're the Nile, You're the Tow'r 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! "You're The Top" [1934 song] Words and music by Cole Porter (18921964) American songwriter. - A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it. --Ayn Rand (19051982) Russian-born American writer. _The Fountainhead_, ch. 11 [1943] My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. --Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. Letter to his wife [1783]. We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. --John Selden (15841654) English historian. _Table Talk_ [1689] Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. --Tao-te Ching (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power) Classic of Chinese philosophical literature. The name was first used during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.220 A.D.) and had been previously called Lao-tzu. In John Beverley Butcher _The Tao of Jesus_ [1994]. 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] ----- approbation [ap-ruh-BAY-shuhn], noun: 1. The act of approving; formal or official approval. 2. Praise; commendation. imprimatur [im-prih-MAH-tur], noun: 1. Official license or approval to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; especially, such a license issued by the Roman Catholic episcopal authority. 2. Approval; sanction. 3. A mark of approval or distinction. plaudit [PLAW-dit], noun: 1. A round or demonstration of applause. 2. Enthusiastic approval; an expression of praise. ![]() . . see: "NATURE" see: "TIME" April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Oh, to be in England Now that April's there ... In England now! --Robert Browning (18121889) English poet. "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" [1845] Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May, So if it's raining, have no regrets, Because it isn't raining rain you know, It's raining violets. --B.G. DeSylva (18951950) American songwriter. "April Showers" in the 1921 musical _Bomba_. And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. --John Drinkwater (18821937) English poet and dramatist. "Cotswold Love" April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. Opening lines "The Waste Land" [1922]. The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May, But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. "Two Tramps in Mud Time" Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. Attributed in Connie Robertson _Book of Humorous Quotations_, p. 112 [1998]. To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. --Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950) American poet. "Spring" in _Second April_ [1921] It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. Opening lines of _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1948]. ^ George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and poet. When Santayana came into a sizable legacy, he was able to relinquish his post on the Harvard faculty. The classroom was packed for his final appearance, and Santayana did himself proud. He was about to conclude his remarks when he caught sight of a forsythia beginning to blossom in a patch of muddy snow outside the window. He stopped abruptly, picked up his hat, gloves, and walking stick, and made for the door. 'Gentlemen,' he said softly, 'I shall not be able to finish that sentence. I have just discoved I have an appointment with Spring.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000] ^ No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December when they wed: --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _As You Like It_, IV, i [1599] Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers. --Thomas Tusser (c.15241580) English agricultural writer and poet. _A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry_ [1557] "April's Husbandry" April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894], ch. 21 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" When April pours the colors of a shell Upon the hills, and every little creek Is shot with silver from the Chesapeake In shoals new-minted by the ocean swell, When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well we shall live very well. --Elinor Wylie (nιe Hoyt) (18851928) American poet and novelist. 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