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	ARISTOCRACY ARIZONA --- ARLEN (HAROLD) ARMY --- ARROGANCE ---ART . . . ARISTOCRACY see "PEOPLE" for related links Aristocracy has three successive ages,--the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, and the age of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third. --François-René de Chateaubriand (1768—1848) French writer and diplomat. - The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand. --Noël Coward (1899—1973) English playwright, actor, and composer. "The Stately Homes of England" [1938 song] and see: The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. --Felicia Hemans (1793—1835) English poet. "The Homes of England" [1849] - And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who! --Daniel Defoe (1660—1731) English novelist and journalist. ARIZONA . . Photograph: Sedona. see "PLACES" for related links Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know. --Charles Kuralt (1934—1997) American journalist and broadcaster. _Dateline America_ [1979] - Come to Arizona, where summer spends the winter. --anon. ...And where Hell spends the summer. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. - ARLEN (HAROLD) . . ARLEN, HAROLD [Hyman Arluck] (1905-1986) see "MUSIC" for related links see "PEOPLE" for related links He wasn't as well known as some of us, but he was a better songwriter than most of us, and will be missed by all of us. --Irving Berlin (1888—1989) American songwriter. [Upon Arlen's death in 1986.] Harold is the most original of all of us. --George Gershwin (1898—1937) American composer. ARMY . . see "WAR & PEACE" for related links - The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. --Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929]. Speech at Northhampton, Massachusetts, accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination [27 July 1920]. No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. --Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929]. - Old soldiers never die, They simply fade away. --J. Foley (1906-1970) British songwriter, "Old Soldies Never Die" [1920 song] (possibly from the First World War) Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. --Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715—1771) French philosopher. For a free people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. - As a long-time collector of idiotic statements I've noticed that where race once inspired the most sublime idiocies, today's Best Of are inspired by women in the military. They are also much easier to find. Key phrases fairly leap off the page: `` pregnant sailors . . .Army called too aggressive . . . lighter and less dangerous hand grenades . . . stepladders added to obstacle courses . . . a training program to stamp out profanity at Fort Hood . . . the possibility of single mothers taking babies to war . . . '' These are statements to read through spread fingers, the way jurors look at autopsy photos. Morning papers are especially dangerous because sudden movements can make you spill hot coffee in your lap. --Florence King (1936— ) American journalist, essayist, and novelist. - The consul called the troops an army who had betrayed military discipline and deserted its standards. He then asked them individually where their weapons were, or their standards, as the case might be, and gave orders that every soldier who had lost his equipment, every standard-bearer who had lost his standard, every centurion, too, who had abandoned his post, should be first flogged and then beheaded. The remainder were decimated. --Livy [Titus Livius] (59 BC—17 AD) with Sallust and Tacitus, one of the three great Roman historians [EB]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major note that: This is the earliest recorded example of decimation, the selection by lot of every tenth man for execution. It is probably an instance of the creation of an early precedent for a later practice. It was rarely carried out but was revived at the end of the Republic and used from time to time by emperors. Physical courage is never in short supply in a fighting army. Moral courage sometimes is. --Matthew B Ridgway (1895—1993) American army general who planned and executed the first major airborne assault in U.S. military history with an attack on Sicily [July 1943]. In _The Korean War_ [1967]. I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlish — that is, wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war. --H. Norman Schwarzkopf, III (1934— ) American general who commanded the U.S. forces in the Gulf War of 1991. In "New York Times" [28 January 1991]. Air power is our initial line of defense, but no one has proved to my satisfaction that we will have only world wars to be settled only by big bangs. . . . Infantrymen at one time or another become indispensable. Nothing we have discovered will reduce the need for brave men to fight our battles. --Maxwell D. Taylor (1901—1987) American army general and diplomat. c.1955, quoted in his obituary in the "New York Times" [21 April 1987]. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" [1854] The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. --Motto of the United States Army Service Forces in World War II --- Dear United States Army: My husband asked me to write a recommend that he supports his family. He cannot read, so don't tell him. Just take him. He ain't no good to me. He ain't done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eating. Take him and welcome. I need his grub and the bed for the kids. Don't tell him this, but just take him. --Anonymous hand-delievered in 1943 by an Arkansas man to his draft board. In _A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love_, compiled and edited by Jon Winokur. ----- billet (noun) 1. nonmilitary lodging assigned to troops, esp. in a private home. Synonyms: quarters 2: a military order making such an assignment. Part of Speech transitive verb Inflected: billeted, billeting, billets 1: to assign lodging to (a member of the military). Part of Speech intransitive verb 1: of military personnel, to be lodged; stay. ARROGANCE . . see: "BRAGGING" see: "BOLDNESS" see: "CONCEIT" see: "HUBRIS" see: "INSULTS" see: "NERVE (THE)" see: "SNOBS" see: "VANITY" When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance." --Aelian [Claudius Aelianus] (c. 170—222) Roman author and teacher of rhetoric. Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. --Bion the Borysthenite (325?—255? B.C.) Greek popular philosopher. When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities. --David Hume (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher. ^^ In 1959, I [Carl Reiner] appeared in a movie called Happy Anniversary, and Mel Brooks came to the wrap party for the cast and crew at a restaurant in the Village. Moss Hart was dining with his wife on the other side of the room. Mel recognized him. All of a sudden, he got up and walked across to Hart's table and said, very loudly, 'Hello. You don't know who I am. My name is Mel Brooks. Do you know who you are? Your name is Moss Hart. Do you know what you've written? You wrote 'Once in a Lifetime' with George S. Kaufman, and 'You Can't Take It with You' and 'The Man Who Came to Dinner'. You wrote 'Lady in the Dark' and you directed "My Fair Lady". And he ran right through the list of Hart's credits. You should be more arrogant! he shouted. You have earned the right to be supercilious! Why are you letting me talk to you? --http://anecdotage.com/ ^^ Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. --Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959) American architect. ----- supercilious soo-puhr-SIL-ee-uhs, (adj.): Disdainfully arrogant; haughty. ART . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. --Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850) French journalist and writer. Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. --attributed to Lord Beaverbrook (1879—1964) Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.] I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another — "And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. --Al Capp (1909—1979) American cartoonist. Art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its handkerchief, that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance too. --W. E. B. Dubois (1868—1963) American civil rights leader. _Dusk of Dawn_ [1940] Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. "Wealth "_The Conduct of Life_ [1860] Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. --Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880) French novelist. One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The Marble Faun_ [1860] Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. --George Stillman Hillard (1808—1879) American lawyer and author. Dead he is not, but departed — for the artist never dies. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. _Nuremberg_, st. 13 Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. --Amy Lowell (1874—1925) American poet. Posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. ^ Henri Matisse (1869—1954) French painter. Matisse's painting, _Le Bateau_ hung upside down in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for forty-seven days before anyone noticed (October 18-December 4, 1961). In that period 116,000 had visited the gallery. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^^ 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 André Bernard [2000] ^^ Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future — do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all!' --Claude Monet (1840-1926) French painter who was the leader of the Impressionist movement in France. A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. --Louis Nizer (1902—1994) English-born American lawyer. ^^ A visitor to Picasso's studio found the artist gazing disconsolately at a painting on the easel. 'It's a masterpiece,' said the visitor, hoping to cheer Picasso up. 'No, the nose is all wrong,' Picasso said. 'It throws the whole picture out of perspective.' 'Then why not alter the nose?' 'Impossible,' Picasso said. 'I can't find it.' _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Art and Artists" ^^ A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723—1792) English painter. I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. --Brian Sewell British art historian and critic. In "Independent" [26 April 1999]. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. --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_ [1903], act I I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. [28 May 1867] Modern Art is a conspiracy between clever parasites and millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922—2007) American novelist and short-story writer. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. --Emile Zola (1840—1902) French novelist and critic. In Stephen P. Kelner _Motivate Your Writing!_, p. 153 [2005]. - In 1962 Vincent Price was approached by George Struthers, Sears's vice president of merchandising, who believed his company could sell fine art to the American public the same way it sold lawn mowers and ladies' underwear. Price agreed to pick the pieces and serve as spokesman, and the Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art was off and running, first in Sears's Denver store, then in other stores across the country, with a mail-order line added the following year. Not surprisingly, much fun was poked at the idea of Sears going into the fine-art business. The New Yorker even ran a cartoon about it ("It's not generally known, but we picked up this little Rembrandt etching at Sears, Roebuck"). But the company had the last laugh: During Sears's nine years in the art trade, it sold some 50,000 works at prices ranging from $30 to $3,000, many of them bought on installment plans that made it possible to purchase certain works for as little as $5 down and $5 a month. The prices were affordable, too, with Picasso's lithograph "Frederic Joliet Curie" going for $300, the equivalent of $1,850 in today's dollars — just about what the same print costs now. --Terry Treachout (1956— ) American critic. In "The Wall Street Journal" "Before Costco There Was … Vincent Price?" [23 August 2005]. ----- aesthetics or esthetics (noun) (used with a sing. verb) A branch of philosophy that deals with formal beauty in art. atelier (noun) A studio especially for an artist or designer. Synonyms: artist's workroom limn [LIM], transitive verb: 1. To depict by drawing or painting. 2. To portray in words; to describe. In telling these people's stories Mr. Butler draws upon the same gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages. --Michiko Kakutani, "Earthlings May Endanger Your Peaceful Rationality," _New York Times_, [10 March 2000] oeuvre (noun) ['oo-vrê or œvr] A creative work or body of creative work. pastiche [pas-TEESH; pahs-], noun: 1. A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work. 2. A musical, literary, or artistic composition consisting of selections from various works. 3. A hodgepodge; an incongruous combination of different styles and ingredients. patina [PAT-n-uh; puh-TEEN-uh], noun: 1. The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. 2. The sheen on any surface, produced by age and use. 3. An appearance or aura produced by habit, practice, or use. A patina of coal dust lies over everything. -- "A Railroad Runs Through It," review of _Stations: An Imagined Journey, by Michael Flanagan,_ in _New York Times_ [23 October 1994] potboiler [POT-boi-lur], noun: A usually inferior literary or artistic work, produced quickly for the purpose of making money. socle (noun) ['so-kêl] A plain square block that serves as a pedestal for a sculpture, vase, or column. virtu noun: 1. A love of or taste for fine objects of art. 2. Productions of art (especially fine antiques). 3. Artistic quality. Ex.: "Divans, Persian rugs, easy chairs, books, statuary, articles of virtu and bric-a-brac are on every side, and the whole has the appearance of a place where one could dream his life away." --"Mark Twain's Summer Home," _The New York Times_ [10 September 1882] end page | ABILITY - ABUSE | ACADEMY AWARDS - ACCUSTOMED | ACHIEVEMENT - ACQUAINTANCE | ACTIONS | ACTORS | 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 End | The Reviews | Photos |

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