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BED
BEER --- BEETHOVEN
BEGGARS --- BEGINNINGS

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BED


see: "DREAMS"
see: "NIGHT"
see: "REST"
see: "SLEEP"
see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links


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Early to bed and early to rise makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
--John Clarke (1596—1658)
Comp. _Proverbs: English and Latine_ [1639]

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male
healthy and wealthy and dead.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks" _New Yorker_ [18 February 1939]

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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance,
yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every
night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every
morning to keep it late.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_ [1865 ed.]

You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;
You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule
Should ever be kept at the front:—
Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
--Edmund Vance Cooke (1866—1932)
Canadian poet.
"Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed", l. 7 [1903]

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
--Phyllis Diller (b. 1917)
American comedian.
_Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints_ [1966]

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
--Thomas C. Haliburton (1796—1865)
Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known
as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick.
_Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances_, vol. 2, p. 106 [2 vol., 1853]

O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head!
--Thomas Hood (1799—1845)
English poet and humorist.
_Miss Kilmansegg, Her Dream_

To rise at six, to dine at ten,
To sup at six, to sleep at ten,
Makes a man live for ten times ten.
--Inscription on Victor Hugo's study

I should of stood in bed.
--Joe Jacobs (1896—1940)
American boxing manager.
(After leaving a sickbed to attend the World
Series in Detroit [October 1935] and betting
on the loser.)
Quoted in _Reno Evening Gazette_ [30 December 1935].

[During a 1956 visit to the President of Nigeria,
who was dressed in traditional robes:]
You look like you're ready for bed!
--Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
Consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
Quoted in "Did I say that?" compiled by
John Hind, _The Observer_ [21 June 2009].

As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
--Dorothy L. Sayers (1893—1957)
English writer of detective fiction.
Quoted in Janet Hitchman _Such a Strange Lady_ [1975].

PISANIO: I have not slept one wink.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Cymbeline_ [1609]




BEER

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see: "ALCOHOL" for related links


I have never gotten into wine. I'm a beer man.
What I like about beer is you basically just drink
it, then you order another one. You don't sniff at
it, or hold it up to the light and slosh it around,
and above all you don't drone on and on about it,
the way people do with wine. Your beer drinker
tends to be a straightforward, decent, friendly,
down-to-earth person who enjoys talking about
the importance of relief pitching, whereas your
serious wine fancier tends to be an insufferable
snot.
--Dave Barry (b. 1947)
American humorist.
_Dave Barry's Greatest Hits_ [1988] "Daze of Wine and Roses"

[I]t was World War II that made beer the American drink. In
the years after Prohibition ended in 1933, the nation's stocks
of whisky and gin were hardly deep. And the war didn't help.
After Pearl Harbor, distilleries were turned to war work,
producing industrial alcohol with which to make synthetic
rubber and torpedo fuel. (The distillers manufacturing this
fuel eventually had to introduce noxious chemicals into the
mix to discourage submariners from drinking their torpedoes'
go-juice.) But beer-making was considered part of the war
effort — in no small part because brewers contributed 15%
of their output directly to the troops. By the end of the war,
civilians and returning soldiers alike had solidified a taste
for beer.
--Eric Felten,
reviewing Maureen Ogle's _Ambitious Brew_
"The Wall Street Journal" [28 October 2006].

I never drank anything stronger than
beer before I was twelve.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946)
American vaudeville star and film actor.
Quoted in Robert Lewis Taylor, _W.C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes_ [1949].

It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of
coffee used by my subjects ... If possible, this must be
prevented. My people must drink beer.
--Frederick II [Frederick the Great] (1712—1786)
King of Prussia [1740—1786].
Proclamation [13 September 1777]

I downed the contents of the pot in eleven seconds,
left the Sconcemaster floundering, and entered the
Guinness Book of Records with the fastest time ever
recorded. This feat was to endear me to some of
my fellow Australians more than anything else I
ever achieved.
--Bob Hawke (b. 1929)
Prime Minister of Australia [1983—1991].
After drinking 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds, _Hawke Memoirs_ [1994].

But the greatest love — the love of all loves,
Even greater than that of a mother...
Is the tender, passionate, undying love,
Of one beer drunken slob for another.
--Irish Love Ballad

I wish to see this beverage become common
instead of the whisky which kills one-third of
our citizens and ruins their families.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
(On beer, in a letter to Charles Yancey [6 January 1816] - ODTQ.)

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
--Henry Lawson (1867—1922)
Australian writer and poet.
Quoted in Denton Prout _Henry Lawson: The Grey Dreamer_ [1963].

[On tasting his first American beer:]
Put it back in the horse!
--H. Allen Smith (1907—1976)
American journalist and humorist.
Attributed.

Give an Irishman lager for a month, and he's a dead man.
An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes
it. But whisky polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Life on the Mississippi_, ch. 23 [1883]

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Well ya see Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo
can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when
the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones
at the back that are killed first. This natural selection
is good for the herd as a whole, because the general
speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by
the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way, the human brain can only
operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive
intake of alcohol, as we all know, kills brain cells,
but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain
cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer
eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a
faster and more efficient machine.

That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.

--The Buffalo Theory on beer drinking, Cliff Clavin, _Cheers_

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Homer no function beer well without.
--dialogue "The Simpsons"
[Homer Simpson in 'Movementarians' episode.]

For every £3 of consumer spending in Britain only
1 p goes on books—12 times as much goes on beer.
_The Economist_ [27 April 1985]



BEETHOVEN

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see: "MUSIC" for related links
see: "PEOPLE" for related links


It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the
ear of man.
--E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879—1970)
English novelist.
_Howards End_ [1910]

To us musicians the work of Beethoven parallels the
smoke and fire which led the Israelites through the
desert.
--Franz Liszt (1811—1886)
Hungarian composer and pianist.
Letter to Wilhelm von Lenz [1852].

[On Beethoven's 9th:]
Nobody will ever write anything better
than this symphony.
--Sergei Rachmaninov (1873—1943)
Russian composer and pianist.
Quoted in Sergei Bertenssen and Jay Leyda's
_Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music_ [1965].

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance,
and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then
there's something wrong.
--Simon Rattle (b. 1955)
"Guardian" [31 May 1990]

[Critique of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony:]
An orgy of vulgar noise.
--Louis Spohr (1784—1859)
German composer, violinist, and conductor.
Quoted in Sir Donald Francis Tovey
_Essays in Musical Analysis_ [1935-39].



BEGGARS

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see: "CHARITY"
see: "HUNGER"
see: "POVERTY"
see: "MONEY" for other related links


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Peter Altenberg (1862?—1919)
Austrian poet.

Though in fact he maintained a very solid
bank balance, Altenberg had a mania for
begging. The poet and critic Karl Kraus
tells how Altenberg besought him again
and again to give him a hundred kronen,
and on every occasion Kraus refused him.
Finally, his patience at an end, Kraus
burst out, "Look Peter, I'd gladly give it
to you, but I *really, really* don't have
the money."
"Very well, I'll lend it to you," said
Altenberg.

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

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Once I built a railroad, made it run,
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
--E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896—1981)
American songwriter.
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" [1932 song] (music by Jay Gorney).

A man who shows me his wealth is like a
begger who shows me his poverty; they are
both looking for alms — the rich man for
the alms of my envy, the poor man for the
alms of my guilt.
--Ben Hecht (1893—1964)
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
_A Child of the Century_ [1954]

To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside;
Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
--Robert Herrick (1591—1674)
English poet and clergyman.
"No Bashfulnesse in Begging"

Beggars should be no choosers.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_, pt. I, ch. x [1546]

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give
to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.
--attributed to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.

Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VI_ pt. III, I, iv [1590-1591]

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cadge [KAJ], transitive verb:
To beg or obtain by begging; to sponge.
intransitive verb:
To beg; to sponge.

entreat [en-TREET], intransitive verb:
To make an earnest petition or request; to plead.

mendicant (noun)['men-dκ-kκnt]
(1) A beggar.
(2) A friar that belongs to an order that
prohibits the possession of property and
who must beg alms for a living as a result.

supplicate [SUP-luh-kayt] intransitive verb:
1. To make a humble and earnest petition; to pray humbly.
2. To seek or ask for humbly and earnestly.
3. To make a humble petition to; to beseech.

tatterdemalion (noun) [at-ur-dih-MAIL-yuhn];
A person dressed in tattered or ragged clothing;
a ragamuffin. adjective: Tattered; ragged.



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BEGINNINGS

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see: "CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES"
see: "ENDINGS"
see: "INVENTION(S)"
see: "PAST (THE)"


Well begun is half done.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Politics_, V

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly
buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
--Giordano [Filippo] Bruno (1548—1600)
Italian philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
In John Emerich & Edward Dalberg
_The Cambridge Modern History_, p. 707 [1904].

You begin saving the world by saving one man at
a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
--Charles Bukowski (1920—1994)
German-born American poet.
"Too Sensitive" in _Tales of Ordinary Madness_ [1967]

'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and
go on till you come to the end: then stop.'
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch. 12 [1865]

[Of the Battle of Egypt:]
The Germans have received back again that measure
of fire and steel which they have so often meted out
to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the
beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of
the beginning.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
Speech, Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House following the
victory at El Alameinin, North Africa, London [10 November 1942].

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_De officiis_ (On Duties), I, 21 [44 BC]


Every morning is a fresh beginning,
Listen my soul to the glad refrain.
And, spite of old sorrows
And older sinning,
Troubles forecasted
And possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.
--Susan Coolidge "New Every Morning" in
_The Writer's Almanac_ [6 December 2003].

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
--Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697—1780)
French hostess and patron of the arts.
Letter to Horace Walpole [6 June 1767].

He who is outside the door has already
a good part of his journey behind him.
--Dutch proverb

In my beginning is my end.
--T.S. Eliot (1888—1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Burnt Norton_ [1936]

[Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), speaking to Louis Renault (Claude Rains):]
Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
--Julius J. Epstein (1909—2000), Philip G. Epstein (1909—1952),
and Howard Koch (1902—1995), "Casablanca" [1942].

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Life begins at 40 — but so do fallen arches,
rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency
to tell a story to the same person, three or
four times.
--attributed to William Feather (1889—1981)
and Helen Rowland (1875—1950).

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Anyone who says that life begins at forty is full of it.
--attributed to Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989)
American actress.

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Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold
is the place of expectation.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) [1795—1796]

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_, pt. I, ch. x [1546]

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
Lib. i. Ep. ii. 39 (Cowley trans.)
Quoted in _Rambler_, no. 108 [30 March 1751].

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often
we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us.
--Helen Keller (1880—1968)
American author and educator who was blind and deaf.
_We Bereaved_ [1929]

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A journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step.
--saying, Chinese. Popularized by John Fitzgerald Kennedy announcing
treaty banning the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons [26 July 1963].

note:

A tower of nine storeys begins with a heap of earth.
The journey of a thousand li starts from where one stands.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
the first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power.)

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Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where
you are, with what you have, and that will always
lead you into something greater.
--Mary Manin Morrissey (b. 1949)
In Ivica Crnkovic
_Implementing and Integrating Product Data_, p. 159 [2003].

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new
day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of
magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
--J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (1894—1984)
English novelist, playwright and critic.
_Delight_, p. 170 [1949]

Good to begin well, better to end well.
--John Ray (1627—1705)
English naturalist and botanist.
_A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1678]

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
--Beverly Sills (1929—2007)
American opera singer.
Quoted in _Time_, vol. 117 (Issues 18-26) [1981].

Don't judge each day by the harvest
you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
--attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
_In Memoriam_ canto CVI [1850]

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ab ovo [ab-OH-voh], adverb:
From the beginning.
Ex; I will begin ab ovo -- at the very beginning.
--Leo Tolstoy _War and Peace_

Aurora (noun)
1: in Roman mythology, the goddess of dawn.
2: the dawn or beginning of something.
3: bands or streamers of light that appear in the sky at
night in areas around the magnetic poles, caused by solar
particles striking atoms in the outer part of the earth's
atmosphere.

catechumen (noun)
One who is being instructed in a subject at an elementary level.
Synonym: neophyte

cheechako [chee-CHAH-koh], noun:
A tenderfoot; greenhorn; newcomer.

inchoate [in-KOH-it], adjective:
1. In an initial or early stage; just begun.
2. Imperfectly formed or formulated.

incipient [in-SIP-ee-uhnt], adjective:
Beginning to exist or appear.
Ex.: Sir George devoted much of his energies to worrying
about money and was preoccupied by thoughts of his
incipient pauperdom.
--Philip Ziegler,
_Osbert Sitwell_

incunabulum [in-kyoo-NAB-yuh-luhm], noun:
1. The earliest stages or first traces of anything.
2. Extant copies of books produced in the earliest
stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.

neophyte [NEE-uh-fyt], noun:
1. A new convert or proselyte.
2. A novice; a beginner in anything.

provenance [PROV-uh-nuhn(t)s], noun:
Origin; source.

tyro (noun)
A beginner in learning something.
Synonyms: beginner, initiate, novice


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