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. . . BOYS see "AGE" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest. --Henry Ward Beecher (18131887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.] The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. I am fond of children (except boys). --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. Letter to Kathleen Eschwege [24 October 1879]. I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. --Thomas Campbell Clark (18991977) American lawyer, Attorney General, and Justice of the Supreme Court [19491967]. Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.) _Beyond the Mexique Bay_ The parent who could see his boy as he really is would shake his head and say: 'Willy is no good: I'll sell him.' --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. --A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (18821956) English writer for children. - TOPICAL [...] Anyone with a child in school knows the signs all too well. I am intrigued by the faith parents now invest the craze began about 1990 in psychologists who diagnose their children as suffering from a defect known as attention deficit disorder, or ADD. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether this "disorder" is an actual, physical, neurological condition or not, but neither does anybody else in this early stage of neuroscience. The symptoms of this supposed malady are always the same. The child or, rather, the boy forty-nine out of fifty cases are boys fidgets around in school, slides off his chair, doesn't pay attention, distracts his classmates during class, and performs poorly. In an earlier era he would have been pressured to pay attention, work harder, show some self-discipline. To parents caught up in the new intellectual climate of the 1990s, that approach seems cruel, because my little boy's problem is ... *he's wired wrong!* The poor little tyke *the fix has been in since birth!* Invariably the parents complain, "All he wants to do is sit in front of the television set and watch cartoons and play Sega Genesis." For how long? "How long? For hours at a time." Hours at a time; as even any young neuroscientist will tell you, that boy may have a problem, but it is not an attention deficit. --Tom Wolfe (1931 ) American journalist and novelist. _Hooking Up_ [2000] (Ellipsis & emphasis in original text.) ----- urchin (noun) ['κr-chin] A mischievous boy, a brat, especially if a bit soiled and bedraggled. ![]() . . see: "CONCEIT" see: "EGOTISM" see: "EXAGGERATION" see: "HUBRIS" see: "NOISE" see: "PRIDE" see: "SHOWOFFS" see: "SNOBS" see: "TALK TOO MUCH" see: "VANITY" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links ^ Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay) (1942 ) American boxer, Olympic gold medalist, and world heavyweight champion [19641971, 19741978, 19781980]. Born Cassius Clay, he converted to Islam. Irritated by Ali's perpetual boasts of ''I am the greatest,'' a colleague asked the boxer what he was like at golf. '' I'm the best,'' replied Ali. ''I just haven't played yet.'' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period [the 1880s] would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. Quoted in Bohun Lynch _Max Beerbohm in Perspective_, p. 26 [1922]. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. --Bernard Berenson (18651959) Lithuanian-born American art critic and historian Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips. --Bible "Proverbs" 27:2 NKJV Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. --Charles Buxton (18231871) English author. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.' --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_, Canto XIV [1823], Stanza 50 Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [19 November 1745]. I am that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half horse, half alligator, a little touched with the snapping-turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey-locust. I can whip my weight in wildcats, and, if any gentleman pleases, for a ten-dollar bill he can throw in a panther. I can hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to General Jackson. --David Crockett (17861836) American folk hero who died at the Alamo. In _David Crockett: His Life & Adventures_, by John S.C. Abbott [1874]. It ain't braggin' if you can do it. --Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (19101974) American professional baseball player. Quoted in "Washington Post" [3 February 1983]. The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ "Worship" [1860] There is no need to show your ability before everyone. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. 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 (18931964) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. _A Child of the Century_ [1954] It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. --Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (1938) American newspaper columnist. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Summing Up_ [1938] Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for someone to complain to. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of your- self. --Blaise Pascal (16231662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensιes_ [1670], no. 4 It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. Tell me what you brag about and I'll tell you what you lack. --Spanish proverb It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other. --Benedict de Spinoza (16321677) Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent of 17th century Rationalism. _Ethics_ [1677] pt. III I mustn't go singling out names. One must not be a name-dropper, as Her Majesty remarked to me yesterday. --Norman St. John Stevas (1929) British politician, author, and barrister. Leader of the House of Commons [1979-1981]. - ^ Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] [18351910] American humorist, writer, and lecturer. Mark Twain loved to brag about his hunting and fishing exploits. He once spent three weeks fishing in the Maine woods, regardless of the fact it was the state's closed season for fishing. Relaxing in the lounge car of the train on his return journey to New York, his catch iced down in the baggage car, he looked for someone to whom he could relate the story of his successful holiday. The stranger to whom he began to boast of his sizable catch appeared at first unresponsive, then positively grim. 'By the way, who are you, sir?' inquired Twain airily. 'I'm the state game warden,' was the unwelcome response. 'Who are you?' Twain nearly swallowed his cigar. 'Well, to be perfectly truthful, warden,' he said hastily, 'I'm the biggest damn liar in the whole United States.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Whoo-oop! I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass- mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw [sic].Look at me! I'm the man they call Sudden Death & General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar'l of whiskey for breakfast when I'm in robust health, & a bushel of rattlesnakes & a dead body when I'm ailing! I split the everlating rocks with my glance, and I squench [sic] the thunder when I speak! Whoo- oop! Stand back & give me room according to my strength! Blood's my natural drink, & the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen! and lay low and hold your breath, for I'm bout to turn myself loose! --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Life on the Mississippi_ [1883], Chapter 3 Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. - I am Xerxes, great king, king of kings, the king of all countries which speak all kinds of languages, the king of the entire big far-reaching earth. --Xerxes I (519 B.C.465 B.C.) Persian king [486465 B.C.]. Foundation tablet at Persepolis, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {ed.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. (Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis.) - A great man! Why, I doubt if there are six his equal in the whole of Boston. --said to William Gladstone by an unnamed Bostonian. ----- bloviate [BLOH-vee-ayt], intransitive verb: To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner. braggadocio [brag-uh-DOH-see-oh; -shee-oh; -shoh], noun: 1. A braggart. 2. Empty boasting. 3. A swaggering, cocky manner. fanfaronade (noun) [fζn-fζ-rκ-'neyd] Verbal fanfare: boasting or blustering boisterously. A person given to fanfaronades is a "fanfaron." gasconade (noun) Boastful or blustering talk. rodomontade (noun) Boastfulness: pretentious, self-important, or self-indulgent boasting, speech, or behavior end page ![]() . . see "THE MIND" for related links Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.) --Daniel Dennett (1942 ) American philosopher. _Consciousness Explained_, ch. 7 [1991] Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. _A Study in Scarlet_, ch. 2 [1887] [Professor Wagstaff (Groucho Marx):] Baravelli, you've got the brain of four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. --"Horse Feathers" [1932 movie] Screenplay by Will B. Johnstone, Bert Kalmar, S.J. Perelman, and Harry Ruby. There is a large number of women whose brains are closer in size to the gorillas than to the most developed male brains. This inferiority is so obvious that no one can contest it for a moment; only its degree is worth discussion. All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women . . . recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution, and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. --Gustave Le Bon (18411931) French social psychologist best known for his study of the psychological characteristics of crowds. _Revue d'Anthropologie_ [1879] I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. --A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (18821956) English writer for children. _Winnie-the-Pooh_ch. 4 [1926] Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. Brains are never a handicap to a girl if she hides them under a see-through blouse. --Bobby Vinton (1935 ) American singer. [In 1978.] I could wile away the hours Conferrin' with the flowers, Consultin' with the rain; And my head I'd be scratchin' While my thoughts were busy hatchin', If I only had a brain. --E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (18961981) American songwriter. "If I Only Had a Brain" 1939 song in the movie "The Wizard Of Oz." - The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3. feeding; and 4. mating. --Anonymous Psychology professor ![]() ![]() BRAVERY . . see: "BOLDNESS" see: "FEAR" see "CHARACTER" for other related links It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ "The Wolf and the Kid" Thank you, madam, the agony is abated. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. Aged four, having had hot coffee spilt over his legs. Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. --Samuel Daniel (15621619) English poet and dramatist. People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. --James A. Garfield (18311881) 20th President of the United States [1881]. We are the boys That fear no noise When the thundering cannons roar. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _She Stoops to Conquer_ [1773 play] True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] #216 Fortune favors the brave. --Latin proverb There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. --Samuel Pepys (16331703) English diarist and naval administrator. Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. --Wendell Phillips (18111884) American abolitionist and reformer. Discretion is the better part of valor. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _Henry IV_ [1597], pt. 1 There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window. It is said that he probably died of fright. --Yamamoto Tsunetomo (16591719) Japanese samurai. _Hagakure_ (Hidden in the Leaves)_ [1716] now known as __The Book of the Samurai_. Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! --Emiliano Zapata (18791919) Mexican revolutionary, champion of agrarianism, who fought in guerrilla actions during and after the Mexican Revolution [19111917]. In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_, p. 250 [2006]. ----- doughty DOW-tee, adjective: Marked by fearless resolution; valiant; brave. Ex.: "He was obsessed with the Arctic, his imagination stoked by epic accounts of the doughty pioneers who had led wooden ships into uncharted waters and northern mists." --Sara Wheeler, "In Cold Blood?" _New York Times_ [25 February 2001] intrepid in-TREP-id, adjective: Fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. temerity (noun) [tκ-'me-rκ-ti] Recklessness, foolhardy disregard for danger. The sense of today's word, the noun, is diametrically opposed to "timidity" despite the similarity sound. ![]() . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. --Adelle Davis (19041974) American nutritionist and author. What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick beefsteak, and a hound dog. Then you feed the beefsteak to the hound dog. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. The only way to eat well in England is to have breakfast three times a day. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. ![]() . . see: "LEAVING" see: "REJECTION" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links - [ . . . ] What'll I do When you Are far away And I am blue, What'll I do? What'll I do When I Am wond'ring who Is kissing you, What'll I do? What'll I do With just A photograph To tell my troubles to? When I'm alone With only Dreams of you That won't come true, What'll I do? [ . . . ] --Irving Berlin (18881989) American songwriter. "What'll I Do?" [1924 song] - Whereas you send unto me, willing me to confess a truth, and so to obtain your favor ... let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault where not so much as a thought ever proceeded. And to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty and in all true affection than you have ever found in Ann Bullen with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace's pleasure had been so pleased. --Anne Boleyn [also spelled Bullen] (1507?1536) Second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Queen Elizabeth I. (To Henry VIII 'from my doleful prison in the Tower, this sixth of May, 1536.') What's new? How is the world treating you? You haven't changed a bit, lovely as ever, I must admit What's new? How did that romance come through? We haven't met since then, gee, but it's nice to see you again What's new? Probably I'm boring you But seeing you is grand, and you were sweet to offer your hand I understand. Adieu! Pardon my asking what's new Of course you couldn't know, I haven't changed, I still love you so. --Johnny Burke (19081964) American lyricist. "What's New?" But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, met or never parted We have ne'er been brokenhearted. --Robert Burns (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "Ae Fond Kiss" Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Mourning Bride" [1697] Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. --Marguerite de Valois (15531615) Queen of France and Navarre. - "Ending," by Gavin Ewart (19161995) The love we thought would never stop now cools like a congealing chop. The kisses that were hot as curry are bird-pecks taken in a hurry. The hands that held electric charges now lie inert as four moored barges. The feet that ran to meet a date are running slow and running late. The eyes that shone and seldom shut are victims of a power cut. The parts that then transmitted joy are now reserved and cold and coy. Romance, expected once to stay, has left a note saying GONE AWAY. - If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? --Cynthia Heimel (1947- ) American playwright and author. Title of book [1991] - In the wee small hours of the morning, While the whole wide world is fast asleep, You lie awake and think about the girl And never even think of counting sheep. When your lonely heart has learned its lesson, You'd be hers if only she would call. In the wee small hours of the morning, That's the time you miss her most of all. --Bob Hilliard (19181971) American lyricist. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" [1955 song] (Music by David Mann.) - It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him. --Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950) American poet. "Time does not bring relief" 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.] - "After A While" [1971] by Veronica Shoffstall After a while, you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning And company doesn't mean security, And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts And presents aren't promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans. And futures have a way of falling down in midflight. After a while you learn That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure... That you really are strong. And you really do have worth. And you learn and learn... With every goodbye, you learn. - I met my old lover on the street today She seemed so glad to see me; I just smiled And we talked about the old times, and drank ourselves some beers Still crazy after all these years. --Paul Simon (1941 ) American singer and songwriter. "Still Crazy After All These Years" [song] Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love; the shores of existence are strewn with them. --Germaine de Staλl (17661817) French writer. - I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. "In Memoriam A. H. H." [1850] (Arthur Henry Hallam was the fiancι of Tennyson's sister Emily and died suddenly in September 1833.) & see: Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Way of the World", act 2, sc. I [1700] - Whatever happened to you, whatever happened to us We missed the proverbial boat, the plane and the train and the bus Push came to shove, we fell out of love, we tore each other apart... Love is grand but I can't understand why we broke each other's heart. --Loudon Wainwright III (1946 ) American songwriter. "Whatever Happened to Us" All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. --Mae West (18931980) American stage and film actress. - Max: Bob, listen to this. She dumped me. Bob. .... she said she never wants to see me again. Bob McGraw: Let me tell you something about women.......... They always say the opposite of what they mean. [Max reading letter] Max: Oh yeah? "If you come within a three block radius of my house I will have my new boyfriend, Vito, rip off your head and spit in your neck." Bob McGraw: You're right kid.......you've been dumped. --Up the Creek [1984] Tim Matheson .... Bob McGraw Dan Monahan .... Max end page | BABIES - BARTENDERS | BASEBALL | BASTARDS - BEATLES (THE) | BEAUTY | BED - BEGINNINGS | BEHAVIOR - BELIEF | BENNY (JACK) - BIBLE | BICYCLES - BIRDS | BIRTH - BLAIR (TONY) | BLAME - BLOGGING | BLONDES - BOOK BURNING | BOOKS | BOOMERS (THE) - BOXING | BOYS - BREAKING UP | BREASTS - BRITAIN | BROADWAY - BUBBLES (ECONOMIC) | BUGS BUNNY - BUREAUCRACY | BURMA SHAVE - BUSYBODIES | | 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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