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. . . CALUMNY see "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for related links - When we find ourselves in company with quarrelsome, eccentric individuals, people who openly and unblushingly say the most shocking things, difficult to put up with, we should take refuge in silence, and the wisest plan is not to reply to people whose behavior is so preposterous. Those who insult us and treat us contumeliously are anxious for a spiteful and sarcastic reply: the silence we then affect disheartens them, and they cannot avoid showing their vexation; they do all they can to provoke us and to elicit a reply, but the best way to baffle them is to say nothing, refuse to argue with them, and to leave them to chew the cud of their hasty anger. --St. Ambrose (c. 339397) French-born bishop of Milan. _De officiis ministrorum_, ch. 5, quoted in Charles Kenny _Half-Hours with the Saints and Servants of God_ [1882] - [When asked by Dale Carnegie if he was troubled by the attacks of his enemies:] No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him. --Bernard Baruch (18701965) American financier. Quoted in Dale Carnegie _How to Stop Worrying and Start Living_ [1948]. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. --_Bible_ "Act of the Apostles" 9:5 The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. 'They are sparks,' said he, 'which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.' --In Rev. Donald Macleod _The New Cyclopaedia of Illustrative Anecdote, Religious and Moral_, p. 769 [1872] (Herman Boerhaave (16681738) Dutch physician, botanist, and and professor of medicine.) Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, which it were best not to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it will return to the charge more furious than ever. --Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. Quoted in James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 34 [1893]. - Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 64 [15th ed. 1894]. The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] - Calumny is only the noise of madmen. --Diogenes (404323 B.C.) Greek Cynic philosopher. Quoted in Epictetus _The Discourses_ bk. I, ch. 24. [Of attacts in Parliament:] Never complain and never explain. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. Quoted in John Morley _Life of William Ewart Gladstone_ [1903]. Act uprightly, and despise Calumny; Dirt may stick to a Mud Wall, but not to polish'd Marble. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1757] - Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader, who has once gratified his appetite with calumny, makes ever after, the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputation. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Traveller; Or, A Prospect of Society_ [1764] Mrw. Hardcastle: 'See me, how calm I am.' Miss Neville: 'Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.' --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _She Stoops to Conquer_, act 3 [1773 play] - Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny, before he has investigated the truth, is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. --Herodotus (484c.425 BC) Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world. Quoted in Craufurd Tait Ramage _Beautiful Thoughts from Greek Authors_, p 147 [1864] Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the man who makes wrong statements about others is himself to be pitied, not the man he vilifies. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania". _The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923] - Calumnies are best answered with silence. --Ben Jonson (c.15731637) English dramatist and poet. _The Alchemist_, act 2, sc. I [1610] Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny. --Franηoise d'Aubignι, marquise de Maintenon (16351719) Second wife and untitled queen of King Louis XIV of France. Quoted in Andrew Steinmetz _Gems of Genius; or, Words of the Wise_, p. 172 [1838]. He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child. --Menander (343?291 B.C.) Greek dramatist. Quoted in James Elmes _Classic Quotations: A Thought-Book ..._, p. 32 [1863] The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _An Apology for Smectymnuus_ [1642] I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. --Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (16891755) French philosopher, jurist, and satirist. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 64 [15th ed. 1894]. The men who convey, and those who listen to calumnies, should, if I could have my way, all hang, the tale-bearers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254184 BC) Roman comic dramatist _Pseudolus_, act I, sc. 5 Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601], act 3, sc. I, l. 143 Neglected, calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian. _The Annals_ [109] Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have its place. --Talmud (A.D.1st6th cent.) Rabbinical writings. To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Letter to Gov. William Livingston [7 December 1779].  ;void(0)) CAMP . . see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh Here I am at Camp Granada Camp is very entertaining And they say we'll have some fun If it stops raining I went hiking with Joe Spivey He developed poison ivy You remember Leonard Skinner He got ptomaine poisoning Last night after dinner All the counselors hate the waiters And the lake has alligators And the head coach wants no sissies So he reads to us From something called Ulysses Now I don't want this should scare ya But my bunk mate has malaria You remember Jeffrey Hardy They're about to organize A searching party Take me home oh Muddah, Fadduh Take me home I hate Granada Don't leave me Out here in the forest Where I might get eaten by a bear Take me home I promise I will not make noise Or mess the house with other boys Oh please don't make me stay I've been here one whole day Dearest Fadduh, darling Muddah How's my precious little Bruddah? Let me come home if you miss me I would even let Aunt Bertha Hug and kiss me Wait a minute it stopped hailing Guys are swimming guys are sailing Playing baseball gee that's better Muddah, Fadduh Kindly disregard this letter! --Allan Sherman (19321973) American song parodist and satirist. "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" [song] ----- bivouac [BIV-wak, BIV-uh-wak], noun: An encampment for the night, usually under little or no shelter. . . see "POLITICS" for related links Politics is gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. --Oscar Ameringer (18701943) German-born American socialist. Quoted in Ferdinand Lundberg _Scoundrels All_ [1968]. - If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire-"Here is $1,000." What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, "Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000." What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe. --Janice Fine, "Dollars and Sense" [magazine] [July/August 2000], p.21 - He's donated some $18 million to organizations working to defeat President Bush. Now, billionaire George Soros is taking his campaign and money on the road. The Hungarian-born activist will spend between $2 million and $3 million in the next month visiting a dozen cities, sending at least 2 million informational pamphlets to voters and placing ads in national and local newspapers. --Carl Limbacher, "Soros Steps Up Efforts to Oust Bush" - We've heard a great deal about Republican "fat cats," and how the Republicans are the party of big contributions. I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a "fat cat" and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a "public- spirited philanthropist." --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. - Sen. Joseph Lieberman: Do you think you got your money's worth for the $300,000 you gave in campaign contributions to the Democratic Party? Tamraz: I think next time I'll give $600,000. --Roger Tamraz, testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee [18 September 1997]. -  CAMPAIGN FINANCING . . see "POLITICS" for related links - Let's deal now with some facts about the 2002 election cycle brought to light by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Prepare to be shocked: Republicans raised more than Democrats from individuals who contributed small and medium amounts of money; It was the Democrats who outpaced the Republicans among the "fatcats"; Among donors who gave more than $200, but less than $1,000, Republicans raised $68 million to the Democrats' $44 million; Among those who gave $1,000 or more, Republicans raised $317 million to the Democrats' $307 million; Donors of $10,000 or more gave $140 million to the Democrats and only $111 million to the Republicans. Among those who gave $100,000 or more, Democrats raised $72 million to the Republicans' $34 million. Among those who gave $1 million or more, the Democratic Party raised $36 million to $3 million for the Republicans. Fatcats? It sounds like the Democrats have practically a monopoly on them. --Joseph Farah Founder and editor of WorldNetDaily.com. "Democrats are liars, Republicans are stupid" - ^ John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American politician, 35th President of the United States [19611963]. Addressing a group of donors who had paid a great deal to meet the Democratic presidential nominee, Kennedy said, 'I am deeply touched. Not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner; nevertheless, it's a sentimental occasion.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ end page . . CAMPAIGNS see "POLITICS" for related links I have what it takes to take what you've got. --James H. Boren (1925 ) American bureaucrat, professional speaker, and humorist. Slogan while running for president in 1984. ^ At a press conference during his campaign for mayor of New York City: Do you have any chance of winning? [William F.] Buckley: No. Q: Do you really want to be mayor? Buckley: I've never considered it. Q: Well, conservatively speaking, how many votes do you expect to get? Buckley: One. Q: And who would cast that vote? Buckley: My secretary. --1965. (When later asked what he would do if elected, he replied, "Demand a recount.") In _Wall Street Journal_ [28 February 2008] ^ When [Sargent Shriver] was the Democratic party's 1972 vice presidential candidate, [he] wandered into a bar in New Hampshire and said: 'Beer for the boys, and I'll have a Courvoisier.' --Chris Cillizza "Me? I vote for the Cheez Whiz," in _The Washington Post_ [3 September 2006]. The other side can have a monopoly on all the dirt in this campaign. --Grover Cleveland (18371908) 22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [18931897] President of the U.S.. Comment made while destroying documents gathered to smear James G. Blaine, during the 1884 Presidential campaign, quoted in Allan Nevins _Grover Cleveland_ [1932]. When the day of election approaches, visit your constituents far and wide. Treat liberally, and drink freely, in order to rise in their estimation, though you fall in your own. True, you may be called a drunken dog by some of the clean-shirt and silk- stocking gentry, but the real roughnecks will style you a jovial fellow. Their votes are certain, and frequently count double. --David Crockett (17861836) American folk hero who died at the Alamo. _Exploits and Adventures in Texas_ [1836] pp.5659 We campaign in poetry, but when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose. --Mario Cuomo (1932 ) American lawyer and politician. Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. [15 February 1985]. - I was told that people did not like negative ads. So I didn't run any. I lost. --Bob Dole (1923 ) Republican senator and majority leader and unsuccesful candidate in the 1996 presidential election. [Referring to the 1988 primaries.] [Of the Clinton administration:] A corps of the elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned. --Bob Dole (1923 ) Republican senator and majority leader and unsuccesful candidate in the 1996 presidential election. Acceptance speech for Republican presidential nomination, San Diego, California [15 August 1996]. - There are two major kinds of promises in politics: the promises made by candidates to the voters and the promises made by the candidates to persons and groups able to deliver the vote. Promises falling into the latter category are loosely called 'patronage,' and promises falling into the former category are most frequently called 'lies.' --Dick Gregory (1932 ) American comedian and social activist. _Dick Gregory's Political Primer_ [1972] The methods now being used to merchandise the political candidate as though he were a deoderant positively guarantee the electorate against ever hearing the truth about anything. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. _Brave New World Revisited_ [1958] I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy. It says, 'Dear Jack, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.' --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. After-dinner speech before the Gridiron Club, Washington [15 March 1958]. Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. As quoted in Sonia Orwell's and Ian Angus' _The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_ [1968]. If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up in the American flag and talk about the Constitution. --Matthew Stanley Quay (18331904) American politician. Political boss of Pennsylvania [1886 remark]. I will not make age an issue. . . . I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. Said at age 73 regarding his 56-year-old opponent, Walter F. Mondale, during a televised presidential campaign debate [21 October 1984]. - I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Speech to the Democratic Convention in Chicago [2 July 1932] accepting the presidential nomination. And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Campaign speech in Boston [30 October 1940]. Happy days are here again! The skies above are clear again! Let us sing a song of cheer again! Happy days are here again! --Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign song [1932], written in 1929. - My hat is in the ring. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Declaring his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Cleveland, Ohio [21 February 1912]. Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of five and live accordingly. --Helen Thomas (1920 ) American new-service reporter and dean of the White House press corps. _San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle_ [January 29, 1995] "Uncovering the White House" I am going to make a common-sense, intellectually honest campaign. It will be a novelty and it will win. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Diary [16 July 1948]. All dressed up, with nowhere to go. --William Allen White (18681944) American journalist know as the 'Sage of Emporia.' Referring to the Progressive Party in 1916, after Theodore Roosevelt retired from presidential competition. In his first campaign, in 1976, Moynihan's opponent was the incumbent, James Buckley, who playfully referred to "Professor Moynihan" from Harvard. Moynihan exclaimed with mock indignation, "The mudslinging has begun!" --George F. Will (1941 ) American columnist. - Tippecanoe and Tyler too. --Whig (Harrison-Tyler) campaign [1840] Fifty-four forty or fight. --Democratic (Polk) campaign [1844] We Polked You in '44, We Shall Pierce You in '52. --Democratic (Pierce) campaign [1852] Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental liar from the State of Maine. --Political taunt used by the Democrats during the presidential campaign of 1884. (Blaine supporters responded with their own taunt: 'Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.' Candidate Cleveland acknowledged that he had fathered an illegitimate child.) {GBAQ} McKinley drinks soda water, Bryan drinks rum, McKinley is a gentleman, Bryan is a bum. --Republican (McKinley) campaign [1900] A Chicken in Every Pot. --Republican (Hoover) campaign [1928] I Like Ike. --Republican (Eisenhower) campaign [1952] We Need Adlai Badly. --Democratic (Stevenson) campaign [1956] We're Madly For Adlai. --Democratic (Stevenson) campaign [1956] Would you buy a used car from this man? --campaign slogan directed against Richard Nixon [1968] ----- psephology (noun) [se-'fah-lκ-gee] The study of political campaigns and elections, including voting trends that predict election results. ;void(0)) CANADA . . see "PLACES" for related links A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. --Pierre Berton (19202004) Canadian writer. In "The Canadian" [22 December 1973]. Canada is a live country live, but not, like the States, kicking. --Rupert Brooke (18871915) English poet. The girls in Canadian lap dancing bars are allowed to remove all their clothes and touch the customers, but while this is undoubtedly a Good Thing, we should remember that Canada is home to 87% of all the world's mosquitoes. --Jeremy Clarkson (1960 ) British journalist and broadcaster. In "Sunday Times" [18 July 1999]. - Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture. --John Robert Colombo (1936 ) Canadian writer. "Oh Canada" [1965] - Sometimes when I think of the great world family of English-speaking peoples, I think of Canada as the Daughter who Stayed at Home. I mean that in 1776, Columbia, a self-willed girl with a strong sense of her own independence, left her mother's house, after some high-pitched family rows, and set up a household of her own. At that time Canada elected to stay with Mother.... So what happened? Just what anybody with a knowledge of family behavior might expect to happen. Columbia, the naughty daughter, prospered mightily & Mother (who always had a sharp eye for success) became very fond of her. And the Good Daughter Who Stayed at Home became, in the course of time, rather a bore. --Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. "The Canada of Myth & Reality" - Canada is one of many countries that seem permanently convinced that it could run America better than the Americans do. --John Gibson, _Hating America: The New World Sport_ [2004] & see They don't get it. They insulted America decade in, decade out, and no one cared because no one noticed. After 9/11, Americans started noticing. --Mark Steyn (1959 ) Canadian journalist. Quoted in John Gibson, _Hating America: The New World Sport_ [2004] - People's eyes glaze over when you say, "Canada." Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something. --Sondra Gotlieb, wife of the former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. [in 1982]. The nineteenth century was the century of the United States. I think that we can claim that it is Canada that shall fill the twentieth century. --Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919) Canadian prime minister [18961911]. - In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. --Irving Layton (19122006) Romanian-born Canadian poet. _The Whole Bloody Bird_ "Obs II" [1969] & see: Trudeau had the office bullet proofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him. --attributed to Brian Mulroney (1939 ) Canadian prime minister [19841993]. - Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland. --Margaret Mahy (1936 ) New Zealand writer for children. _The Changeover_ [1984] Canadians don't deal with the same kind of health care problems and traumas we face. They have a health care system based on treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _Quotations for our Time_ [1977] Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. --Richard Staines Canada is like the loft apartment above a really good party. --Robin Williams (1952 ) American actor. When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. 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