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 . . . CHOCOLATE see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links ^ Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937), British journalist and playright known especially for _Peter Pan_. 'You'll be sick tomorrow, Jack, if you eat any more chocolates,' said Sylvia Llewelyn- Davies to her young son. 'I shall be sick tonight,' said the child calmly as he helped himself to yet another. Barrie, who overheard this exchange, was so delighted with it that he incorporated it in _Peter Pan_ and paid the young Llewelyn-Davies a copyright fee of a halfpenny a performance. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one's life ...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat — these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country. --Roald Dahl (1916—1990) British author of short-stories and books for children. Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage? --Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), _The Gay Divorcee_ [1934 film] Wagstaff (Groucho Marx): I'm fine, thanks, who are you? Baravelli (Chico Marx ): I'm fine too, but you can't come in unless you give the password. Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?... Wagstaff: I got it! Haddock! Baravelli: That's-a funny. I gotta haddock, too. Wagstaff: What do you take for a haddock? Baravelli: Well-a, sometimes I take-a aspirin, sometimes I take-a Calamel. Wagstaff: Say, I'd walk a mile for a Calamel. Baravelli : You mean chocolate calamel. I like that too, but you no guess it. Hey, what's-a matter, you no understand English? You can't come in here unless you say "swordfish." Now I'll give you one more guess. --dialogue, _Horse Feathers_ [1932 film] Say it with flowers Or say it with sweets Boxes of chocolates Or plush theatre seats Say it with diamonds Or say it with mink But whatever you do Don't say it in ink. --anon. - Energy equals milk chocolate square. Life is like a box of chocolates. It's full of nuts.   CHOICE(S) . . see: "ATTITUDE" see: "CHANGE" see: "DECISIONS" see: "OPPORTUNITY" see "ACTIONS" for other related links When you come to a fork in the road, take it. --Yogi Berra (1925— ) American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. --William Jennings Bryan (1860—1925) American Democratic and Populist politician who ran for the presidency three times without success. In a speech in Washington, D.C., [22 February 1899]. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda (1925—1998) Peruvian-born American author. If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. --Jean Cocteau (1889—1963) French poet. "Le Rappel à l'ordre" [1926] Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. --Jacques Delille (1738—1813) French poet. "Malheur et Pitié", canto I [1803] - Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. --Tryon Edwards (1809—1894) American theologian. & note: Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. --Mae West (1893—1980) American stage and film actress. "Klondike Annie" [1936 film] - [On the Model T Ford, 1909:] Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. --Henry Ford (1863—1947) American car manufacturer. _My Life and Work_ ch. 2 [1922] Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_, Pub. by U.S.C. Publishing Co. [1914] - "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (1874—1963) American poet. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergroth; Then I took the other one, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I keep the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, And that makes all the difference. - We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. --Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931) Lebanese poet. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong — but the man who refuses to take sides must *always* be wrong! Heaven save us from poltroons who fear to make a choice. --Robert A(nson) Heinlein (1907—1988) American science-fiction writer. _Double Star_ [1956] When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. Attributed in Noah benShea _Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers_, p. 22 [2001]. Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with, and, the laws you choose to obey. --Charles Millhuff American evangelist. Take me or leave me; or, as in the usual order of things, both. --Dorothy Parker (1893—1967) American critic and humorist. "New Yorker" [4 February 1928] Which ever you please. my little dear. You pays your money, and you take your choice. --The Ministerial Crisis" (cartoon) in _Punch_ [1846] One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. --Eleanor Roosevelt (1884—1962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Mark D. Bennett _A Field Guide to Good Decisions: Values in Action_, Intoduction p. xiii [2006]. - "Dolls," by Robert William Service (1874—1958) British poet. She said: “I am too old to play With dolls,” and put them all away, Into a box, one rainy day. I think she must have felt some pain, She looked so long into the rain, Then sighed: “I’ll bring you out again; “For I’ll have little children too, With sunny hair and eyes of blue And they will play and play with you. “And now good-bye, my pretty dears; There in the dark for years and years, Dream of your little mother’s tears.” Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Side by side in the coffer there. Time went by; one day she kneeled By a wooden Cross in Flanders Field, And wept for the One the earth concealed; And made a vow she would never wed, But always be true to the deathless dead, Until the span of her life be sped. ........ More years went on and they made her wise By sickness and pain and sacrifice, With greying tresses and tired eyes. And then one evening of weary rain, She opened the old oak box again, And her heart was clutched with an ancient pain For there in the quiet dark they lay, Just as they were when she put them away… O but it seemed like yesterday! Topsy and Tiny and Teddy Bear, Eglantine, Pierrot and Marie Claire, Ever so hopefully waiting there. But she looked at them through her blinding tears, And she said: “You’ve been patient, my pretty dears; You’ve waited and waited all these years. “I’ve broken a promise I made so true; But my heart, my darlings, is broken too: No little Mothers have I for you. “My hands are withered, my hair is grey; Yet just for a moment I’ll try to play With you as I did that long dead day… “Ah no, I cannot. I try in vain… I stare and I stare into the rain… I’ll put you back in your box again. “Bless you, darlings, perhaps one day, Some little Mother will find you and play, And once again you’ll be glad and gay. “But when in the friendly dark I lie, No one will ever love you as I… My little children… good-bye… good-bye.” - I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. --Stephen Sondheim (1930— ) American musical theater lyricist and composer. "Sunday In The Park With George" We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state. --Margaret Thatcher (1925— ) British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990]. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. --Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_, ch. 18 [1854] [The Frisco Doll (Mae West) speaking:] Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. --Mae West (1893—1980) American stage and film actress. "Klondike Annie" [1936 film] A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_, Ch. 1 [1891] ----- Hobson's choice [HOB-suhnz-CHOIS], noun: A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. (Thomas Hobson (ca. 1544-1631) kept a livery stable and required every customer to take either the horse nearest the stable door or none at all.) -- The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job. The foreman frowned and said, "I have to ask you this; "Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?" "Well, as a matter of fact, I have." she replied. "I've been divorced three times and I voted for Obama." -- ;void(0)) CHRISTIANITY . . see "RELIGION" for related links - After this notice is issued to instruct you villagers ... if there are any Christian converts, you ought to get rid of them quickly. The churches which belong to them should be unreservedly burned down. Everyone who intends to spare someone, or to disobey our order by concealing Christian converts, will be punished according to the regulation ... and he will be burned to death to prevent his impeding our program. --Boxer poster [1900] in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 687. Cohan & Major explain: The Boxers, a militant secret society, swore to defend the ruling Qing (Ch'ing) dynasty and to rid China of 'foreign devils'. They besieged the foreign legation compound in Beijing from May to Aug. 1900 but were crushed by an international expeditionary force. China was then compelled to make a huge financial indemnity, mortgaging its future for years to come. Boxer rebellion - Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism. --Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888—1938) Russian Communist leader and theoretician. In _Pravda_ [30 March 1934]. - There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. _Illustrated London News_ [11 August 1928] It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. _Heretics_ [1905] - He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity, and will end by loving himself better than all. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. - You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavor in a few words to gratify it. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That he governs by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequences, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Letter to Ezra Stiles [9 March 1790], in _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_ [1904], ch.12, edited by John Bigelow. - - Of course this is no longer the almost exclusively Christian nation it was in 1776. But does anyone doubt that it remains an overwhelmingly Christian nation nonetheless? We are solemnly warned that, nowadays, public expressions of Christianity are "controversial." Among whom? Look up "controversial" and you will find that "upsetting to the Los Angeles Times" is not the definition. Granted, ours is the Offended Age. All right, I'm offended. (Might as well get with the program.) As a practicing Jew I am offended when Jews all over the country pop up to denounce angrily some hapless truth-teller who says what is obvious, that this is a Christian country. (The angry denouncers are by no means only, not even mostly Jews—but the Jewish contingent is of special interest to me.) The Constitution confers on Jews and Christians equally the right to behave as if they believed in Judaism and Christianity respectively. Christianity is (at any rate) a variant of Judaism, formed on a Jewish armature; the work of Jews, propagated by Jews, focused on Jews. When Jesus is asked by a "certain lawyer" how one might deserve eternal life (Luke 10:25), the two Christian fundamentals that emerge are each verses from the Hebrew Bible—the Bible Jesus knew. By erecting and maintaining America on Christian principles, Christians have tendered Jews the deepest of compliments. Why not accept it in that spirit? --David Hillel Gelernter Professor of computer science at Yale injured opening a package from the "Unibomber." "Onward Christian Soldier", _The Weekly Standard_ [3 November 2003] - I would give nothing for the Christianity of a man whose very dog and cat were not the better for his religion. --Rowland Hill (1744—1833) English preacher. - I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch in the next 200 years will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity.... My regret will have been that I couldn't... behold. --Adolf Hitler (1889—1945) German dictator. [27th February, 1942, midday] in _Hitler's Secret Conversations 1941—1944_ [1953] published in Britain and USA under the title, _Hitler's Table Talk 1941—1944_. Neither of the denominations - Catholic or Protestant, they are both the same - has any future left ... That won't stop me tearing up Christianity in Germany, root and branch. One is either a Christian or a German. You can't be both. --Adolf Hitler (1889—1945) German dictator. - I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. --Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899) American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic." To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any others. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Letter To Dr. Benjamin Rush [21 April 1803]. No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good. --Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678—1751) English politician and philosopher. - Did you ever read the Koran? I recommend it. What the Koran teaches people is aggression; and what we [Christians] teach our people is peace. . . . Christianity aspires to peace and love. Islam is a religion that attacks. If you start teaching aggression to the whole community, you end up pandering to the negative elements in everyone. You know what that leads to: Such people will assault us. --Pope John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] (1920—2005) The first non-Italian Pope since the 16th century. In Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi _His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time_ [1996]. - I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle. --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. Address to the New Jersey State Senate [21 February 1861]. Alexander (the Great), Gaius Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force, Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him. --Napoleon I (1769—1821) Emperor of France [1804—1815]. I went to see the Turks' market, which they call a bazaar and which is where the poor Christians captured on Sicily, Malta and Gozo are sold to the highest bidders. In accordance with ancient oriental custom, slave dealers are allowed to parade their captives quite naked to show that they have no physical defects, and to have their eyes and teeth inspected as if they were horses. --Nicolas de Nicolay (1517—1583) French traveler. {Referring to the slave market in Tripoli, North Africa}, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 262. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950) English novelist. _The Road to Wigan Pier_, ch. 11 [1937] He who is truly a good man is more than half way to being a Christian, by whatever name he is called. --Bishop Robert South (1634—1716) English theologian and author. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. --Billy Sunday [William Ashley Sunday] (1862—1935) American evangelist. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country. --George Washington (1732—1799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783] and first president of the United States [1789—1797]. General Orders [9 July 1776], in William J. Jackman _History of the American Nation_ vol.2. A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday. --Thomas Russell Ybarra (1880—1971) Venezuelan-born American journalist and author. "The Christian" [1909] -- At the Superbowl, three rowdy young men, sat in their seats guzzling beer when three nuns dressed in their habits sat down in front of them. The first rowdy poked the one on his right and said in a carrying voice, "I'm going to move to South Dakota. I hear there are only about 100 Catholics living there." The second laughed and said, "No, I'm going to move to Texas. There are only 50 Catholics living in Texas." "Not me," the third said. "I'm moving to Montana. There are only 2 Catholics in Montana." The smallest of the three nuns turned around and smiled sweetly. "Why don't you just go straight to Hell? 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