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. . . CONVICTION see: "PRINCIPLES" see "BELIEF" for other related links Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. --Edward Abbey (1927—1989) American author. _A Voice Crying in the Wilderness_ (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) [1989], ch. 3, "Government and Politics" Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. --Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880) American clergyman and author. In Joan F. Marques _Empower The Leader In You!_, p. 18 [2004]. If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. Convictions do not imply reasons. --Margaret Deland (1857—1945) American poet. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) American novelist. _Bernice Bobs Her Hair_ [1920] Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alex Hamilton (b. 1936) British writer and broadcaster. "Born Old" (radio broadcast), quoted in "Listener" [9 November 1978]. People in those old times had convictions; we moderns have only opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral. --Heinrich Heine (1797—1856) German poet. "The French Stage" [1837], ch. 9 It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. --Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899) American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic." _Individuality_ [1873] It is the absolutist, whether of left or right, that democracy has to fear. This is the man who thinks that he alone possesses wisdom, patriotism and virtue, who recognizes no obligation to accept community decisions with which he disagrees, who regards any means as justified by the end, who views the political process as a power struggle to impose conformity rather than a means to reconcile differences. Democracy is a method of reaching a consensus. Those who reject the consensus reject democracy. --Stanley Marcus (1905—2002) American retailer. [In 1964.] Give us clear vision, that we may know where to stand and what to stand for — because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. --Peter Marshall (1902—1949) Clergyman, author, and Senate chaplain. In a Senate prayer [1947]. - Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Human, All Too Human_ [1878], ch. 1, tr. Marion Faber [1984] A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an *attack* on one's convictions! --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Works_ [1920-1929], vol. XVI - Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. --Blaise Pascal (1623—1662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensées_ [1670] #894. Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. --Laurens van der Post (1906—1996) South African explorer and writer. _The Lost World of the Kalahari_ [1958], ch. 3 A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Portrait of Mr. W.H._ [1889], ch. 1 The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. --William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "The Second Coming" [1921]  ;void(0)) COOKING . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. --Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. _A Conversation With a Cat_ [1931] Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. --L.M. [Louis Malcolm] Boyd (1927—2007) American newspaper columnist. ^ To Serve And Eat Raw Oysters On The Half Shell — I like either spoon or fork, but I must have halved or quartered lemons with mine; I squeeze a few drops over the oyster, watch it cringe so I know it is alive and well, then in it goes. --Julia Child (1912—2004) American chef, television personality, and author. _From Julia Child's Kitchen_ ^ It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him. --Robertson Davies (1913—1995) Canadian author and playwright. _The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks_ [1985] I do dinner in three phases. Serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead. --Phyllis Diller (1917— ) American comedian. [When asked whether he liked children:] I do if they're properly cooked! --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor. _Fields for President_, ch. 7 [1940] I'm a man. Men cook outside. Women make the three-bean salad. That's the way it is and always has been, since the first settlers of Levittown. [...] That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't firmly understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing wienies and things on the front... --William E. Geist, "New York Times Magazine" [17 May 1987] Who hath not met with home-made bread, — A heavy compound of putty and lead, — And home-made wines that rack the head, And home-made liqueurs and waters? Home-made pop that will not foam, And home-made dishes that drive one from home. --Thomas Hood (1799—1845) English poet and humorist. "Miss Kilmansegg. Her Misery" ^ Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864) British poet, essayist, and critic. Landor's cook displeased his master one day by serving an indifferent meal. Landor in a passion threw him through an open window. The cook landed awkwardly in the flower bed below and broke a limb. Landor cried out, 'Good God, I forgot the violets!' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged. --Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41—103) Roman poet. _Epigrams_ [86-98], bk. VIII - "Ballad of Culinary Frustration" by Phyllis McGinley The world is full of wistful ones who hoard their souvenirs. The spinster keeps a faded rose through all the faded years, A travel folder lures the clerk while he dreams of a foreign sky, But I preserve the recipes I'll never dare to try. Vichyssoise, bouillabaisse, Terrapin mousse, Cucumber hollandaise, Staffordshire goose, Oh, the ginger, the clove, Oh, the sauces well-shaken! But here on my stove Lies the liver-and-bacon. On idle days, on rainy days, when all the world is shut out, I don the yellow clippings of the recipes I've cut out. And lovingly I memorize directions neatly pasted, For scones and soups and savories I've never even tasted. With eggs and with sirup, With herbs and with cream, In fancy I stir up An epicure's dream Of Netherland crumb cakes, Of sweetbreads-in-mustard; Of pasties and plumcakes And Devonshire custard. Oh, some folks dote on serious tomes, some read romances rippling, But a cookbook is my Odyssey, my Shakespeare, and my Kipling. For while I baste the leg of lamb or stir the tapioca, I'm visioning a a vol-au-vent, or a nougat à la Mocha — Some gossamer trifle That gourmets adore, As French as the Eiffel (And probably more), Like mushrooms with spices And artichoke hearts, And aspics and ices And shortbreads and tarts, With crusts that are thinner Than sea foam on top . . . My menu for dinner? We're having a chop. - Kissing don't last: cookery do! --George Meredith (1828—1909) English novelist and poet. _The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_ [1859] On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. --George Meredith (1828—1909) English novelist and poet. _How to be an Alien_ [1946] ^ Advertisement in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer. Full service hotel looking to expand its existing food operation with a quality Sioux chief. Salary range 25KO, commensurate with experience. --_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007] ^ - Stupidity in the kitchen; woman as cook; the dreadful thoughtlessness with which the nourishment of the family and the master of the house is provided for! Woman does not understand what food means—and she wants to be the cook! If woman were a thoughtful creature, she would, having been the cook for thousands of years, surely have had to discover the major facts of physiology, and likewise gained possession of the art of healing. It is through bad female cooks—through the complete absence of reason in the kitchen, that the evolution of man has been longest retarded and most harmed; even today, things are hardly any better. A speech for young ladies. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886], "Our Virtues," No. 234 - There were men, and there were women. He was clear on that. Sam Vimes was an uncomplicated man when it came to what the poets called "the lists of love."* ---footnote---- * He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination?but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips, if it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato. --Terry Pratchett (1948— ) English science fiction writer. _The Fifth Elephant_ Not everyone who carries a long knife is a cook. --Russian Proverb The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916) Scottish writer. _Reginald_ [1904] "Reginald on Besetting Sins" - ...And now we'll add a _soupçon_ of butter (throws in a stick), 2-1/2 cups of heavy cream, and a pinch of salt (tosses in a handful). There, that's better. ---Julia Child's generic recipe for _Les Arteries Clogged_ (apocryphal) - Cooking lesson #1: Don't fry bacon in the nude - "Miss Foggerty's Cake" author unknown As I sat by my window last evening, The letterman brought unto me A little gilt-edged invitation Saying, "Gilhooley, come over to tea." Sure I knew 'twas the Foggertys sent it, So I went for old friendship's sake, And the first thing they gave me to tackle Was a slice of Miss Foggerty's cake. Miss Martin wanted to taste it, But really there weren't no use, For they worked at it over an hour And couldn't get none of it loose. Till Foggerty went for a hatchet And Killey came in with a saw; The cake was enough, by the powers, To paralyse any man's jaw. In it were cloves, nutmegs and berries, Raisins, citron and cinnamon, too; There were sugar, pepper and cherries, And the crust of it nailed on with glue. Miss Foggerty, proud as a preacher, Kept winking and blinking away, Till she fell over Flanigan's brogans And spilt a whole brewing of tay. "O, Gilhooley," she cried, "you're not eating, Just take another piece for my sake." "No thanks, Miss Foggerty," says I, "But I'd like the recipe for that cake." McNulley was took with the colic, McFadden complained of his head, McDoodle fell down on the sofa, And swore that he wished he was dead. Miss Martin fell down in hysterics, And there she did wiggle and shake, While every man swore he was poisoned By eating Miss Foggerty's cake. end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CANADA | CANCER - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLEVER | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRUPTION - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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