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. . . CORRUPTION see: "DISHONESTY" see: "TREACHERY" see: "VICE" see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for other related links see: "DECEPTION" for other related links see: "POLITICS" for other related links I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. --Ashleigh Brilliant (b. 1933) British-born American writer and artist. Quoted in Geoff Tibballs _The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners_ [2004]. If you can't take money from people and then screw them, you have no business being a politician. --Willie L. Brown, Jr. (b. 1934) American politician. On "Politically Incorrect" [American TV show] He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ..." [3 April 1777]. - We are as liable to be corrupted by our books as by our companions. --Henry Fielding (17071754) English novelist and dramatist. "A Fragment of a Comment on Lord Bolingbroke's Essays" [1755] & see: Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. --Edwin Paxton Hood (18201885) English Congregational minister and writer. _Self-Formation_ [4th ed., 1858] - On 106 occasions, bribes were offered or discussed. On 105 of those occasions, the public official involved accepted the bribe. And on the other occasion he turned it down because he didn't think the amount was enough. --Rudy Giuliani (b. 1944) Mayor of New York City [19942001]. U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, reporting the results of a sting operation. "New York Times" [12 August 1987]. Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. --Robert H. Jackson (18921954) U.S. Supreme Court Justice [19411954] Chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Dissenting opinion in "United States v. Wunderlich" [1951]. Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [2nd ed., 1789] There's an honest graft, and I'm an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin': 'I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.' --George Washington Plunkitt (18421924) American politician. _Plunkitt of Tammany Hall_ "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft" [1905] It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. --Samuel Richardson (16891761) English novelist. _A Collection Of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments_, p. 138 [1755] The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics" _Outlook_ [12 May 1900] In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. --attributed to Marquis de Sade (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. Those who corrupt the public mind as just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician. Speech in Albuquerque, New Mexico [12 September 1952]. The more corrupt the state, the more laws. --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian. _The Annals_, III, xxvii [109] There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_, ch. I "Economy" [1854] [Of fellow parliamentarians:] All those men have their price. --Robert Walpole (16761745) English Whig statesman. In W. Coxe _Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole_ [1798]. - You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to. --Humbert Wolfe (18851940) Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. "Over the Fire" bk. 1, _The Uncelestial City_ [1930] -  . . see: "BEAUTY" see: "WOMEN" see: "THE BODY" for other related links Most women are not so young as they are painted. --Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. _The Yellow Book_ [1894] There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. --Marguerite Blessington (17891849) Irish novelist and poet. _Desultory Thoughts and Reflections_ [1839] ... Forevermore, when I hear the name Estee Lauder, I'll remember the time she told a wealthy customer that she could make her face creams last longer by storing them in the refrigerator. The labels came off in the cold, and the customer's maid served face cream at a formal dinner as mayonnaise. Oops. --Paul Carroll reviewing Todd G. Buchholz _New Ideas From Dead CEOs_ "The Wall Street Journal" [27 June 2007]. A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Biological Reflection" [1931] Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. --attributed to Yoko Ono (b. 1933) Japanese poet and songwriter. In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. --Charles Haskell Revson (19061975) American businessman. Quoted in Andrew P. Tobias _Fire and Ice_ [1976]. ----- infucation (noun) [in-fu-'key-shκn] Putting on makeup, adding artificial color to one's face. The verb is "infucate" and the adjective, "infucational." . . see: "ADVICE" see: "TEACHING" see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links see: "THE MIND" for other related links The best receipt best to work and best to take is the admonition of a friend. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 84 [1886]. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. --Claude-Adrien Helvιtius (17151771) French philosopher. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 9 [10th ed. 1884]. [Of his shipmates in WWII:] We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, you know, asking 'Are you all right are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it. --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) Consort of Queen Elizaberh II. BBC TV interview [August 1999] A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.) _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 61 [1862, 3rd edition]. Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Attributed in _Mental Recreation Or, Select Maxims_ [Longman & Rees, London, 1831]. ;void(0)) COUNTRY LIFE . . see: "FARMING" see: "NATURE" for other related links I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Way of the World", act IV [1700] Within the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild flowers blow, We lift our heads on high. --Ebenezer Elliott (17811849) English poet. "Forest Worship" ^^ Ralph Waldo Emerson was once asked to speak at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the famous battle of Concord (and the two hundredth anniversary of the town's founding). Emerson considered the request a great honor and resolved to produce a literary work based on the battle. Indeed, he decided to question the surviving veterans about their experiences. One day in the course of his investigation, Emerson met a barefooted farmer driving his oxen. Curious, the poet asked the man whether everyone in the area went without shoes and stockings. "Wal, some on 'em does," the farmer replied, "and the rest on 'em minds their own business." --http://anecdotage.com/ ^^ [Headline about rural filmgoers' rejection of motion pictures about rural life:] Sticks Nix Hick Pix. --Abel Green (19001973) American journalist. "Variety" [17 July 1935] There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there is, they will not let you have it. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. _The Round Table_ [1817] Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Odyssey_, c. 800BC, bk. XIV, l. 410 - Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. --A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (18591936) English classical scholar and poet. "A Shropshire Lad" no, 40, l. 5 [1896] - I dare say you need not be told how sensual vice abounds in rural districts. Here it is flagrant beyond anything I ever could have looked for: and here while every justice of the peace is filled with disgust and every clergyman with (almost) despair at the drunkenness, quarrelling and extreme licentiousness with women here is dear good old [William] Wordsworth for ever talking of rural innocence and deprecating any intercourse with towns, lest the purity of his neighbours should be corrupted. --Harriet Martineau writing from the Lake District in 1846 to Elizabeth Barrett. In _History in Quotations_ M.J. Cohan and John Major [2004]. So *that's* what hay looks like. --Queen Mary (18671953) Queen Consort of George V. (Said at Badminton House, where she was evacuated during WWII.) In James Pope-Hennessy _Life of Queen Mary_ [1959]. Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear, frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life. --Annie Oakley [Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee] (18601926) American sharpshooter. Quoted in Shirl Kasper _Annie Oakley_, p.154 [2000]. If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. --Giovanni Ruffini (18071881) Italian poet and librettist. _Doctor Antonio_ [1855] - I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. --Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist, in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review." Letter to Miss G. Harcourt [1838]. My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. --Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist. Lady Holland (Smith's daughter) _Memoir_, vol. I, ch. 9 [1855] - Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families, where men live plentifully and eat and drink freely, that perfect health, that athletic soundness and vigor of constitution which is commonly seen in the country, in poor houses and cottages, where nature is their cook, and necessity their caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air, and that such a one as never sends them to the apothecary. --Bishop Robert South (16341716) English theologian and author. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ [1829]. Cities did nothing for me. It was the hinterlands that made me. --Paul Theroux (b. 1941) American novelist and travel writer. "Fresh Air Fiend" With four walk-in closets to walk in, Three bushes, two shrubs, and one tree, The suburbs are good for children, But no place for grown-ups to be. --Judith Viorst (b. 1931) American author. _It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life_ [1968] Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ [1891] - A man and his wife were considering traveling to Alaska for a trip the husband had long dreamed of taking. He kept talking about how great it would be to stay in a log cabin without electricity, to hunt moose and drive a dog team instead of a car. "If we decided to live there permanently, away from civilization, what would you miss the most?" he asked his wife. She replied, "You." - ----- agrestic [uh-GRES-tik], adjective: Pertaining to fields or the country; rural; rustic. bucolic [byoo-KOL-ik], adjective/noun: 1. Relating to or typical of the countryside or its people; rustic. 2. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral. copse [KOPS], noun: A thicket or grove of small trees. hinterland [HIN-tur-land], noun: 1. A region situated inland from a coast. 2. A region remote from urban areas; backcountry. idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. morass (noun) A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. Synonyms: quagmire, mire, quag rusticate [RUHS-tih-kayt], intransitive verb: To go into or reside in the country; to pursue a rustic life. transitive verb: To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily. verdure (noun) ['vur-jκr or 'vur-dyκr] Lush growth and beauty of growing vegetation; greenery. ;void(0)) COURAGE . . see: "BOLDNESS" see: "BRAVERY" see: "CHALLENGE" see: "CONFIDENCE" see: "COWARDS" see: "DANGER" see: "RISK" see: "STRENGTH" 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" Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. --attributed to Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence. --Hosea Ballou (17711852) American theologian. Quoted in H. D. M. Spence, Joseph Exell, & Charles Neil (eds.) _Thirty Thousand Thoughts_, p. 10 [1889]. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --attributed to Erma Bombeck (19271996) American humorist. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. For cowards the road to destruction should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an encumbrance when once the sword is drawn. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. Quoted in James Comper Gray _The Biblical Museum: Old Testament_, vol. 3 [1878]. The intent and not the deed, Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly, Does greatly. --John Brown (17151766) English clergyman and author. _Barbarossa_ V, ii [1735] But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live. --Sir Thomas Browne (16051682) English writer and physician. _Religio Medici_, pt. I, xliv [1643] 'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" [1865] He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 85 [1886]. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. --attributed to Coco Chanel (18831971) French fashion designer. One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Quoted in Sidney Greenberg _A Treasury of the Art of Living_ [1963]. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. --Paulo Coelho (b. 1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist. _The Devil and Miss Prym_ [2000] Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CLXV [1820] To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_ [1891]. Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. --Howard Cosell (19181995) American sports journalist and author. _Like It Is_ [1974] Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. --attributed to Walt Disney (19011966) American film producer, cartoon artist and the creator of Disneyland. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Amphitryon_ , III, i [1690] - A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ [1860], "Culture" Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. --attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. - - One story, though, stood out from all the others, even though it involved a player who had absolutely no chance to make it to the [U.S.] Open. The player was Jeff Julian, a forty-year-old who had spent most of his pro career a step away from the bright lights of the PGA Tour. Twice, Julian had made it through Q-School and had gotten on tour, in 1996 and 2001. During that second stint, he began to feel tired, began to get the shakes on the golf course, something that had never happened to him before. He underwent a battery of tests and, in the fall, was given the worst possible news. He had ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is, to put it bluntly, a death sentence. Most people don't live two years after being diagnosed. Julian understood all that. He also knew that he wanted to do what he loved doing most for as long as he possibly could: play golf. He told PGA tour officials in the fall that he was concerned about playing in Pro-Ams because he was starting to slur his words and he didn't want people to get the wrong idea about why. But he kept playing. He lost his playing privileges at the end of the year but was given a number of sponsor exemptions early in 2002. He hadn't made a cut but hadn't played poorly, either. A lot of times his problem was that he tired badly near the end of rounds. He just didn't have the stamina to walk eighteen holes a lot of days, especially if it was hot. He had played in a local in St. Louis and had finished tied for second, shooting 70. There was absolutely no way he was going to be able to walk thirty-six holes in a sectional, especially in June when the weather was probably going to be hot. There were suggestions that he should ask the USGA for a cart. Given the Casey Martin decision a year earlier in which the Supreme Court had ruled that a disabled golfer had the right to play in a golf cart, Julian probably would have been given a cart if he had asked. But he didn't ask. He was a believer that walking is a part of competing in golf, regardless of any court ruling. He would show up at the sectionals and walk as far as he could and play as long as he could. He made it through eighteen holes of his sectional on a blindingly hot day in St. Louis before he was forced to quit. Prior to the sectional, David Fay had thought for a fleeting moment about offering him an exemption into the Open but had quickly put it aside. The precedent would be a bad one, and, he suspected, it would call attention to Julian in a way that would have made him uncomfortable. In all, though, it wouldn't have been a bad thing to do. The USGA has the flexibility to increase the size of the field by up to three golfers if it wants to it had done so in 1994 when Arnold Palmer, Ben Crenshaw, and Seve Ballesteros had all been given exemptionsso giving Julian a spot would not have taken anyone else's spot away. And, unlike most players, Julian almost certainly would not get another crack at the Open in a year. Julian didn't make it to Bethpage. But his performance in the local and in the sectional were absolute proof that a player doesn't have to win the Open to be a hero. In this case, he didn't even have to make it to the first tee. --John Feinstein _Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black_ [2003] (Jeff Julian died in 2004.) - How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [January 1743] Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. _Young India_ [17 June 1926] A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. --James A. Garfield (18311881) 20th President of the United States [1881]. In William Makepeace Thayer _From Log-Cabin to the White House: Life of James A. Garfield_ [1881]. Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in anothers trouble, Courage in our own. --Adam Lindsay Gordon (18331870) Australian poet, jockey and politician. "Ye Wearie Wayfarer" Fyttes VIII Q: 'Exactly what do you mean by 'guts'?' A: 'I mean, grace under pressure.' --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. Interview with Dorothy Parker in _New Yorker_ [30 November 1929]. Who hath not courage to revenge, will never find generosity to forgive. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. _Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1789] The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. Attributed in J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 527 [1881]. The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. --A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (18591936) English classical scholar and poet. "Last Poems" no. 9 [1922] - Courage without conscience is a wild beast. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator know as "The Great Agnostic." [1882 Decoration Day Address] The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator know as "The Great Agnostic." _Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Famous Speeches Complete_ [1906] - One man with courage makes a majority. --Andrew Jackson [Old Hickory] (17671845) American military hero and 7th president of the United States [1829-37]. Attributed in "Washington Post" [7 February 1964]. - In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Lives of the Poets_ [17791781] Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Remark, Spring 1775 in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - - It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. "Day of Affirmation" speech, University of Capetown, South Africa [6 June 1966]. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. "Day of Affirmation" speech, University of Capetown, South Africa [6 June 1966]. - - The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] - It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (19062001) American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh. Quoted in "Time" (mag.) [1977]. Moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. --Douglas MacArthur (18801964) American general. On one of the "many things, some of them not within the covers of books written by any man," that he was taught at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Public statement on his 84th birthday [26 January 1964]. I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. --Robert Mueller (fl. 1957) American musician. Quoted in "Look" (mag.) [5 March 1957]. It is better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep. --Benito Mussolini (18831945) Italian Fascist dictator. In Denis Mack-Smith _Mussolini's Roman Empire_ [1967]. 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 (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _Works_, vol. XVI [1920-1929] [Of the Marines at the battle of Iwo Jima:] Uncommon valor was a common virtue. --Chester William Nimitz (18851966) Commander in Chief of Pacific forces during World War II. CINCPOA Communiquι no. 300 [16 March 1945]. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. --George S. Patton, Jr. (18851945) American general. Quoted in James Carlton (ed.) _The Military Quotation Book_ [1990]. To do an evil action is base; to do a good action, without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. Attributed in James Comper Gray _The Biblical Museum_, p. 64 [1871]. [When surrounded by the enemy during the Korean War:] They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. --Lester Burwell "Chesty" Puller (18981971) The most decorated Marine in American history. Attributed in William A. Cohen _Wisdom of the Generals: From Adversity to Success_ [2001]. - He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again. --James Ray of Whitehaven _A Compleat History of the Rebellion_ [1752], as quoted in "Notes and Queries" Third Series Volume Seventh [January June 1865] & note: The man who runs may fight again. --Menander (343?291 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Monostikoi_ - I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. A statement to the American people revealing that he had Alzheimer's disease [5 January 1995]. - Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 93 [1891]. A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 102 [1908 ed.]. - You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Essay in Edward P. Morgan (ed.) _This I Believe ..._ [1952]. - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Speech in Chicago, Illinois [10 April 1899]. [William McKinley] has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. He was irked by the President's reluctance to declare war on Spain in 1898. In Bill Adler, comp., _Presidential Wit: From Washington to Johnson_, p. 90 [1966]. - It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. --Judith Rossner (19352005) American novelist. _Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid_ [1969] It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --J.K. Rowling (b. 1966) Scottish novelist. _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ [1997] Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish_ [1943] Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (18701916) Scottish writer. _The Achievement of the Cat_ [1924] Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our bodies must tell the tale. --Robert Falcon Scott (18681912) English polar explorer. _Message to the Public_ in "The Times" [11 February 1913]. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Attributed in H.D.M. Spence (ed.) _Thirty Thousand Thoughts_ [1889]. I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. --William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891) American Union general. _Memoirs_ [1875] That battle, resounding down history as the first Battle of the Marne, was won by the Allies, who in four hot, dusty September days turned almost certain and final defeat into victory. . . . The defeated Kluck, who had had a poor opinion of the enemy forces he had pushed back so easily the first weeks, understood this afterward. 'The reason that transcends all others' for what happened on the Marne, he said in 1918, 'was the extraordinary . . . aptitude of the French soldier to recover quickly. That men will let themselves be killed where they stand that is well-known and counted on in every plan of battle. But that men who have retreated for ten days, sleeping on the ground and half dead with fatigue, should be able to take up their rifles and attack when the bugle sounds, is a thing upon which we never counted. It was a possibility not studied in our war academy.' --William L. Shirer (19041993) American journalist, historian, and novelist. _The Collapse of the Third Republic_ [1969] Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, not less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. --Samuel Smiles (18121904) Scottish author. _Character_, ch. V "Courage" [1871] True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. --Tobias George Smollett (17211771) English satirical novelist. Attributed in Adam Woolιver (comp.) _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_, p. 79 [4th ed. 1881]. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals but they have no determining influence on public life. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn (19182008) Russian novelist. "The Exhausted West," commencement address at Harvard University [8 June 1978]. He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ "Second Conversation" [1738] Courage is not limited to the battlefield. ... The real tests of courage are much deeper and quieter. They are the inner tests ... like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. --Charles R. Swindoll (b. 1934) American evanegelical Christian pastor. _Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life_ [1983] Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. --Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering_, p. 205 [1919] All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. --Sir William Temple (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_, p. 37 [1829]. Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. The secret of freedom is courage. --Thucydides (c.460c.400 B.C.) Greek historian of Athens. _History of the Peloponnesian War_, bk. 2, ch. 4 - FELLOW CITIZENS, I am besieged by a thousand or more Mexicans, under Santa Anna ... The enemy have demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. *I shall never surrender nor retreat*... VICTORY OR DEATH. --Lieutenant Colonel William Barrett Travis (18091836) Hero of the Texas Revolution. (Dispatch of 24 February 1836.) & see: Remember the Alamo! --Battle-cry of the Texan leader Sam Houston at San Jacinto, 21 April 1836, when the Texans defeated and slaughtered Mexican troops as comprehensively as the Mexicans had annihilated the defenders of the Alamo the previous month. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 615 [2004]. - It's so wrong to think that spectacular courage is the best bravery. The noblest bravery is battling against these dreadful daily assaults, often very minor, on one's spirit. --Joanna Trollope (b. 1943) English novelist. _The Rector's Wife_ p. 171 [1991] Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] ch. 12 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" Unlike virtue, courage is not its own reward. It has results. --Fay Weldon (b. 1931) British novelist. _The Heart of the Country_ [1987] Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything does dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years, But the smile that is worth the praise of earth Is the smile that comes through tears. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. "Worth While" 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]. ----- bravado [bruh-VAH-doh], noun; plural bravados or bravadoes bruh-VAH-dohz: A real or pretended show of courage or boldness. doughty (adj.) ['dζw-di or 'daw-ti ] Stouthearted, (unexpectedly) valiant, courageous, often said of physically small or unassuming people. Not to be confused with dowdy "unattractively dull, old-fashioned," which is pronounced almost identical with "doughty" in most English dialects. intrepid [in-TREP-id], adjective: Fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. mettle [MET-l], noun: Courage and fortitude. moxie (noun) ['mahk-see or -si] New England chutzpah, gumption, pluck, spirit, courage. 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