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. . . DICTIONARY see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links Adams: But Sir, how can you do this in three years? Samuel Johnson: Sir, I have no doubt I can do it in three years. Adams: But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their dictionary. Johnson: Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman. --James Boswell (1740—1795) Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author. _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. --Eddie Cantor (1882—1964) American comedian, actor, singer, and songwriter. _The Way I See It_ [1959] As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. --Albert Jay Nock (1870—1945) American libertarian author and social critic. _Memoirs of a Superfluous Man_ [1943], ch. 1, pt. 4 I've been in "Who's Who," and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. {on having an inflatable life jacket named after her} --Mae West (1893—1980) American stage and film actress. Letter to the RAF [early 1940s], in Fergus Cashin _Mae West_ [1981]. - Like a lot of husbands throughout history, Daniel Webster would sit down and try to talk to his wife. But as soon as he would start to say something, his wife said, "And what's that supposed to mean?" Thus Webster's Dictionary was born.  ;void(0)) DIET . . see: "THE BODY" see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. --Covert Bailey TV personality and author. Those two great medicines: Diet and Self-Control. --Max Bircher [Maximilian Oskar Bircher] (1867—1939) Swiss physician. In Gordon Young, _Doctors Without Drugs_ [1962]. Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what! --Erma Bombeck (1927—1996) American humorist. I'm trying to lose some weight so I've gone on a garlic diet. You eat garlic with everything. It doesn't make you lose any weight but people stand further back and you look thinner at a distance. --Noel Britton The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. --Julia Child (1912—2004) American chef, television personality, and author. One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to suffice for a man. --George Fordyce (1736—1802) Scottish physician. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. --Jackie Gleason (1916—1987) American comedian and actor. I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. --Jean Kerr (1923—2003) American writer, [wife of Walter Kerr]. _The Snake Has All the Lines_ [1958] For a quick pick-me-up, take a plain yoghurt, a banana and a few ice cubes in a blender and puree until smooth. Throw it at a skinny person. --Susan Maushart If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. --Francis Quarles (1592—1644) English poet. He was so skinny, you could actually see through him in a bright light. At the beach, he once drank too much strawberry pop and looked like a tall thermometer. --Mike Royko (1932—1997) American journalist. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_ [1599], Act I, Scene ii, Line 191 - My wife is on a diet, and since she's on a diet, Home isn't home any more; She won't give me potatoes, she stuffs me with tomatoes, Where are the pies I adore? This diet thing's an awful disgrace Why, I'm ashamed to look a grapefruit right in the face; My wife is on a diet, and since she's on a diet, I'm losing a pound every day! My wife is on a diet, and since she's on a diet, I'm just a bundle of nerves, When mine was big and stronger, I used to linger longer, I miss the detours and curves; When my arms I'd put 'round her hips, What a lot of fun I'd have in making two trips; My wife is on a diet, And since she's on a diet, she's gaining a pound every day! --"My Wife is On A Diet" (Tobias and Bennett) - I have lost half a stone. The Lead Plan diet I call it. (After recovering from being shot in the chest.) --attributed in 1989 to Frank Warren (1952— ) British boxing promoter. Eat properly, exercise daily, follow all medical advice, die anyway. --anon. The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. --- TRIVIA: Celery has negative calories — it takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it. ----- diaphanous (adj.) [dI-'æ-fê-nês] Thin and fragile, translucent, filmy or flimsy. gaunt (adj.) Thin and bony; angular. Synonyms: cadaverous, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted svelte (adj.) ['svelt] Slim, slender; elegant, graceful. ;void(0)) DIFFERENT/DIFFERENCES . . see "INDIVIDUALITY" for related links One of the most common defects of half-instructed minds is to think much of that in which they differ from others, and little of that in which they agree with others. --Walter Bagehot (1826—1877) British economist and essayist. In "Economist" [11 June 1870]. - When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady. --Lord Denning (1899—1999) British jurist. (On the difference between a diplomat and a lady [October 1982].) - There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. --William James (1842—1910) American philosopher. _The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy_ [1899] Stand with anybody that stands *right*. Stand will him while he is right and *part* with him when he goes wrong. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, [16 October 1854]. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. --Margaret Mead (1901—1978) American anthropologist. (In John Peers' _1,000 Logical Laws_ [1979], "Meade's Maxim".) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. --Bertrand Russell (1872—1970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. _The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914—1944_ [1968] The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. --Dame Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfiield] (1892—1983) British-Irish journalist, novelist, and critic. ----- aberrant (noun) ['æ-bêr-ênt or ê-'ber-ênt] Deviating from the normal, abnormal. anomaly (noun) [ê-'nah-mê-li] A deviation from the rule or normality; an irregularity that cannot be classified. disparate (adjective) ['dis-pê-rêt] Incompatibly different or incongruous in character or make-up. heterogeneous [het-uh-ruh-JEE-nee-uhs], adjective: Consisting of dissimilar elements, parts, or ingredients -- opposed to homogeneous. Ex.: "According to the historian Albert Fein, New York embodied 'the challenge of a democratic nation's capacity to plan for and maintain an urban environment to meet the needs of a uniquely heterogeneous population.' " --Robert A. M. Stern, et al., _New York 1880_ heterodox [HET-uh-ruh-doks], adjective: 1. Contrary to or differing from some acknowledged standard, especially in church doctrine or dogma; unorthodox. 2. Holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines. maverick (noun) ['mæ-vêr-ik] An orphan calf or other animal that leaves the pack or herd. An outsider, an iconoclast or self-oriented person who lives by his or her own rules, often perceived as a danger or threat. Etymology: The eponym is Samuel Maverick (1803-1870), who let his unbranded cattle roam wild. Other ranchers, who "adopted" them, called them "mavericks." raffish (adj.) 1. Displaying a charming free-spirited disregard for the conventions of society or for approved behavior 2. Displaying an exaggerated or obtrusive showiness rara avis [RAIR-uh-AY-vis], noun; A rare or unique person or thing. . . see "UNHAPPINESS" for related links Quite often, people who mean well will inquire of me whether I ever ask myself, in the face of my diseases, "Why me?" I never do. If I ask "Why me?" as I am assaulted by heart disease and AIDS, I must ask "Why me?"about my blessings, and question my right to enjoy them. The morning after I won Wimbledon in 1975 I should have asked "Why me?" and doubted that I deserved the victory. If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters. --Arthur Ashe (1943—1993) American tennis player and the first black winner of a major men's single championship. _Days of Glory_, p. 326. In youth we run into difficulties, in old age difficulties run into us. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885) American humorist. He seems To have seen better days, as who has not Who has seen yesterday? --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Werner_ [1822], act i, sc. i The three things most difficult are—to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. --Chilon (6th cent. B.C.) One of the Seven Sages of Greece. We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. --Samuel Daniel (1562—1619) English poet and dramatist. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. --Isak Dinesen (pseudonym of Karen Blixen) (1885—1962) Danish writer. Difficulties are things that show what men are. --Epictetus (55—135) Greek philosopher. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In _The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries_ [Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913] p. 379. One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse. --James Hagerty (1909—1981) Press Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In Robert Andrews _The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 5 [1887]. The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. --Helen Hayes (1900—1993) One of the most popular American stage actresses of the 20th century. Life is just one damned thing after another. --Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." In "Philistine" [December 1909]. 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. (1929—1968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes. --Lajos Kossuth (1802—1894) Hungarian lawyer and journalist. I must try not to let my own present unhappiness harden my heart against the woes of others! You too are going through a dreadful time. Ah well, it will not last forever. There will come a day for all of us when "it is finished." God help us all. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963) British scholar and novelist. _Letters to an American Lady_ [1967], "1 April 1957" Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. "The Rainy Day" [1842], st. 3 Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, it no longer matters. --Scott Peck (1936—2005) American author. _The Road Less Traveled_ [1978] Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success! --Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857) Russian-born French writer and salon hostess. - About 850 B.C., Odysseus, the hero from Homer's "The Odyssey," faced a perilous nautical journey between Scylla, a terrifying sea monster, and Charybdis, a massive whirlpool. As Homer's story was passed down through the generations, it became immortalized in the metaphor, "Between Scylla and Charybdis," which was used to describe the careful path one must take to emerge from two troubling fronts. --"Between Scylla and Charybdis" John J. Castellani, in "The Wall Street Journal" [23 August 2005] ----- quagmire (noun) 1. A soft marshy area of land that gives way when walked on 2. An awkward, complicated, or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to escape Sisyphean (adj.) [si-sê-'fee-ên] Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" . . see "CHARACTER" for related links Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle (384—322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. --Dag Hammarskjöld (1905—1961) Swedish diplomat; served as the Secretary General of the U.N. [1953-1961]. _Markings_ [1955], tr. Leif Sjöberg and W.H. Auden [1964] A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine." Never bend your head! Always hold it high! Look the world straight in the face! --Helen Keller (1880—1968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. To a five-year-old child, recalled on her death [1 June 1968]. Remember this, — that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180) Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, IV, 32 All celebrated people lose on a close view. --Napoleon I (1769—1821) Emperor of France [1804—1815]. ----- decorum (noun) Dignity: dignity or good taste that is appropriate to a specific occasion. deign (verb) [deyn] To consider appropriate to one's dignity or standing. The antonym is disdain. . . see "SUCCESS" for related links Diligence is the basis of wealth, and thrift the source of riches. --Chinese proverb - Diligence is the mother of good fortune. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605-1615], pt 1, ch. XLVI & see: Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. - Diligence overcomes Difficulties; Sloth makes them. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [November 1755] - We live in the age of the overworked and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "The Critic as Artist," _Intentions_ [1891] ----- assiduous (adjective) [ê-'sid-ju-wês] Persistently diligent and attentive at some activity; ardent. sedulous [SEJ-uh-luhs], adjective: 1. Diligent in application or pursuit; steadily industrious. 2. 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