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;void(0)) . . . EMPIRE see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links see: "WAR & PEACE" for related links Great Britain ... has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. --Dean Acheson (18931971) American politician. Speech at the Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. [5 December 1962]. - 22nd Dec., 1900. The old century is very nearly out, and leaves the world in a pretty pass, and the British Empire is playing the devil in it as never an empire before on so large a scale. We may live to see its fall. All the nations of Europe are making the same hell upon earth in China, massacring and pillaging and raping in the captured cities as outrageously as in the Middle Ages. The Emperor of Germany gives the word for slaughter and the Pope looks on and approves. In South Africa our troops are burning farms under Kitchener's command, and the Queen and the two houses of Parliament, and the bench of bishops thank God publicly and vote money for the work. The Americans are spending fifty millions a year on slaughtering the Filipinos; the King of the Belgians has invested his whole fortune on the Congo, where he is brutalizing the Negroes to fill his pockets. The French and Italians for the moment are playing a less prominent part in the slaughter, but their inactivity grieves them. The whole white race is reveling openly in violence, as though it had never pretended to be Christian. God's equal curse be on them all! So ends the famous nineteenth century into which we were so proud to have been born. . . . 31st Dec., 1900. I bid good-bye to the old century, may it rest in peace as it has lived in war. Of the new century I prophesy nothing except that it will see the decline of the British Empire. Other worse empires will rise perhaps in its place, but I shall not live to see the day. It all seems a very little matter here in Egypt, with the pyramids watching us as they watched Joseph, when, as a young man four thousand years ago, perhaps in this very garden, he walked and gazed at the sunset behind them, wondering about the future just as I did this evening. And so, poor wicked nineteenth century, farewell! --Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (18401922) English poet and publicist. _My Diaries, 1888-1914_ [1921] - At the end of the war Britain was faced with three possible courses of action: to maintain her political domination in South-East Asia by force; to abandon her entire position in the area; or to come to an amicable settlement whereby both national aspirations and British interests and influence were safeguarded. We chose the last of these courses, and our policy in India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma has, in the event, proved to have been one of the major factors in ensuring that the countries of South-East Asia, if not yet actual allies in the struggle against Soviet communism, are at least looking to the West for support, rather than to Russia. The French and the Dutch have been slower to appreciate the inevitable march of events in Asia. --Cabinet paper [October 1949], in A.J. Stockwell (ed.) _Malaya_ pt. 2, pp.162-3 [1995]. Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. Trans. of Ovid's "Pythagorean Philosophy" [c. 1697]. ^ At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States was already a rich and powerful country, stretching its muscles, reaching out toward an overseas empire. By the end of the century, it was much richer, and much more powerful; the superpower in the world. It had come out on top in two world wars (there were more ambiguous outcomes in some smaller, less glorious wars). Most of its rivals had faded away. When Queen Victoria died, in 1901, the sun never set on the British empire; it controlled a quarter of the world. By 2000 the British empire had been reduced to a pitiful handful of islands; China swallowed Hong Kong in 1997, the last significant outpost of empire; the population of the bits and fragments left over from imperial days (Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and others) would hardly fill a football stadium. All the other empires, too, had crumbled into dust. Two world wars and the winds of change stripped France of her glory; her African and Asian colonies were long since gone. She too still had an island here and there, and tattered remnants of neocolonialism in French-speaking parts of Africa. Germany lost its empire after the First World War, and had to disgorge its conquests after the Second. The First World War put an end to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Second World War put paid to the empire the Japanese had cobbled together. Dutch and Portuguese possessions became independent after World War II; the last Portuguese outpost, Macao, passed to China at the end of 1999. The most recent empire to go was the Soviet Union, which never admitted it was an empire; it collapsed like a house of cards in 1989. At the end of the century, the Russian bear was a sick, limping, lumbering mess. China loomed on the horizon; still something of an empire (certainly, the Tibetans thought so), vast, overpopulated; but so far not a serious rival to American rule in the world. --Lawrence M. Friedman (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 19 "Law: An American Export" pp. 572-573 ^ This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated. --Edward Gibbon (17371794) English historian. _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, ch. 2 [17761788] "What is your desire? Would you have a tale of the Caliph of Bagdad? Or from the siege of Troy? A reading from Aristophanes? From Firdausi? Or would you hear of far seas and lands unknown to the Byzantines? "Can there be such?" He lifted a supercilious eyebrow. "Byzantium is the center of the world!" "Ah...?" "You doubt it, vagabond?" "I was remembering Rome, Carthage, Babylon, Nineveh... each in its own time the center of the world, all ruins now." He was amused. "Do you imagine this city will be as those? You jest." "Had I asked in any of those cities, would anyone have believed they someday would lie in ruins? Each age is an age that is passing, and cities, my friend, are transitory things. Each is born from the dust; each matures, grows older, then it fades and dies. A passing traveler looks at a mound of sand and broken stones and asks 'What was here?' and his answer is only an echo or a wind drifting sand." --Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (19081988) American author of Western fiction. _The Walking Drum_ [1984] Were the countries [of Africa] ready for independence? Of course not. Nor was India, and the bloodshed that followed the grant of independence there was incomparably worse than anything that has happened since to any country. Yet the decision of the Attlee Government was the only realistic one. Equally we could not possibly have held by force to our territories in Africa. We could not, with an enormous force engaged, even continue to hold the small island of Cyprus. General de Gaulle could not contain Algeria. The march of men towards their freedom can be guided, but not halted. Of course there were risks in moving quickly. But the risks of moving slowly were far greater. --Iain Macleod (19131970) British Conservative Party politician and government minister. In _The Spectator_ [13 January 1964], p.127. Many of the Boers [the Dutch farmers living outside Cape Town] possess 200 or 300 oxen, 100, 150 or more cows, 2,000 to 3,000 sheep, 40 or 50 horses, 20, 30 or more bond slaves, and a large estate. Many an African Boer, therefore, would think twice about changing places with a German nobleman. --F. Mentzel _Life at the Cape in the mid-18th Century_, p. 129 [1919] The Mongol empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest continuous land empire that has so far existed. At its greatest extent it stretched from Korea to Hungary, including, except for India and the southeast of the continent, most of Asia, as well as a good deal of eastern Europe. As a whole it lasted for well over a century, and parts of it survived for very much longer. It was merely one, albeit by far the most extensive, of a series of great steppe empires; and it should be seen in the context provided by its predecessors. The major difference between the Mongols and previous conquerors is that no other nomad empire had succeeded in holding both the Inner Asian steppe and the neighboring sedentary lands simultaneously. --David Morgan _The Mongols_, p. 5 [1986] Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. Quoted in "The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine" [May 1843]. Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. --David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech (19181985) British diplomat. In "New York Times" [28 October 1962]. You Venetians, it is certain, are very wrong to disturb the peace of other states rather than to rest content with the most splendid state of Italy, which you already possess. If you knew how you are universally hated, your hair would stand on end ... do you believe that these powers in Italy, now in league together, are truly friends among themselves? Of course they are not, it is only necessity, and the fear which they feel of you and your power, that has bound them in this way ... You are alone, with all the world against you, not only in Italy but beyond the Alps too. Know then that your enemies do not sleep. Take good counsel, for, by God, you need Galeazzo Sforza. --Galeazzo Sforza (14441476) Duke of Milan. To Giovanni Gonnella, secretary of the Venetian republic, in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 299 [2004]. If the US is an empire it's a very odd one: Countries where it has troops such as Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Germany suggest they are unhappy about that and the response is, 'OK," and an offer to leave. Nero and Napoleon would have been appalled. --R. James Woolsey (b. 1941) Director of the CIA (19931995). "We Are All Jews" [29 September 2003] - I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark. --anon. ----- hegemony (noun) [hκ-'je-mκ-ni] The dominant influence or authority over others, especially among states and nations.   EMPLOYMENT . . see: "WORK" for related links Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. --Hilaire Belloc (18701953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Lord Finchley" [1911] [Response after being requested to agree to a salary cut from $20,000 to $7,500:] Tell you what, you keep the salary and pay me the cut. --Vernon (Lefty) Gomez (19081989) American major-league baseball player. Quoted in Colin Jarman _The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations_ [1990]. Body-piercing. A powerful, compelling visual statement that says 'Gee . . . in today's competitive job market, what can I do to make myself even *more* unemployable?' --Dennis Miller (b. 1953) American stand-up comedian & actor. _Ranting Again_ [1998] (Emphasis & ellipsis as written) In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of imcompetence. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _The Peter Principle_ [1969] Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) Consort of Queen Elizabeth II. (In 1981, in reference to the economic recession.) "Long line of princely gaffes", BBC [1 March 2002]. Salt Lake City was healthy an extremely healthy city. They declared that there was only one physician in the place and he was arrested every week regularly and held to answer under the vagrant act for having 'no visible means of support.' --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872] . . see: "MOTIVATION" see: "KINDNESS" for other related links There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous, or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. --attributed to George Matthew Adams (18781962) American newspaper columnist. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. --William R. Alger (18221905) American minister and writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 66 [10th ed. 1884]. - As a boy, Sir Walter Scott was left weak and lame by a severe attack of fever. Some people thought he would never amount to anything in life. When Scott was a teenager, he visited in a home where some famous writers were being entertained. The poet Robert Burns was among them. In one room was a picture under which was written a beautiful bit of verse. Burns asked who wrote it, but no one seemed to know. Timidly, Scott gave the writer's name and quoted the rest of the poem. Burns was impressed. Laying his hand on young Walter's head, he said, "Ah, my boy, I'm sure you'll be a great man in Scotland someday!" That brief conversation was the affirmation Walter Scott needed to set him on the road to greatness. --Henry G. Bosch (19141995) Religious figure. _Our Daily Bread_ [4 November 1990] "An Encouraging Word" - A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. --attributed to Bennett Cerf (18981971) American author, humorist, and publisher. So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' --attributed to Tommy Cooper (19211984) Welsh comedian and magician. Nine tenths of education is encouragement. --attributed to Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (18441924) French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. --attributed to Edmund Gibson (16691748) English theologian and jurist. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure, is as the sun after a shower. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In _Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art_, p. 55 [John W. Parker, London, 1853]. I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all, and the toiler's truest and best reward. --William Dean Howells (18371920) American novelist and critic. Quoted in Orison Swett Marden _How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves_, ch. XI [1901] (From an interview in Success Magazine.) ^ G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, 'Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when she says 'No,' he will say, 'Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy." ^ Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticise me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I shall never forget you. --attributed to William Arthur Ward (19211994) American college administrator and author. ----- hortatory [HOR-tuh-tor-ee], adjective: Marked by strong urging; serving to encourage or incite; as, "a hortatory speech."  ENDINGS . . see: "BEGINNINGS" see: "CONSEQUENCES" see: "LAST WORDS" see: "QUITTING" see: "LIFE" for other related links Every one is the son of his own works. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist, _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. I, bk. IV, ch. xx [1605] [Of the Battle of Egypt:] This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Speech at Mansion House, London [10 November 1942]. The party's over, it's time to call it a day. --Betty Comden (19192006) & Adolph Green (19152002) Lyricists and screenwriting duo. "The Party's Over" [1956 song] - The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. --Dan Cook In "Washington Post" [3 June 1978]. & see; It ain't over till it's over. --Yogi Berra (b. 1925) American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. _The Yogi Book_ [1997] - The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Henrietta Temple_ [1837] In my beginning is my end. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. _Burnt Norton_ [1936] A bad ending follows a bad beginning. --Euripides (485?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. "Melanippe the Wise" [c. 420 B.C.] All good things must come to an end. --"Forest and Stream" [22 September 1887] [Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton):] I'm melting! I'm melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! --"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939] Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. If well thou hast begun, go on foreright; It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. --Robert Herrick (15911674) English poet and clergyman. _Hesperides_ l. 309 Of a good beginning cometh a good end. --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Proverbs_, pt. I, ch. x [1546] - When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. --Helen Keller (18801968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. _We Bereaved_ [1929] & note: This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. --Mitch Albom (b. 1958) American sportswriter, novelist and newspaper columnist. _The Five People You Meet in Heaven_ [2003], "The End" - The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. --Jean de La Bruyθre (16451696) French essayist and moralist. _Les Caractθres_, IV [1688] The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_, XXXII [1665] The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Hyperion_, bk. I, ch. I [1839] - In the actions of men . . . the end justifies the means. --Niccolς Machiavelli (14691527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. _The Prince_ [written 1513] & see: The end must justifie the means. --Matthew Prior (16641721) English poet. _Hans Carvel_, l. 67 - The happy ending is our national belief. --Mary McCarthy (19121989) American novelist. "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub", in _Commentary_ [September 1947]. Good to begin well, better to end well. --John Ray (16271705) English naturalist and botanist. _A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1678] The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war an end to the beginnings of all wars. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. (Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, [13 April 1945] the day after Roosevelt died - ODTQ.) The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Importance of Being Earnest_, act 2 [1895] Of three things there is no end: the cawing of the raven, the braying of the ass, and the vanity of a man in love. --Bernardo, character in Frank Yerby, _The Golden Hawk_ [1948]. ----- dιnouement (noun) [de-nu-'moN] The final resolution and clarification of a plot following its climax; the final, climactic unraveling of a mystery or other complex situation. quietus [kwy-EE-tuhs], noun: 1. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation. 2. Removal from activity; rest; death. 3. Something that serves to suppress or quiet. Ex.: Consider a small police-blotter report from an 1875 issue of The Grant County Herald in Silver City, N[ew] M[exico]: 'We learn that on Friday, Jose Garcia, who lives at the Chino copper mines, caught his wife in flagrante delicto -- we leave the reader to guess the crime -- Jose, then and there, gave her the quietus with an axe.' --Thomas Kunkel, "The Pen Is Mightier Than the Six-Shooter," _New York Times_, [30 August 1998] sempiternal [sem-pih-TUR-nuhl], adjective: Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless. Synonyms: enduring, eternal, everlasting, perpetual. terminus [TUR-muh-nuhs], noun: 1. The finishing point; the end. 2. A boundary; a border; a limit. 3. A post or stone marking a boundary.  ENEMIES . . see: "ADVERSARIES" see: "HATE" see: "MALICE" see: "QUARRELS" see: "REVENGE" see: "WAR & PEACE" for other related links - A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. --Ζsop (c. 620 B.C.c. 560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop Fables_, "The Hound and the Hare" We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ "The Eagle and the Arrow" - I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (18941956) American humorist. Attributed in "Reader's Digest", vol. 55 [1949]. What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own. --Anacharsis (600 BC) Scythian prince. "Stobstus, Plorilegium", ii. 43, as quoted in William S. Walsh _The International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations_, p. 223 [1908]. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. --Antisthenes (c. 445c. 365 BC) Greek philosopher. In Diogenes Laλrtius _Lives of the Eminent Philosophers_, VI, xii. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. --Arabian proverb Men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties. --Aristophanes (c. 450c. 388 BC) Greek comic dramatist. "Aves Graece", as quoted in Craufurd Tait Ramage _Beautiful Thoughts from Greek Authors_, p. 45 [1864]. He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight. --Anton Alexander Auersperg [pseu. Anastasius Grόn] (18061876) Austrian poet. Quoted in Kate Louise Roberts _Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 221 [1922]. Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. --Stella Benson (18921933) English novelist and poet. _This Is the End_ [1917] He that is not with me is against me. --Bible "Matthew" 12:30 & "Luke" 11:23 Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. "Affurisms" in _Josh Billings: His Sayings_ [1865]. Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. --Sir Thomas Browne (16051682) English writer and physician. _Religio Medici_ [1643] Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist, playwright, and politician. _What Will He Do With It?_, bk. IX, ch. III. (Under the name of Pisistratus Caxton the book was published in Blackwood's Magazine from June, 1857 to January, 1859.) He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] - Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. --George W. Bush (b. 1946) The 43rd President of the United States and a former Governor of Texas. Address to joint session of Congress [20 September 2001]. Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. --George W. Bush (b. 1946) The 43rd President of the United States and a former Governor of Texas. Remarks at signing of an appropriations bill [5 August 2004]. - Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies. --Chinese proverb - You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --attributed to Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. - I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XXXV [1820] An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game, because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XCVIII [1820] If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCLXXV [1821 ed.] - You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. --Joseph Conrad (18571924) Polish-born English novelist. _Lord Jim_ [1900] If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. --Moshe Dayan (19151981) Israeli military leader and politician. Quoted in Barbara Rowes _The Book of Quotes_ [1979]. Nobody's enemy but his own. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _David Copperfield_, ch. 25 [1850] Love your enemies, just in case your friends turn out to be bunch of bastards. --attributed to R.A. Dickson [When asked to distinguish between misfortune and calamity:] If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are routinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies. --attributed to E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow (b. 1931) American writer. - Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1733] Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1756] - [Edmund Nagle attempting to inform George IV that Napoleon is dead:] 'Sir, your bitterest enemy is dead.' 'Is she, by God!' said the tender husband. --King George IV (17621830) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [18201830]. In the _Journal of Hon. Henry Edward Fox_ (entry for 25 August 1821). MAN: President [Franklin D. Roosevelt] is his own worst enemy. GEORGE: Not as long as I'm alive, he's not. --Walter George (18781957) 1938 remark by U.S. Senator from Georgia, in Cokie Roberts "Divided Government Is the Best Revenge" _New York Times_ [27 August 1992]. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. --Baltasar Graciαn (16011658) Spanish Jesuit philosopher. _The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647] A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends. --Joseph Hall (15741656) English bishop, moral philosopher, and satirist. Quoted in Matthew Russell (ed.) _The Irish Monthly_, V. xvi [1888]. One must forgive one's enemies, but not till they are hanged. --Heinrich Heine (17971856) German poet. Quoted in "The Fortnightly Review" [1 March 1870]. - Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate and quickly. --Robert A(nson) Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] - The enemy is anyone who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller (19231999) American novelist. _Catch-22_ [1961] - If you attend to your work, and let your enemy alone, some one else will come along some day, and do him up for you. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] - May those who love us, love us, And those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts, And if he doesn't turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles So we'll know them by their limping. --Irish toast In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. In Rev. S. P. Linn _Golden Gleams of Thought_, p. 259 [1909]. The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (19091966) Polish writer. _Unkempt Thoughts_, tr. Jacek Galazka [1962] If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "Table-Talk" _Driftwood_ [1857] Folks never understand the folks they hate. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _The Biglow Papers_ Second Series [1867] I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. --William Melmoth (17101799) English author. _Fitzosborne's Letters, on Several Subjects_ [7th ed. 1769, pub. 1742] Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore, whoever would laugh or argue it out of the world, without giving some equivalent for it, ought to be treated as a common enemy. --Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (16891762) English aristocrat and writer. Letter to the Countess of Bute [23 June 1752], in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) _The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu_ ]3 vols, 1837]. You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. --Horatio Nelson (17581805) British naval commander. Quoted in Robert Southey _The Life of Nelson_, vol. 1 [2vols., 1813]. How acceptable sound bad music and bad motives when we march against an enemy! --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Dawn of Day_ [1881] We have met the enemy and they are ours. --Oliver Hazard Perry (17851819) American naval officer. Message to William Henry Harrison announcing American victory over the British at the naval battle of Lake Erie [10 September 1813]. Your friends sometimes go to sleep, your enemies never do. --Thomas Brackett Reed (18391902) American lawyer and politician. In an address [6 March 1891], quoted in William A. Robinson _Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian_ [1930]. - Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. _The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_, ch. VIII, # x [1258] It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the sight of a single enemy. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. _The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_, ch. V, tale xv [1258] Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. _The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_, ch. VIII, # xii [1258] - Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry VIII_, I, i [1613] Know your enemies: avoid them, if you can; intimidate them, if you can't, subdue them, if you must. --Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiatrist. _The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary_ [1990], "Ethics" He makes no friend who never made a foe. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) English poet. _Idylls of the King_, l. 1109 The enemy of my enemy is my friend. --"Times" (London) [9 July 1929] I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Letter to M. Damilaville [16 May 1767]. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. --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]. _Address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island_ [27 August 1776]. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. Essay in "The New Yorker" [1958] - A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_, Ch. 1 [1891] [Of George Bernard Shaw:] He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Quoted by W.B. Yeats in his 1891 review of Wilde's _Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories_. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Attributed in Fritz Heider _The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations_ [1958]. - Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. They made me suffer (after all, they were enemies), but I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. --Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929) American entomologist and biologist. _Naturalist_, ch. 12 [1994] "The Molecular Wars" If you want to make enemies, try to change something. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. Address in Detroit, MI [10 July 1916]. ----- inimical [ih-NIM-ih-kul], adjective: Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable. quisling (noun) ['kwiz-ling] A traitor who turns against his or her own country to serve an invader. Etymology: A commonization of the last name of Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), head of Norway's government during the Nazi occupation of World War II. . . see: "EFFORT" see: "FORCE" see: "STRENGTH" He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. --John Foster (17701843) English clergyman and essayist. _Essays, in a Series of Letters_ [1804] Energy and persistence conquer all things. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 130 [1886]. It keeps going, and going, and going ... --Energizer batteries advertising slogan ----- dervish (noun) ['dκr-vish] A Muslim friar or fakir belonging to a sect that induces mystical trances by dancing feverishly while chanting religious phrases ("whirling dervish" or "howling dervish"), hence anyone possessed of frenetic energy. enervate (verb) ['en-κr-veyt] Deprive someone of vitality or energy. indefatigable (adj.) Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless. Synonyms: tireless, unflagging, unwearying lackadaisical Without much enthusiasm, energy, or effort. lassitude [LASS-uh-tood], noun: Lack of vitality or energy; weariness; listlessness. renascent [rih-NAS-uhnt], adjective: Springing or rising again into being; showing renewed vigor. roborant [ROB-uh-ruhnt], adjective: 1. Strengthening; restoring vigor. 2. 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