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![]() . . . EXERCISE see: "JOGGING" see: "WALKING" see: "THE BODY" see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (18941956) American humorist. I only use my body to carry my brain around. --Thomas Alva Edison (18471931) American inventor. When asked if he ever got any exercise. Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got. --W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (18801946) American vaudeville star and film actor. Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you shouldn't take it. --attributed to Henry Ford (18631947) American car manufacturer. - Give about two [hours] every day to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785]. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises, walking is best. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [27 August 1786]. - The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. --Peter O'Toole (1932 ) British actor. - Exercising in Las Vegas - kap writes to USENET in 1997: Increasing our walk was good, because in addition to the added exercise, we now get improved scenery. As we walk west and slightly uphill, the sun is breaking on the Spring Mountains. These start as hills and gradually give way to the higher peaks, one of which is Mt. Charleston at 13,000 feet. From the smaller hills to Mt. Charleston the expanse probably covers 20-30 miles. Somewhere in the middle, you can see the flaming rocks of Red Rock Canyon. As the sun breaks over different parts of the panorama, the various hues are quite breathtaking. Most times the mountains out here seem drab. At daybreak they are spectacular. Heading back east is ok too. We can see the entire Strip. And can therefore plan where next we should lose our money. Did you know that the Mormons settled Las Vegas? They'd be mortified. --kap - Exercise!! I never heard that he used any: he might, for aught I know, walk to the alehouse; but I believe he was always carried home again. --Hester Lynch Piozzi (17411821) _Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson_ [4th ed. 1786] I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. - Researchers have found that physical exercise confers benefits upon the mind as well as the body. At Washington University in St. Louis, 32 subjects were given a battery of tests of mental function and personality traits. After they took part in a ten-week program of jogging, calisthenics, and physical recreation, they were tested again. In "Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise" (vol. 10, 1978), the researchers noted significant improvements in intelligence, speed of performance, learning, and brain function. --Roger B. Yepsen, Jr. _How To Boost Your Brain Power_ [1987] - The Fauna Of an Urban Gym: A Field Guide By TUNKU VARADARAJAN April 23, 2004 The Wall Street Journal [. . . ] Noticeable, too, is a category to which this writer has attached himself, that of the Readers. These are gym-users who come only to walk on the treadmill, and they do that only at a speed slow enough to allow them to pore over the printed word. This group is not as homogeneous as you'd imagine: Many an Atlantic Monthly treadmiller has tut-tutted on finding himself next to a reader of Family Circle. And once, yours truly treadmilled next to a man reading the Torah, who held his head unnaturally erect so as not to sweat on the sacred text. Most unpleasant of all, however, are the Cacophonists, who, as their name suggests, are incapable of going about their perspiration without bellowing, grunting or exhorting themselves loudly to ever higher levels of achievement. Their exhalations can be as emphatic as the airbrakes of an 18-wheeler; and if you ever hear someone shouting "Go girl! Go! You can do it!" do not turn around in search of the object of her encouragement in all likelihood, she is addressing herself. (A lethal combination, here, is the Narcissist-Cacophonist, the sort of creature who makes one yearn to restore blessed silence with that oh-so-handy 50-pound weight.) Part of the gym fauna, of course, are the Personal Trainers, who attend to every whim of the Great Unfit, all for a fee about $70 an hour in New York City. Naturally, the gym (aka the exercise/industrial complex) takes most of that money, so spare a thought for these indentured exertionists. Besides, elderly people and lonely city-dwellers often purchase sessions with PTs not to work out but to have someone to talk to for an hour. Freud? No, deltoid. [. . . ] -- Calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in strenuous activities that do not require physical exercise. Exercise Calories burned per hour Beating around the bush............................75 Jumping to conclusions.........................100 Climbing the walls...............................150 Swallowing your pride................................50 Passing the buck.................................25 Throwing your weight around (depending on your weight).......50-300 Dragging your heels...............................100 Pushing your luck................................250 Making Mountains out of molehills...........................500 Hitting the nail on the head.........50 Wading through paperwork............300 Bending over backwards............................75 Jumping on the bandwagon...........................200 Balancing the books................................25 Running around in circles.............................350 Eating crow................................225 Tooting your own horn.................................25 Climbing the ladder of success.............................750 Pulling out all the stops................................75 Adding fuel to the fire................................160 Wrapping it up at the day's end..................................12 Opening a can of worms ..............50 Putting your foot in your mouth.....300 Starting the ball rolling..............................90 Going over the edge.................................25 Picking up the pieces...............350 - I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over. --anon. ----- constitutional [kon-stih-TOO-shuhn-uhl]; noun: A walk taken for one's health. fartlek (noun) ['fah(r)t-lek] An athletic training technique developed in Sweden in the 1930s, comprising alternating periods of intense exercise with periods of less strenuous effort or any workout based on this technique. pandiculation (noun) [pζn-di-kyκ-'ley-shun] Stretching the body and extremities when drowsy or tired, usually accompanied by yawning, especially when going to bed or waking. ![]() . . see: "BELIEF" see: "FUTURE" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links If you expect perfection from other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling, and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped. --Bruce Barton (18861967) American advertising executive, religious writer, and Congressman. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In _The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries_ [Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913] p. 379. It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. --Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle (16571757) French author. We have none. --Fabio Morandini, Italy Nordic combined coach, asked about his expectations for winning metals during the 2006 Winter Olympics. We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. --Alan Stewart Paton (19031988) South African author. "The Challenge of Fear," "Saturday Review" [9 September 1967] Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _Letter to Fortescue_ [1725] Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. --Walter Winchell (18971972) American journalist. ![]() . . see: "EXAMPLE" see: "OBSERVATION" see: "WISDOM" see "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams (19522001) British comic radio dramatist and author. "Last Chance to See" Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. --Minna Thomas Antrim (18611950) American writer and epigrammist. It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. --Roger Ascham (15151568) English scholar, writer, and courtier. _The Schoolmaster_ [1570] This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. --James H. Aughey (18281911) American clergyman. - FROM THE NY TIMES MAGAZINE [9 March 1997] p.65: Here's a story. A man went to a rabbi and asked, "Rabbi, you're a wise man, how is it that you're wise?" And the rabbi replied, "Study and hard work." Then the man asked, "What made you study and work hard?" And the Rabbi replied, "A lot of experience." "And how'd you get a lot of experience?" And the rabbi answered, "I had good judgment." And the man then asked, "What gave you good judgment?" And the Rabbi said, "A lot of bad experiences." --Daniel Bell, 77, Sociologist - It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. I learned. . . that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street. --Agatha Christie (18901976) British crime fiction writer. _At Bertram's Hotel_ [1965] The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us! --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Table Talk_ [1835] "18 December 1831" Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experiences of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire. --Norman Douglas (18681952) Austrian-born British novelist and essayist. _South Wind_ [1917], ch.13 The years teach much which the days never know. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays. Second Series_ [1844] "Experience" Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1743], "December" What experience and history teach us is this that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831) German philosopher. _Philosophy of History_ [1832], v. 10 Introduction Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) American novelist and short-story writer. _American Note-Books_ [25 October 1836] I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. --Patrick Henry (17361799) American statesman, instrumental in the adoption of The Bill of Rights. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923] Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. In "Forbes", p. 56 [1917]. Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. --John Keats (17951821) English poet. Letter to George and Georgiana Keats [19 March 1819] in _The Letters of John Keats_ [1958], ed. Hyder Edward Rollins. Experience does not err; it is only your judgement that errs in expecting from her what is not in her power. --Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist. [Proverbs are] the ready money of human experience. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _My Study Windows_ [1871] There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. The old like children talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secret are one's own. --Eugene O'Neill (18881953) American and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. _Lazarus Laughed_ [1927] That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. --Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (17921870) French-Swiss lyric poet. In Julia B. Hoitt _Excellent Quotations for Home and School_, p. 150 [1888]. To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. In _A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages_, p. 164 [pub. 1869 by J.B. Lippincott]. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it .... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience. --George Santayana (18631952) Spanish-born philosopher and critic. _Life of Reason_ vol. 1, chap. 12, p. 284 [1905] Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. --Pete Seeger (1919 ) American folk singer and songwriter. In L. Botts _Loose Talk_ [1980]. Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] There are those among us that live in rooms of experience that you and I can never enter. --John Ernst Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) American writer and philanthropist. Letter to her twin daughters. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 11 epigram: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" Experto credite. Trust one who has gone through it. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Aeneid_ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _Lady Windermere's Fan_ [1892], act III - When a man with experience meets a man with money, the man with money gets the experience, and the man with experience gets the money. --anon. ----- doyen [DOY-en], noun: 1. The senior member of a body or group. 2. One who is knowledgeable or uniquely skilled as a result of long experience in some field of endeavor. doyenne doy-(Y)EN; dwah-YEN, noun: A woman who is a doyen. Ex.: Two dozen reporters, led by Helen Thomas of United Press International, the seventy-six-year-old doyenne of the press corps, filed into the room. --Howard Kurtz _Spin Cycle_ ![]() ![]() EXPERIMENT . . see "DISCOVERY" for related links There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Treatise on the Gods_ [1930], ch. 5 "Its State Today" Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur (18221895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Address given on the inaguration of the Faculty of Science, University of Lille [7 December 1854]. ![]() . . see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. --Niels Bohr (18851962) Danish physicist. In Robert Andrews _The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 100 [1989]. - An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. --attributed to Nicholas Murray Butler (18621947) President of Columbia University. In Peter McDonald _Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations_ [2004], p. 18. & note: Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. --Konrad Lorenz (19031989) Austrian zoologist. In Larry Collins _Physical Hazards of the Workplace_ [2001], p. 107. - None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible. --Henry Ford (18631947) American car manufacturer. _My Life and Work_ [1922] No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. --Lord Salisbury (18301903) British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister [18861892, 18951901] Letter to Lord Lytton [15 June 1877]. If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. In James W. McElhan _McElhaney's Litigation_, p. 217 [1995]. - Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark. --anon. ----- maven (noun) [ 'mey-vn] An expert or connoisseur; someone with profound knowledge of a subject. ![]() . . see: "TEACHING" Never Explain your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Motto Book_ [1907] ![]() ![]() EXPLORATION . . see "DISCOVERY" for related links see "TRAVEL" for related links That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. --Neil Armstrong (1930 ) American astronaut. After stepping onto the Moon [21 July 1969]; interference in the transmission obliterated _a_ between "for" and "man." The old people said 'Yes, it is so: these people are goblins; their eyes are at the back of their heads; they pull on shore with their backs to the land to which they are going.' --in J. C. Beaglehole _The Discovery of New Zealand_ [1961] p.89. (Referring to the Maori peoples' first sight of the English oarsmen at Coromandel on the North Island of New Zealand in 1852.) A good cheese for the whole voyage; three pounds of biscuit, half a pound of butter, and a quatern [quarter pint?] of vinegar per week; about a pint of fresh water per diem; every Sunday three-quarters of a pound of flesh; six ounces of salted cod every Monday and Wednesday; a quarter of a pound of stock-fish for every Tuesday and Saturday; grey pease and three-quarters of a pound of bacon, for Thursday and Friday: Besides this, as much oatmeal boiled in water as they could eat. --Buccaneers' rations on the Dutch group of ships captained by Hendrick Brouwer of Amsterdam [1643], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 391. Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. --Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1882?1959) British polar explorer. _The Worst Journey in the World_ [1922] I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Address to joint session of Congress [25 May 1961]. - This little fleet although not so respectable as those of Columbus or Captain Cook were still viewed by us with as much pleasure as those deservedly famed adventurers ever beheld theirs ... we were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden; the good or evil it had in store for us was for experiment yet to determine. --Meriwether Lewis (17741809) American explorer. _Journal_ v. 1 p. 285, in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 578. Cohan & Major add: President Thomas Jefferson bought the huge tract of Louisiana from France, doubling the size of the United States. The following year he commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore a passage through the territory and beyond it to the Pacific. The central purpose was to discover 'a North American route to India' for the trade of the United States. The expedition set off in the spring of 1804 and reached the Pacific coast on 7 Nov. 1805. - There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. --James Lovell (1928 ) American NASA astronaut. In a speech. Because it's there. --George Leigh Mallory (18861924) British mountaineer. On being asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, in "New York Times" [18 March 1923]. We will find in the lives of men who have done anything, of those whom we call great men, that it is this spirit of adventure, the call of the unknown, that has lured and urged them along on their course ... All of us are explorers in life, whatever trail we follow ... It is the explorers with the true spirit of adventure we now need if humanity shall really overcome the present difficulties ... Ah, youth. What a glorious word! Unknown realms ahead of you, hidden behind the mists of the morning. As you move on, new islands appear, mountain summits shoot up through the peering mists, one behind another, waiting for you to climb; dense new forests unfold for you to explore, free boundless plains for you to traverse. --Fridtjof Nansen (18611930) Norwegian polar explorer. Speech on being installed as Rector of the University of Aberdeen [November 1926]. In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_ [2006]. These [Maori] are the only people who kill their fellow creatures purely for the meat, which we are well assured they do by laying in wait for one another as a sportsman would for his game ... carrying in their ears the thumbs of those unhappy sufferers. --Journal of Richard Pickersgill [January 1770] in J.C. Beaglehole (ed.) _The Journals of Captain James Cook : The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771_ [1955] - We were three months and twenty days without getting any kind of fresh food. We ate biscuit which was no longer biscuit but its powder; swarming with worms, for they had eaten what was good. It stank strongly of rats' urine. We drank yellow water already putrid for many days ... Rats were sold for half a ducat apiece ... The gums of both the lower and upper teeth of some of our men swelled, so that they could not eat under any circumstances and therefore died. --Antonio Pigafetta _Journal_ [1525], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 329. Cohan & Major note: An Italian gentleman, Pigafetta went along as a supernumerary and produced what is by far the most interesting account of [Magellan's] voyage. 19 men died of scurvy, and another 25 or 30 fell sick. - - Great God! This is an awful place. {of the South Pole} --Robert Falcon Scott (18681912) English polar explorer. Diary [17 January 1912]. 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 dead bodies must tell the tale. --Robert Falcon Scott (18681912) English polar explorer. - Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition is case of success. --Ernest Shackleton (18741922) British Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. Newspaper announcement before his Endurance Expedition. Go West, young man, go West! --John L.B. Soule (18151891) American journalist, in "Terra Haute (Indiana) Express" [1851]. - And the reason why the general's men stood in better health than the men of other ships was this; he [James Lancaster, the commander of the East India Company's first fleet] brought to sea with him certain bottles of the juice of lemons, which he gave to each one, as long as it would last, three spoonfuls every morning, fasting; not suffering them to eat anything after it till noon ... by this means the general cured many of his men and preserved the rest. --anon., in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: ... diarist aboard the Red Dragon, the flagship of this first company voyage to the Spice Islands, explaining the diet not shared by the other ships. This effective cure for scurvy seems to have been forgotten until Captain Cook rediscoved it 170 years later. ----- doughty [DOW-tee], adjective: Marked by fearless resolution; valiant; brave. Ex.: He was obsessed with the Arctic, his imagination stoked by epic accounts of the doughty pioneers who had led wooden ships into uncharted waters and northern mists. --Sara Wheeler, "In Cold Blood?" _New York Times_ [25 February 2001] ![]() ![]() EYES . . see: "CRYING" see: "OBSERVATION" see: "PERCEPTIONS" see: "TEARS" see: "VISION" see: "THE BODY" for other related links I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. [. . .] I was able to get a sense of his soul. [. . . ] --George W. Bush (1946 ) The 43rd President of the United States and a former Governor of Texas. (Of President Vladimir Putin of Russia,) at a press conference [16 June 2001.] When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' --Anton Chekhov (18601904) Russian dramatist and short-story wrriter. _Uncle Vanya_ [1897], Act 3 The love light in her eye. --Hartley Coleridge (17961849) English poet. "She is not Fair to Outward View" In William Hone _The Table Book_, p. 283 [1828]. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. --Epictetus (55135) Greek philosopher. _Fragments_ XCVIII In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. --Desiderius Erasmus (14691536) Dutch humanist and theologian. _Adagia_ [1500], III, IV, 96 ^ Oliver St John Gogarty (18781957) Irish poet. Entering a tavern one day, Gogarty caught sight of a friend wearing a patch over one eye. He greeted him: 'Drink to me with thine only eye.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Her eyes, oh her eyes! In all her beauty, and sunlight to it is a pit, den, darkness, Foam-falling is not fresh to it, rainbow by it not beaming, In all her body, I say, no place was like her eyes, No piece matched those eyes kept most part much cast down But, being lifted, immortal, of immortal brightness. --Gerard Manley Hopkins (18441889) British Victorian poet. "St. Winefred's Well" Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. --Dr. Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith (18001879) American doctor, editor, author, and mayor of Boston. _The Ways of Women in their Physical, Moral and Intellectual Relations_, p. 19 [1875] The sight of you is good for sore eyes. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738] - "His eye bothers me." "Which one?" "The middle one." --"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" ----- abacinate (verb) [κ-'bζ-sκ-neyt] To blind with a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. ocular (adjective) ['ah-kyκ-lκr] (1) Pertaining to or seen by the eye or eyes; (2) visual, related to vision. ogle (verb) ['o-gκl] To stare at in an obvious fashion with eyes wide open, especially out of salacious interest. scotopia (noun) normal vision in dim light. Derived: scotopic, adj. end page | EARS - ECONOMY (THE) | EDUCATION | EFFORT - ELEPHANTS | ELOQUENCE - EMOTION | EMOTIONS & FEELINGS | EMPIRE - ENERGY | ENGLAND - ENGLISH (THE) | ENGLISH (LANGUAGE) | ENLIGHTENMENT - ENVY | ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES | EPITAPHS - EQUAL RIGHTS | ERROR - EVIDENCE | EVIL - EXECUTIONS | EXERCISE - EYES | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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