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 . . . EXERCISE see: "JOGGING" see: "RUNNING" see: "WALKING" see: "THE BODY" see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links see: "FOOD & DRINK" for other related links Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _Tatler_, # 147 [1709-1711] 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]. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today and we don't know where the hell she is. --Ellen DeGeneres (b. 1958) American TV and film actress. Quoted in Gloria Kaufman (ed.) _In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire_ [1991]. I get my exercise serving as a pallbearer to my friends who take exercise. --Chauncey Depew (18341928) American orator, politician, and railroad president. Quoted in "L.A. Times" [4 May 1954]. [When asked if he ever got any exercise:] I only use my body to carry my brain around. --Thomas Alva Edison (18471931) American inventor. 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. "The Temperance Lecture" [1944] 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]. - 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. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In Hester Lynch Piozzi _Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson_ [4th ed. 1786]. - 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 - - The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. --Sir William Temple (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_, p. 169 [1829]. & see: A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. Introduction to the Art of Thinking [1761] - 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. "How To Live To Be 70" - 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] - 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: "ANTICIPATION" see: "BELIEF" see: "FUTURE" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [8 October 1712] 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. Attributed in John Cook (comp.) _The Book of Positive Quotations_, p. 448 [2007]. Don't believe the world owes you a living; it owes you nothing it was here first. --Robert Jones Burdette (18441914) American humorist and lecturer. Quoted in Evan Esar _The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations_ [1949]. Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay. --Chinese Proverb Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I've got to make is, that he has great expectations. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Great Expectations_, ch 18 [1861] What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Henrietta Temple_, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1837] Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Silas Marner_, ch. 18 [1861] It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. --Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle (16571757) French author. Attributed in J. De Finod (coll. & trans.) _A Thousand Flashes of French Wit_, p. 175 [1880]. - The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 17501752) "20 November 1750" As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - 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_, p. 379 [Pub. by the German Publication Society, 1913]. - [Of a man who remarried after the death of his first wife, with whom he had been unhappy:] The triumph of hope over experience. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ (Entry of 1770) [1791]. As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man *a good man*, upon easier terms than I was formerly. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ (Entry for September 1783) [1791]. - [Asked about his expectation of winning metals during the 2006 Winter Olympics:] "We have none." --Fabio Morandini Italian Nordic combined coach 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. Quoted in Nancy Scholar _Anais Nin_ [1984]. 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," in _Saturday Review_ [9 September 1967]. I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful; If not, it can't be helped. --Fritz Perls (18931970) German-born American psychiatrist. "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim" [1969] Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. _Letter to Fortescue_ [23 September 1725] There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Epistoloe Ad Lucilium_, XCVIII as attributed in J. K. Hoyt (ed.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 727 [1896]. There was a young lady...tut, tut! So you think you're in for some smut? Some five-line crescendo Of lewd innuendo? Well, you're wrong. This is anything but. --Stanley J. Sharpless The future is always fairy-land to the young. Life is like a very beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies, and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees as we advance, the trees grow bleak, the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived to reach a desert waste. --Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies _The Jilt_, ch. IX [1844] A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Mark Twain's Notebook_ [1935] Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. --Walter Winchell (18971972) American journalist. Quoted in Sidney Greenberg _A Treasury of the Art of Living_, p. 270 [1963]. . . 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. "Naked Truths and Veiled Allusions", as quoted in _The Literary News_ [April 1902]. 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. _Spiritual Gems of The Ages_ [1886] - 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, Sociologist In "NY Times Magazine" [9 March 1997]. - 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. Attributed in "Reader's Digest" [1922]. To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. --Chinese proverb 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] To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Table Talk_ [1836] 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_, XXV [1826 ed.] Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Vivian Grey_ [1827] 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_, ch. 13 [1917] - The years teach much which the days never know. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays. Second Series_ [1844] "Experience" 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" Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ [1860] - Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools learn in no other. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [December 1743] It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] 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] Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831) German philosopher. _Lectures on the Philosophy of World History_, vol. 10 Introduction [1830], translated by H. B. Nisbet [1975]. 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. Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia [23 March 1775]. 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.) _Texts and Pretexts_ [1932] - Cautious age suspects the flattering form, And only credits what experience tells. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "Irene" (his only play, first performed on 6 February 1749.) Judgment is forced upon us by experience. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Lives of the Poets_ [17791781] "Pope" - 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. [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. _On Liberty_ [1859] 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]. He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _Mercator_, IV, vii Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. _Autobiography_ [1913] 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 [1905] Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. --Pete Seeger (b. 1919) American folk singer and songwriter. Quoted in L. Botts _Loose Talk_ [1980]. 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 [1861]. Quoted in Karen Payne _Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers and Daughters, 1750-1982_ [1983]. Experience is the best teacher. --Thomas Taylor (15761633) English clergyman. _David's learning, or the way to true happiness_ [1617] 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" Been there, done that. --"Union Recorder" (University of Sydney) [4 October 1983] (Experto credite.) Trust one who has gone through it. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. _Aeneid_ [c. 29-19 B.C.] Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _Lady Windermere's Fan_, act III [1892] - 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. ;void(0)) 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]. 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] Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ "Intermission" [1973] 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_, p. 107 [2001]. 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 [188692, 18951901] Letter to Lord Lytton [15 June 1877]. If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. _Androcles and the Lion_, preface [1912] 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. Quoted in James W. McElhan _McElhaney's Litigation_, p. 217 [1995]. - Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark. --anon. ----- bailiwick [BAY-luh-wik], noun: 1. A person's specific area of knowledge, authority, interest, skill, or work. 2. The office or district of a bailiff. cognoscente [kon-yuh-SHEN-tee; kog-nuh-; -SEN-], noun; plural cognoscenti -tee: A person with special knowledge of a subject; a connoisseur. maven (noun) [ 'mey-vn] An expert or connoisseur; someone with profound knowledge of a subject. . . see: "TEACHING" [Of attacks in Parliament:] Never complain and never explain. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. Quoted in John Morley _Life of William Ewart Gladstone_ [1903]. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. In "Reader's Digest" [October 1977], as quoted in Larry Chang _Wisdom for the Soul ..._ p. 653 [2006]. Never explain your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Motto Book_ [1907] Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. --Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (19001944) French novelist. _The Little Prince_ (Le Petit Prince) [1943] ----- elucidate [ih-LOO-si-dayt], transitive verb: To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject. exegesis [ek-suh-JEE-sis], noun; plural exegeses [-seez]: Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text. ;void(0)) 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 (b. 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_, p. 89 [1961]. (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_, p. 391 [2004]. 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] - Go West, young man. --attributed to Horace Greeley (18111872) American newspaper editor. but note: Greeley's west wasn't California and Oregon, it was Illinois. In an editorial in July 1843 Greeley scolded the thousand emigrants who had just embarked. Their overland venture, he thundered, had an 'aspect of insanity' about it. 'There is probably not one among them whose outward circumstances will be improved by this perilous journey.' --John G. Mitchell "The Way West" in _National Geographic_ [September 2000]. also see: Go West, young man, go West! --John L.B. Soule (18151891) American journalist, in "Terra Haute (Indiana) Express" [1851]. - 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]. It is certain, says [Columbus], that this is the mainland, and that I am off Zayton and Quinsay [Shanghai and Hangchow, both Chinese ports] 100 leagues [about 300 miles] distant more or less from the one and the other, and this is shown by the sea, which looks different from what it has been until now. --Bartolomι de Las Casas (14841566) Spanish priest and historian. _Diary_ [1530s], in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 324 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: Thus on 1 Nov. 1492, coasting Cuba, [Columbus] decided he was off the Chinese mainland. 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_, p. 578 [2004]. 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. [Of Victoria Falls:] The most wonderful sight I had witnessed in Africa ... It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight. --David Livingstone (18131873) Scottish missionary and explorer. _Missionary Travels and Researches_ [1857] [When asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest:] Because it's there. --George Leigh Mallory (18861924) British mountaineer. "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]. 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_, p. 329 [2004]. 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. - [Of the South Pole:] Great God! This is an awful place. --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. "Message to the Public" _Times_ (London) [11 February 1913] - 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. Attributed newpaper advertisement in Julian L. Watkins _The 100 Greatest Advertisements_ [1949]. Note: According to Fred R. Shapiro (ed.) in _The Yale Book of Quotations_ [2006], "a search in the Times Digital Archive fails to retrieve it, and no trace of it has been found before the 1949 Watkins book." - 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. - There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen. And there are people who wonder what in the hell did happen. --anon. Quoted in "Naval Engineers Journal" [1967]. ----- doughty [DOW-tee], adjective: Marked by fearless resolution; valiant; brave. ;void(0)) EYES . . see: "CRYING" see: "OBSERVATION" see: "PERCEPTIONS" see: "SEEING" see: "TEARS" see: "VISION" see: "THE BODY" for other related links [Of President Vladimir Putin of Russia:] 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 (b. 1946) The 43rd President of the United States and a former Governor of Texas. 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 writer. _Uncle Vanya_, act 3 [1897] 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_, CXII [1820] - The eyes are the windows of the soul. --"Decatur Review" (Illinois) [14 February 1891] compare: These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. --Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas (15441590) French poet. _La Semaine_ (The First Week) [1578] "Sixth Day" - 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 But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. In a 1784 letter to Benjamin Vaughan as quoted in _The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin_ [1839]. ^ 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.] ^ [Declaring himself baffled by the appeal of the Fόhrer:] Many Germans, women in particular, used to descant to me upon the radiance of [Hitler's] expression and his remarkable eyes. I must confess he never gave me any impression of greatness. He was a spellbinder for his own people. To the last, I continued to ask myself how he had risen to what he was and how he maintained his ascendance over the German people. --Sir Nevile Henderson (18821942) British ambassador in Berlin [19371939]. _Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937-1939_ [1940] 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" Five foot two, eyes of blue, But oh! what those five feet could do, Has anybody seen my girl? --Sam M. Lewis (18851959) American lyricist. "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" [1925 song] Night hath a thousand eyes. --John Lyly (1554?1606) English prose stylist and playwright. "The Maid's Metamorphosis" [1600] (Authorship uncertain.) [Remark to British students in China:] You shouldn't stay here too long, or you'll turn slitty-eyed. --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921) Consort of Queen Elizaberh II. At Beijing University, Beijing, China [March 1986]. 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_ "Third 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 Reviews | |
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