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FACTS --- FAIR --- FAITH
FAITHFULNESS --- FALL --- FAME

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FACE

see: "BEARDS"
see: "BEAUTY"
see: "EARS"
see: "EYES"
see: "NOSE"
see: "SMILES"
see: "UGLY"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry
smiles and sunshine in my face when discontent
sits heavy at my heart.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_Cato, a Tragedy_, act. I [1712]

My face looks like a wedding-
cake left out in the rain.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
In Humphrey Carpenter _W.H. Auden_ [1981].

I think your whole life shows in your
face and you should be proud of that.
--Lauren Bacall [Betty Joan Perske] (b. 1924)
American actress.
Quoted in "Daily Telegraph" (London) [2 March 1988].

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight,
when one sees half with the eye and half with
the fancy.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries Of Thought_ [1862]

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
With the dream of, meet death with.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"A Likeness"

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport.
But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
--Julie Burchill (b. 1959)
English journalist.
_Sex and Sensibility_ [1992], "Kiss and Tell"

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_, pt. III, sec. III [1621-1651]

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A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools
think you a good-natured man, and make designing
men think you an undesigning one.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Attributed in Charles Simmons
_A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker_, p. 109 [1852].


Look in the face of the person to whom you are
speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments;
for he can command his words more easily than
his countenance.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Attributed in _Day's Collacon: An Encyclopaedia Of Prose Quotations_ [1884].

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That same face of yours looks like the
title-page to a whole volume of roguery.
--Colley Cibber (1671—1757)
English actor and playwright.
_She Would and She Would Not_, III, i [1702]

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman
to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was
possibly an idiot.
--Salvadore Dali (1904—1989)
Spanish painter.
Preface to Pierre Cabanne _Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp_ [1968].

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There is nothing truer than physiognomy,
taken in connection with manner.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Hunted Down_, ch. I [1859 short story]


Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers
and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
Attributed in _The Sabbath Recorder_ [6 December 1920].

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As a beauty I'm not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face — I don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
It's the folks out in front that I jar.
--Anthony Euwer (1877—1955)
American author.
"The Face" [1917]

[Upon first seeing his future wife, Caroline of Brunswick:]
Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
--King George IV (1762—1830)
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1820—1830].

The language of the face is not taught by the schools;
it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
--Julia Ward Howe (1819—1910)
American Unitarian lay preacher.
Attributed in _Locomotive Engineers' Journal_, vol. XLIV [1910].

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 31 [1882].

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
_Old Familiar Faces_ [1798]

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865)
American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865].
In 1858 when debating Stephen Douglas, as quoted
in _U.S. News & World Report_, vol. 144 [2008].

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
--Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
English dramatist and poet.
"Doctor Faustus", V, i [1604]

His face was filled with broken commandments.
--John Masefield (1878—1967)
English novelist, poet, and playwright.
Quoted in H. V. Prochnow
_New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom_, p. 86 [1958].

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
Last words in his notebook [17 April 1949].

A large nose is in fact the sign of an
affable man, good, courteous, witty,
liberal, courageous, such as I am.
--Edmond Rostand (1868—1918)
French dramatist.
_Cyrano de Bergerac_ [1897]

As a rule a man's face says more of interest than does
his tongue; for it is a compendium of all that he will
ever say, since it is the monogram of all his thoughts
and aspirations. The tongue also expressed only the
thoughts of one man, but the face expresses a thought
of nature herself.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
'On Physiognomy', _Parerga and Paralipomena_ [1851]

God hath given you one face, and
you make yourselves another.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, III, i [1601]

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lineament [LIN-ee-uh-muhnt], noun:
1. A distinctive shape, contour, or line, especially of the face.
2. A distinguishing or characteristic feature; -- usually in the plural.

physiognomy [fiz-ee-OG-nuh-mee], noun:
1. The art of discovering temperament and other characteristic
qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially
by the features of the face.
2. The face or facial features, especially when regarded as
indicating character.



FACTS

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see: "CERTAINTY"
see: "EVIDENCE"
see: "IMAGINATION"
see: "OPINION"
see: "PERCEPTION"
see: "REALITY"
see: "STATISTICS"
see: "TRUTH"


Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot
alter the state of facts and evidence.
--John Adams (1735—1826)
First VP and second President of the United States.
"Argument in Defense of the [British] Soldiers
in the Boston Massacre Trials," [December 1770].

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but
no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
--Bernard Baruch (1870—1965)
American financier.
Quoted in "Think" [pub. by I.B.M., July 1948].

To treat your facts with imagination is one
thing, to imagine your facts is another.
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.
"24 October 1907" _The Heart of Burroughs's Journals_ [1928], ed. Clara Barrus.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything
on evidence. There's no better rule.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Great Expectations_, ch. 40 [1860-1861]

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition
of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless
facts elbowing out the useful ones.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_A Study in Scarlet_, ch. 2 [1887]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
_Proper Studies_ "A Note on Dogma" [1927]

People don't ask for facts in making up their
minds. They would rather have one good,
soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
--Robert Keith Leavitt (1895—1967)
American advertising copywriter and author.
_Voyages and Discoveries_ [1939]

I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
"Where? What?" and turn away.
--Christina Rossetti [pseud. Ellen Alleyne] (1830—1894)
English poet.
_A Sketch_, st. 3

Wooden-headedness consists in assessing a situation in terms
of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any
contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing
oneself to be confused by the facts.
--Barbara Tuchman {nθe Wertheim} (1912—1989)
American historian and author.
"An Inquiry into the Persistence of Unwisdom
in Government" in _Esquire_ [1980].

Get your facts first, and then you can
distort them as much as you please.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Attributed in _The Judζans 1897-1899_ [1899] "Second Annual Meeting"

Just the facts ma'am.
--Jack Webb (1920—1982)
American actor.
Signature line from his "Dragnet" television show.

We want the facts to fit our preconceptions.
When they don't, it is easier to ignore the
facts than to change the preconceptions.
--attributed to Jassamyn West (1902—1984)
American novelist and screenwriter.

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pragmatic (adj.) [prζg-'mζ-tik]
1. Realistic, relating to facts, causal relations, and action as
opposed to speculation, theory, or abstract principles.
2. A school of philosophy that claims that nothing without
real, observable manifestations is relevant to human thought.



FAIR/FAIRNESS

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see: "IMPARTIAL"
see: "OBJECTIVITY"
see: "CHARACTER" for other related links


Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: be fair
with others, but then keep after them until they're
fair with you.
--Alan Alda (b. 1936)
American actor.
Quoted in William Safire _Good Advice_ [1982].

Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated
unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes
to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair
to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards
be quite the same boy.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_Peter and Wendy_, ch. 8 "The Mermaids' Lagoon" [1911]

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do you even so to them.
--Bible
New Testament, "Matthew" 7:12

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and
all the impersonators would be dead.
--attributed to Johnny Carson (1925—2005)
American comedian and host of The Tonight Show [1962—1992].

Give credit where credit is due.
--"City Gazette and Daily Advertiser" Charleston, S.C. [14 August 1812]

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a
living asking, 'Do you want fries with that?'
--attributed to John Cleese (b. 1939)
British comedian and actor.

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Maxims and Reflections_ [1819]

The Irish are a fair people — they
never speak well of one another.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

All's fair in love and war.
--Frank Edward Smedley (1818—1864)
English novelist.
_Frank Fairlegh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil_ [1850]

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... a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
--anon.
Quoted by Alpheus Cary in a speech at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass. [7 Oct. 1824].



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FAITH

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see: "BELIEF"
see: "MIRACLES"
see: "RELIGION"
see: "TRUST"


Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an
instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine
is something you kill for: there is all the
difference in the world.
--Tony Benn (b. 1925)
British Labour politician.
In "Observer" [16 April 1989].

O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
--Bible
New Testament, "Matthew" 14:31

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who
speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant
men are sure — that is all that agnosticism
means.
--Clarence Darrow (1857—1938)
American lawyer.
Speech at the trial of John Thomas Scopes [15 July 1925].

Women suffer more from disappointment than men,
because they have more of faith and are naturally
more credulous.
--Marguerite de Valois (1553—1615)
Queen of France and Navarre.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 108 [1886].

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see.
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
--Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.
_Poems_ [Second Series 1891]
"Faith Is a Fine Invention"

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with
its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his
own heart and his own imagination.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Speech [25 November 1864].

I carry my own church about under my own hat, said I.
Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_The Stark Munro Letters_ [1894]

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You desire to know something of my religion. It is the first time I have been
questioned upon it. But I cannot take your curiosity amiss, and shall endeavor
in a few words to gratify it. Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator
of the universe. That he governs by his providence. That he ought to be
worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing good
to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with
justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the
fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in
whatever sect I meet with them.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think
his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world
ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting
changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts
as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never
studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon
an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however,
in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequences, as probably it
has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially
as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the
unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his
displeasure.

--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
Letter to Ezra Stiles [9 March 1790], in _The Works of
Benjamin Franklin_ [1904], ch.12, edited by John Bigelow.

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Learning takes us through many states of life,
but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and
temptation. Then faith alone saves.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
_Young India_ [22 January 1925]

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never
be reached by the caravan of thinking.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are
complementaries. One who never doubts
will never truly believe.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Reflections_ [1974], # 291


I hold that it is permissible for each one of us
to die for his faith, but not to kill for his faith.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Reflections_ [1974], # 66

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Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes
the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire
of every pain; and only faith can do it.
--Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881)
American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine."
_Arthur Bonnicastle_ [1873]

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by
an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason,
observation, and experience merits everlasting pain,
is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only
by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance
called "faith".
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator known as "The Great Agnostic."
"The Gods" in _The Free Thought Magazine_ [June 1897].

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is
simple; to have faith is harder.
--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_To the Far Blue Mountains_ [1976]

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human
being; not if he is the best and wisest in the whole
world. There are lots of nice things you can do
with sand, but do not try building a house on it.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Mere Christianity_, bk. 4, ch. 7 [1952]

Every sect, as far as reason will help them, gladly use it; when it
fails them, they cry out it is a matter of faith, and above reason.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
Attributed in _The Lady's Book_ [May 1831].

There is no faith which has never yet been
broken except that of a truly faithful dog.
--Konrad Lorenz (1903—1989)
Austrian zoologist.
_King Solomon's Ring_ [1949]

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This supposed ability to sidestep, to forgo, ritual comes from a
mistaken belief in one's own powers and a misapprehension of
personal grace. It is misplaced and it is sad, like the viewer at
a magic show who confides, 'You know, he really didn't make
that duck disappear.'

Now of course the magician didn't make that duck disappear. What
he did was something of much greater worth — he gave a moment
of joy and astonishment to some who were delighted by it.

In suspending their disbelief — in suspending their reason, if you
will — for a moment, the viewers were rewarded. They committed
an act of faith, or of submission. And like those who rise refreshed
from prayers, their prayers were answered. For the purpose of the
prayer was not, finally, to bring about intercession in the material
world, but to lay down, for the time of the prayer, one's confusion
and rage and sorrow at one's own powerlessness.

--David Mamet (b. 1947)
American playwright and screenwriter.
_Three Uses of the Knife_ [1998]

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical
belief in the occurence of the improbable.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Prejudices: Third Series_, ch. 14 [1922]

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
--Wilson Mizner (1876—1933)
American playwright.
Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan _The Fabulous Wilson Mizner_ [1935].

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody
of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of
it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now;
I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old
clay tenement into a house that is immortal — a body
that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body
fashioned like unto His own glorious body.
--Dwight Lyman Moody (1837—1899)
American evangelist and publisher.
Quoted in "The Outlook" [11 August 1900].

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"Enoch Arden" [1864]

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard,
Master Harry — every man of every nation
has done that — 'tis the living up to it that
is difficult.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863)
English novelist.
_The History of Henry Esmond_, bk. I, ch. 7 [1852]

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 12 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

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Earl Weaver (b. 1930)
American baseball player and manager.

Outfielder and born-again Christian Pat Kelly
once called out to Weaver, 'You've got to walk
with the Lord, Skip!' 'Hell,' replied Weaver, 'I'd
rather you walked with bases loaded.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.
--Edward Young (1683—1765)
English poet.
_The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts_, "Night VIII" [1742-1745]

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I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine.
I believe in love, even when I don't feel it.
I believe in God, even when He is silent.
--Inscription on the wall of a cellar in Cologne
where some Jews remained hidden for the entire
duration of World War II.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have
it you can't understand it. And if you do, no
explanation is necessary.
--Kira Nerys
(fictional chacter in "Star Trek")

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apostasy (noun)
The renunciation of a religious or political belief or allegiance.



FAITHFULNESS

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see: "LOYALTY"
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links


I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.
"As I Walked Out One Evening" [1940]

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable
than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the
most sacred excellences and endowments of
the human mind.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
Attributed in Watson Adams
_The Rule of Life; Or a Collection of Select Moral Sentences_, p. 157 [1834].

I meant what I said
And I said what I meant . . .
An elephant's faithful
One hundred per cent!
--Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904—1991)
American writer and illustrator of children's books.
_Horton Hatches the Egg_ [1940]

[Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), speaking to Diana Scott (Julie Christie):]
Your idea of fidelity is not having more
than one man in bed at the same time.
--"Darling" [1965 film]
Screenplay by Frederic Raphael.

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.
--Thomas Moore (1779—1852)
Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician.
"Believe me, if all those endearing young charms" [1807]

But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
--Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552—1618)
English explorer and courtier.
"Walsinghame"

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
"Agamemnon" CCLXXXVII

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Much Ado About Nothing_, II, iii [1598—1599]



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FALL

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Photograph: Autumn in Pennsylvania

see: "AUTUMN"
see: "OCTOBER"
see: "NOVEMBER"
see: "NATURE" for other related links
see: "TIME" for other related links


When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flame
One hasn't got time for a waiting game;
And the days dwindle down, to a precious few:
September... November.
And these few precious days
I'll spend with you.
These precious days, I'll spend with you.
--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.
"September Song," (music by Kurt Weill)

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest
fire, in magnitude at least; but a single tree is
like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
--Hal Borland [Harold Glen] (1900—1978)
American author.
_Sundial of the Seasons_ [1964], "Autumn in Your Hand"

Fall is still the saddest part of the year for me. It's because
the leaves are turning, and if the leaves are turning, we're
getting ready to play Longview or Tyler.
--Y.A. Tittle (b. 1926)
American professional football player.
At age 80; quoted in _Smithsonian_ [February 2007].

They rustle, they brustle, they crackle, and if you
can crush beech nuts under foot at the same time,
so much the better. But beech nuts aren't essential.
The essential is that you should tramp through very
dry, very crisp, brown leaves — a thick drift of them
in the Autumn woods, shuffling through them, kicking
them up.
--Vita Sackville-West (1892—1962)
English writer and landscape gardener.
On BBC Radio _Personal Pleasures_ [1950].



FAME

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see: "APPLAUSE"
see: "HEROES"
see: "POPULARITY"
see: "PUBLICITY"
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links


Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our
nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear
of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some
notorious weaknesses and infirmities.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
_The Spectator_ No. 256 [1711—1712]

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work;
I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935)
American actor, screenwriter, and director.
Quoted in Eric Lax _Woody Allen and His Comedy_ [1975]

What price glory?
--Maxwell Anderson (1888—1959)
American Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright.
Title of play [1924] with Lawrence Stallings.

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act,
but a habit.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
"Nicomachean Ethics"

It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for
writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that
time I was too famous.
--Robert Benchley (1889—1945)
American humorist and newspaper columnist.
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [September 1949].

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused.
Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come
dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.
We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply
seem great because they are famous but who are famous
because they are great. We come closer and closer to
degrading all fame into notoriety.
--Daniel J. Boorstin (1914—2004)
American historian.
_The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America_ [1961],
ch. 2 "From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-Event"

Youth will be served, every dog has his
day, and mine has been a fine one.
--George (Henry) Borrow (1803—1881)
English traveler, linguist, and prose writer.
_Lavengro_, ch. 92 [1851]

A few words upon a tombstone, and the
truth of those not to be depended on.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.
_Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_ [1862]

I guess it's the physical and cultural remoteness of
South Dakota that compels everyone to memorize
almost every South Dakotan who has left the state
and received some recognition. As a child I would
pour over magazines and newspapers, looking for
some sign that the rest of the world knew we
existed.
--Tom Brokaw (b. 1940)
American television journalist.
Quoted in John Milton _South Dakota: A Bicentennial History_ [1977].

When you can do the common things
of life in an uncommon way, you will
command the attention of the world.
--George Washington Carver (1864—1943)
American agricultural chemist and agronomist.
In Raleigh Howard Merritt _From Captivity to Fame:
Or, The Life of George Washington Carver_, p. 58 [1929].

I don't care what you say about me, as long as
you say *something* about me, and as long as
you spell my name right.
--George M. Cohan (1878—1942)
American songwriter, dramatist, and producer.
In John McCabe, _George M. Cohan:
The Man Who Owned Broadway_, ch. 13 [1973].

Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
_The Task_, bk. vi [1785]

Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate.
--Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.
"Fame is a Fickle Food" [pub. 1914]

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany
will claim me as a German and France will declare that I
am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue,
France will say I am a German and Germany will declare
that I am a Jew.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
Speech, French Philosophical Society, Paris [6 April 1922].

If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you'e dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [May 1738]

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [1751]

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches
take wings, those who cheer today will curse
tomorrow; only one thing endures — character.
--Horace Greeley (1811—1872)
American newspaper editor.
Attributed in John Barnett Donaldson _The Two Talents, with
Other Papers, Sermons, Leaders_ [1900] "Through Thorns to a Throne".

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in
the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than
dust, straw, and feathers.
--Augustus William Hare (1792—1834)
British essayist.
In _The Quarterly Review_ V. LIX, p. 38 [July & October 1837].

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday
out of our recollection; and will, in turn, by
supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American author, essayist, and travel book writer.
_The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent_ [1819—1820] "Westminster Abbey"

Fourteen heart attacks and he had
to die in my week. In MY week.
--Janis Joplin (1943—1970)
American singer.
_New Music Express_ [12 April 1969]
(Said when ex-President Eisenhower's
death prevented her photograph from
appearing on the cover of "Newsweek.")

One of the reasons that so many people who achieve
fame and fortune don't find happiness is because,
almost by definition, if you reach that high estate
you are going to find yourself surrounded by the
lowest hangers-on in the world. It is not that you
get cut off from the real people; you just get cut
off from the good people. And pretty soon, if you
don't watch out, you can start to turn into a creep
yourself.
--Billie Jean King (b. 1943)
American professional tennis player.
_Billie Jean_ [1982]

The main advantage of being famous is that when
you bore people at dinner parties they think it is
their fault.
--attributed to Henry Alfred Kissinger (b. 1923)
German-born American diplomat.

The best fame is a writer's fame: it's enough
to get a table at a good restaurant, but not
enough that you get interrupted when you
eat.
--Fran Lebowitz (b. 1946)
American humorist.
In "Observer" [30 May 1993].

[Evaluating The Beatles:]
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first —
rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
--John Lennon (1940—1980)
English pop singer and songwriter.
Interview in "Evening Standard" [4 March 1966].

None despise fame more heartily than
those who have no possible claim to it.
--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet.
In Louis Klopsch
_Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ p. 89 [1896].

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
"Epilogue to the _Satires_" (dialogue I, l. 135, written in 1738)

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Carl Reiner opines on age and fame...

I think you have to be 80 to be called
a legend. I directed George Burns in
'Oh, God' and I remember thinking of
him as a legend and he was 80. Somebody
just told me in June I have to go to UCLA
to get an Icon award, so I guess you have
to be 84 to be an icon. I'm a legend now
and in June I'll be a legend-icon hyphenate.

... When you're a legend you try not to
walk around with stains on your pants
and on your tie, an icon has to have a
slight aura. You don't see the aura but
you feel it. People say, 'Oh quiet. Here
comes an icon.'

Sometimes I realize I'm winding down.
But it's meant to be this way. You know
there are people talking about longevity,
about people living to be 100, 200, about
how there's a way to rejuvenate — and
I'm thinking, 'Who the hell would want
these people around.' I'm just imagining
people saying: 'Oy, are we going to get
that 200-year-old man in here today?
He's a bore. He's always talking about
the Civil War.'

--Carl Reiner (b. 1922)
American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian.
Interview in "Wall Street Journal" [15 February 2006].

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In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
thrust upon them.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Twelfth-Night_, II, v [1601—1602]

Martyrdom. . . the only way in which a man
can become famous without ability.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner
of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
_The Devil's Disciple_ [1901]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes,
Desirous still, still impotent to rise.
--William Shenstone (1714—1763)
English poet.
_The Judgement of Hercules_ l. 436

Censure is the tax a man pays
to the public for being eminent.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [October 1706]

Fortune favors the brave.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_bk. 10, l. 284 [c. 29-19 B.C.]


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