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. . . FRUGAL see "MONEY" for related links 'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615] Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. ----- parsimonious [par-suh-MOH-nee-uhs], adjective: Sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess. parsimony (noun) parsimoniously (adverb)   FUN . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links When lovely women stoops to folly The evening can be awfully jolly. --Mary Demetriadis He is not frivolous enough for me; if he were soaked in boiling water . . . I do not suppose a single drop of fun would ooze out. --Emily Eden to Lord Clarendon [1860] on Gladstone, in Herbert Maxwell _Life of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon_ v. 2 [1913] p. 224. If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. --Herodotus (484—c.425 BC) Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world. _The Histories of Herodotus_ bk. II, ch. 173 Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims [1678], Maxim 209 There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. --Charles Lamb (1775—1834) English essayist. ----- cavort [kuh-VORT], intransitive verb: 1. To bound or prance about. 2. To have lively or boisterous fun; to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner. frolic (verb) ['frah-lik] To make merry, to gambol, to romp or caper about worry-free. gadabout [GAD-uh-bout], noun: Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity. Ex.: "Teddy was a bon vivant and gadabout." --Nadine Brozan, "Born in a Trunk: The Story of the Hornes," _New York Times_ [20 June 1986] roister [ROY-stur], intransitive verb: 1. To engage in boisterous merrymaking; to revel; to carouse. 2. To bluster; to swagger. Ex.: Back in our expatriate days, we roistering provincials, slap-happy to be in Paris, drunk on the beauty of our surroundings, were fearful of retiring to our Left Bank hotel rooms lest we wake up back home, retrieved by parents who would remind us of how much they had invested in our educations, and how it was time for us to put our shoulders to the wheel. --Mordecai Richler, _Barney's Version_ . . see "DEATH" for related links I bet you, Ziggie, a hundred bucks that he ain't here. --Charles Dillingham (1868—1934) American theatrical director and producer. Whispered to Florenz Ziegfield as they carried Harry Houdini's casket as pall-bearers. Minister: We are gathered here today to honor the memory of Frederick P. Zoltin, who lived to the age of 89 years and never had a clue. --John Gumpertz Cartoon caption, San Francisco Sunday "Examiner and Chronicle" [28 June 1992]. Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case? --Peter Lorre [Ladislav (László) Löwenstein] (1904—1964) Hungarian-born American motion-picture actor. (To Vincent Price while at Bela Lugosi's funeral [1956].) ^ Louis B. Mayer (1885—1957) American film producer. Mayer's funeral was attended by huge crowds, a fact that could not in his case be attributed to universal popularity. Samuel Goldwyn explained: 'The reason so many people showed up for his funeral was because they wanted to make sure he was dead.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^ Voltaire (1694—1778) French philosopher, writer, and wit. At the funeral of a certain nobleman, Voltaire declared, 'He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend — provided, of course, that he really is dead.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ -- Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, "How old was your husband?" "Ninety-eight," she replied. "Two years older than me." "So you're ninety-six," the undertaker commented. She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?" -- TOPICAL Farmers in Jiangsu, China, believe the more people at a funeral, the more luck the deceased's family will have. So some families are resorting to hiring entire troupes of entertainers including singers, nude women dancing with snakes and people bathing in public to attract mourners. --news blurb [31 August 2006] ----- catafalque (noun) ['kæ-tê-falk] A decorated or elaborated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a ceremonial funeral. It sometimes involves a canopy and other structures. sepulcher [SEP-uhl-kuhr], noun: a burial place; tomb threnody (noun) A poem or song of mourning or lamentation. Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, lament . . see "HUMOR" for related links Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935) American humorist and actor. _The Illiterate Digest_ [1924]  FUTILITY . . see: "USELESS" see "LIFE" for other related links All hope abandon, ye who enter here. --Dante Alighieri (1265—1321) Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher. _La dinina commedia_ (The Divine Comedy) [c. 1310—1321] You will be damned if you do—and you will be damned if you don't. --Lorenzo Dow (1777—1834) American Methodist minister. _Reflections on the Love of God_ [1836], Ch. 6 - How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man How many seas must the white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they are forever banned The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist Before it washed to the sea Yes, and how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind "Blowin' in the Wind" --Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (1941— ) American singer and songwriter. [Song written in 1962 & recorded in 1963 by Peter, Paul, & Mary.] - He who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "The Rambler" (English journal), Number 6 [7 April 1750]. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody. --John Lennon (1940—1980) English pop singer and songwriter and --Paul McCartney (1942— ) English pop singer and songwriter, "Nowhere Man" [1966 song] 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 (1888—1953) American and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. _Lazarus Laughed_ [1927] - Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. --Source unknown. - otiose [OH-shee-ohs; OH-tee-], adjective: 1. Ineffective; futile. 2. Being at leisure; lazy; indolent; idle. 3. Of no use. Sisyphean (adj.) [si-sê-'fee-ên] Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" . . see "TIME" for related links People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. --Edmund Burke (1729—1797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect of a new world order. --George H. W. Bush (1924— ) American Republican statesman and President [1989—1993]. President [1889-1993] In "New York Times" [7 March 1991]. The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. --Winston Churchill (1874—1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955]. The future is truly unknown country — a great void, a black hole, a vacuum. We can peek a little way forward, a few steps into it, as if we were walking in dark woods on a moonless night — a few steps, but nothing more. Beyond that is an utter blank; the ultimate darkness. The future is a country in another galaxy, mysterious, remote, inaccessible to the mortals here on earth. --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930— ) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 20 "Taking Stock" p. 607 You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. --Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund] (1879—1915) Swedish-born American labor leader. "Preacher and the Slave" [1911 song] The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. --E.J. Hobsbawm (1917— ) Austrian-born British educator, historian, and author. Closing words, _The Age of Empire: 1875-1914_ [1987]. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. May the saddest day of your future be no worse Than the happiest day of your past. --Irish toast We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. --Charles F. Kettering (1876—1958) American inventor. In Robert Andrews _The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 105 [1987]. They have no sense of humor. I was worried I'd wake up in fifty years surrounded by people with clipboards. (Announcing he had ended his association with the cyronics movement, thereby abandoning his plan to have his head preserved.) --Timothy Leary (1920—1996) American psychologist. In "Daily Telegraph" [10 May 1996]. 'So you've been over to Russia?' said Bernard Beruch, and I answered very literally, 'I have been over into the future and it works.' --Lincoln Steffens (1866—1936) American journalist. In _The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens_ [1931], v. 2, p. 79, [conversation in April, 1919.] I guess — what may happen is what keeps us alive. We want to see tomorrow. --John Ernst Steinbeck (1902—1968) American novelist. Letter to Carlton Sheffield [16 October 1952] So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) English poet. "In Memoriam A.H.H." 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