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 . . . FRUGAL see: "MONEY" for related links It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. III, ch. 9 [1605] He who is frugal is the richest of men, and the miser is the poorest. --Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794) French playwright and conversationalist. _Maxims and Thoughts_ [1796], tr. W.S. Merwin [1984] Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow. --Calvin Coolidge (1872—1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923—1929]. "Third Annual Message to Congress" [8 December 1925] Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men for they would do you,' That's the true business precept. --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. _Martin Chuzzlewit_, ch. 11 [1844] Without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Quoted in Rev. James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 659 [1893 ed.]. Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Epistulae morales ad Lucilium_ [c. 65 A.D.] Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. --Francis Wayland, D.D. (1796—1865) Baptist minister, President of Brown University, professor of moral philosophy, and author. In "The Saturday Magazine" [1 September 1838]. ----- parsimonious [par-suh-MOH-nee-uhs], adjective: Sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess.   FUN . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_, canto II, st. 178 [1819] [Of a starlet:] There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. --Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (1908—1989) American actress. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell _The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes_ [1973]. When lovely woman stoops to folly The evening can be awfully jolly. --Mary Demetriadis Quoted in Brett (ed.) _The Faber Book of Parodies_, p. 174 [1984]. To a young heart everything is fun. --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. Quoted in Gertrude Weld Arnold _A Mother's List of Books for Children_ p. 179 [1910, 2nd ed.]. 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. "On Books and Reading" in _The London Magazine_ [July 1822]. Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun! --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977) American film comedian. Quoted in Stefan Kanfer _Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx_ [2000]. ----- 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. roister [ROY-stur], intransitive verb: 1. To engage in boisterous merrymaking; to revel; to carouse. 2. To bluster; to swagger. . . see: "DEATH" for related links Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. --Hilaire Belloc (1870—1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Epitaph on the Politician Himself" If you don't go to other men's funerals ... they won't go to yours. --Clarence Day (1874—1935) American author. _Life With Father_ "Father Plans to Get Out" [1935] 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]. They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. --Garrison Keillor (b. 1942) American writer and radio host. _Lake Wobegon Days_ [1985] Groans, and convulsions, and discolour'd faces, Friends weeping round us, blocks and obsequies, Make it a dreadful thing; the pomp of death Is far more terrible than death itself. --Nathaniel Lee (c.1653—1692) English dramatist. Quoted in Abraham Mills _The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain_ [1858]. 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.] ^ I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral. --Louis Mountbatten (1900—1979) British war hero. In Richard Hough _Mountbatten_ [1980]. - I've noticed that when a fellow dies, no matter what he's been— A saintly chap or one whose life's been deeply steeped in sin— His friends forget the bitter words they spoke but yesterday, And try to find a multitude of pretty things to say. I fancy when I go to rest some-one will bring to light Some kindly word or goodly act long buried out of sight; But if it's all the same to you, just give to me, instead The bouquets while I'm living and the knocking when I'm dead. --Louis Edwin Thayer (1878—1956) "Of Post-Mortem Praises," st. 1 & 2, in "Masonic Voice Review" [Chicago, Ill., January 1909]. - Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] ch. 7 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Attributed in Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (ed.) _Everyone's Mark Twain_ [1972]. - ^ 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.] ^ Funerals are pretty compared to death. --Tennessee Williams [Thomas Lanier Williams] (1911—1983) American dramatist. "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947] ^ Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924) American politician; president of Princeton University [1902-10], President of the United States [1913-21]. One afternoon during his time as governor of New Jersey, Wilson received news of the sudden death of a personal friend, a New Jersey senator. He was still recovering from the shock when the telephone rang again. It was a prominent New Jersey politician. 'Governor,' he said, 'I would like to take the senator's place.' Wilson replied, 'It's perfectly agreeable to me if it's agreeable to the undertaker.' --_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?" -- What did the coffin salesman say to the reluctant customer? We also have a nice selection of urns if you would like to think outside of the box. -- 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  FUTILITY . . see: "CAN'T WIN" see: "USELESS" see: "LIFE" The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. --Willa Silbert Cather (1873—1947) American novelist. _One of Ours_, bk. II, ch. v [1922] To tilt against windmills. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. "Don Quixote de la Mancha", pt. 2, ch. 20 [1615] 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_, ch. 6 [1836] - 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 The answer is blowing in the wind. --Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941) American singer and songwriter. ["Blowin' in the Wind" 1962 song, recorded in 1963 by Peter, Paul, & Mary.] - Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. --Robert Heinlein (1907—1988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] "Prelude II" Did you ever try to talk sense to a maniac? [...] I did once. [...] Luckily for me, the bottle he hit me with was pretty flimsy. --"Mr. Bahu", in Aldous Huxley's _Island_ [1962]. 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), # 6 [7 April 1750] 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 & Paul McCartney (b. 1942) English pop singer and songwriter. "Nowhere Man" [1966 song] 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]. Attributed in Charles Willis Thompson _The Fiery Epoch, 1830-1877_ [1931]. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. --James Russell Lowell (1819—1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "Democracy", Address at Town Hall, Birmingham, England [6 October 1884]. 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] ----- 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.  FUTURE . . see: "TIME" for related links Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) 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 (b. 1924) American Republican statesman and President [1989—1993]. In "New York Times" [7 March 1991]. Certain signs precede certain events. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _De divinatione_ (On Divination) I. 52. [44 BC] . . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. Quoted in _Chambers's Encyclopædia_ V. VIII p. 592 [1876 rev. ed.]. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. --Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880]. _Henrietta Temple_, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1837] The greatest gift ... is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whether it offers little or much, life is now—this day—this hour. --Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871—1938) American writer. _Viva Mexico_, ch. VII [1912] 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 (b. 1930) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002], ch. 20 "Taking Stock" This is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. --Graham Greene (1904—1991) English novelist. _The Power and the Glory_ [1940] What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Henry Stanley Haskins (1875—1957) _Meditations in Wall Street_ [published anonymously in 1940] 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 (1736—1799) American statesman, instrumental in the adoption of The Bill of Rights. Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Virginia [23 March 1775]. 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 (b. 1917) Austrian-born British educator, historian, and author. Closing words, _The Age of Empire: 1875-1914_ [1987]. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. _Carmina_ I. 9. 13. May the saddest day of your future be no worse Than the happiest day of your past. --Irish toast I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Letter to John Adams [1 August 1816]. The future is purchased by the present. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 1750—1752), #178 [30 November 1751] 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. Quoted in "Science News Letter" [1936]. What its children become, that will the community become. --Suzanne LaFollette (1893—1983) Ameican editor and author. _Concerning Women_ [1926] "Woman and Marriage" History teaches everything, even the future. --Alphonse de Lamartine (1790—1869) French poet, novelist, and statesman. _History Of The French Revolution Of 1848_ [1854] 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]. [Concerning a group of friends in their late teens:] The future held little interest for us back then. [. . . ] We were arrogant enough to ignore the future. And young enough to be certain that the present was something that would never change. --Barry Levinson (b. 1942) American screenwriter and film director. _Sixty-Six_, ch. 2 [2003] The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades. --Pat MacDonald (b. 1952) American musician and songwriter. [Title of 1986 song] Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who have been, and ever will be, animated by the same passions, and thus they must necessarily have the same results. --Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. _Discourses On The First Ten Books Of Livy_, bk. III, ch. XLIII [c. 1517] in _The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings of Niccolo Machiavelli_ tr. from the Italian, by Christian E. Detmold [4 vols., J. R. Osgood, Boston 1882]. Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 'twere but a hair's-breadth of time: as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180) Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, III, 10 We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. --attributed to H. (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan (1911—1980) Canadian professor and author. The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. --John Milton (1608—1674) English poet. _Paradise Regained_, bk. IV, l. 220 [1671] 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] The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Quoted in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ p. 103 [1896]. '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." [1850] The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. --James Thurber (1894—1961) American humorist and cartoonist. Letter to Marianna Brown, in Helen Thurber & Edward Weeks (eds.) _Selected Letters of James Thurber_ [1981]. ----- portend [por-TEND], verb: To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshadow; to bode. end page | FACE - FAME | FAILURE | FAMILIARITY - FANTASY | FARMING - FATHERS | FAULT/FAULTS - FEELINGS | FEMINISTS - FIFTIES (THE) | FIFTY - FLAG | FLATTERY - FOLLOWERS | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 1 (A-O) | FOOD & DRINK - PAGE 2 (P-Z) | FOOLS / FOOLISH | FOOTBALL - FORESIGHT | FOREST - FRAUDS | FREE - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT | FREEDOM | FREUD - FRIENDS | FRUGAL - FUTURE | | 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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