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GIVING --- GIVING UP
GLASS HOUSES
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GHOSTS

see: "SUPERNATURAL"


A house is never still in darkness to those who
listen intently. ... Ghosts were created when
the first man woke in the night.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_The Little Minister_, ch. 22 [1891]

[On the security of a "safe-house":]
Anybody comes near we check 'em clip and clean
'fore they get to the front door. It would take a ghost
with anorexia to get in here.
--Jeffrey Deaver (b. 1950)
American mystery writer.
_The Coffin Dancer_, ch. 14 [1998]

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'Glendower.' I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

'Hotspur.' Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV_, III, i [1597]

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It's hard not to believe in ghosts when you are one. I hanged myself
in a fit of truculence — stronger than pique, but not so dignified as
despair — and regretted it before the thing was well begun. The
instant I kicked the chair away I wanted it back, but gravity was
turning my former wish to its present command; the chair would
not right itself from where it lay on the floor, and my 193 pounds
would not cease to urge downward from the rope thick around
my neck.

--Donald E. Westlake (1933—2008)
American mystery writer who won the Edgar Award three times.
Opening paragraph from the short story "This is Death".

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Ghosts can walk through walls; how
come they don't fall through the floor?
--attributed to Steven Wright (b. 1955)
American writer and actor.

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apparition [ap-uh-RISH-uhn], noun:
1. A ghost; a specter; a phantom.
2. The thing appearing; the sudden or unexpected
appearance of something or somebody.

wraith [RAYTH], noun:
1. An apparition of a living person seen before
death; hence, an apparition; a specter; a ghost.
2. A shadowy or insubstantial form, appearance,
or representation of something.



GIFTS

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see: "BIRTHDAYS"
see: "CHRISTMAS"
see: "GENEROSITY"
see: "PRESENTS"
see: "REWARD"
see: "SANTA CLAUS"
see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links
see: "KINDNESS" for other related links


The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example; to a father,
deference; to your mother, conduct that will make
her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men,
charity.
--Clara Lucas Balfour [nιe Liddell] (1808—1878)
English novelist and temperance activist.
_Sunbeams for All Seasons: Counsels, Cautions, and Precepts_ [1861 ed.]

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to
the right person at the right time and at the right
place, and when we expect nothing in return.
--The Bhagavad Gita (c. 5th c BC. — 2nd c AD.)
Hindu sacred text, 17:20

Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone
is the friend of a man who gives gifts.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 19:6 NIV

The former United States President George H. W. Bush
recalls a visit to Buckingham Palace in 1989 when he
noticed an unusual three-legged silver dish which
intrigued him. 'What is that?', I asked Her Majesty.
She replied, 'I don't know. You gave it to me.'
--In Brian Hoey _Her Majesty: Fifty Regal Years_ [2001].

Liberty, Sancho, my friend, is one of the most precious gifts that
Heaven has bestowed on mankind; all the treasures that the earth
contains in its bosom or the ocean within its depths cannot be
compared with it. For liberty, as well as for honor, man ought to
risk even his life, and he should reckon captivity the greatest evil
life can bring.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha", bk. 2, part 14 [1615]

The only gift is a portion of thyself. Therefore the poet brings
his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner,
a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the
girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Essays_, Second Series [1844] "Gifts"

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]

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Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou
ceasest to give such will cease to love.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Attributed in _Day's Collacon:
An Encyclopaedia Of Prose Quotations_, p. 305 [1884].


Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh
nothing; and that is a way of giving to thyself.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Quoted in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ p. 109 [1896].

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Make the least ado about your greatest gifts. Be
content to act, and leave the talking to others.
--Baltasar Graciαn (1601—1658)
Spanish Jesuit philosopher.
_The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647], as quoted
by Larry Chang in _Wisdom for the Soul_ [2006].

When a woman keeps score, no matter how big or small
a gift of love is, it scores one point; each gift has equal
value. ... A man, however, thinks he scores one point
for a small gift and thirty points for a big gift.
--John Gray (b. 1951)
American author.
_Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus_ [1992]

He was one of those men who possess almost every
gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
--Charles Kingsley (1819—1875)
English writer and clergyman.
_Westward Ho!_ [1855]

The manner of giving shows the character
of the giver more than the gift itself.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 194 [1908 ed.].

To give without any reward, or any notice,
has a special quality of its own.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906—2001)
American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh.
_The Flower And The Nettle_ [1976]

Kissing your hand may make you feel
very, very good, but a diamond and
sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
--Anita Loos (1893—1981)
American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter.
_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ [1925]

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
--Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (39—65)
Roman poet and republican patriot.
_The Civil War_, Book V, Line 528

Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
_Ars amatoria_ "The Art of Love"

Life is the first gift, love is the second,
and understanding the third.
--Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
American poet and novelist.
Attributed; probably in her novel _Gone To Soldiers_ [1987].

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Verse 1

The French are glad to die for love,
They delight in fighting duels.
But I prefer a man who lives,
And gives expensive jewels.

Refrain 1

A kiss on the hand may be quite Continental,
But diamonds are a girl's best friend.
A kiss may be grand,
But it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the Automat.
Men grow cold
As girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end.
But square-cut or pear-shape,
These rocks don't lose their shape,
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Verse 2

A well-conducted rendezvous
Makes a maiden's heart beat quicker,
But when the rendezvous is through,
These stones still keep their flicker.

Refrain 2

There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer,
But diamonds are a girl's best friend.
There may come a time
When a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice,
But get that "ice" or else no dice.
He's your guy
When stocks are high,
But beware when they start to descend.
It's then that those louses
Go back to their spouses,
Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

--Leo Robin (1900—1984)
American songwriter.
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" [1949 song, music by Jule Styne.]

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If I were given the opportunity to present a
gift to the next generation, it would be the
ability for each individual to learn to laugh
at himself.
--Charles Schulz (1922—2000)
American cartoonist.
Attributed in Anonymous, _Easy Does It_ [Hazelden Meditations, 1990].

The best gift to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful
knowledge. ... Nothing becomes truly "one's own"
except on the basis of some genuine effort or sacrifice.
... The gift of material goods makes people dependent,
but the gift of knowledge makes them free.
--E.F. Schumacher (1911—1977)
German-born British economist.
Referring to aid to people in poor countries in
_Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered_ [1973].

What madness is it for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir,
and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will
be proportioned to what you leave him.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 232 [15th ed. 1894].

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind,
More than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Two Gentlemen of Verona_, III, i [1590—1591]

Favors and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal
to friendship; for our pride will ever prompt us to lower
the value of the gift by diminishing that of the donor.
--Horace Smith (1779—1849)
English poet and novelist.
_The Tin Trumpet_ [1836]

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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
[I fear the Greeks, especially when they offer gifts].
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_ bk. 2, l. 49

& see:

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
--"Statesville Landmark" (North Carolina) [8 June 1893]

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness
rather than in its value.
--Charles Dudley Warner (1829—1900)
American newspaperman, author, editor, and publisher.
_Backlog Studies_ [1872]

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The key to a woman's heart is [to give her]
an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.
--William Forrester (Sean Connery)
in the film _Finding Forrester_ [2000].

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lagniappe [LAN-yap], noun:
1. A small gift given with a purchase to a customer, for good measure.
2. A gratuity or tip.
3. An unexpected or indirect benefit.

potlatch [POT-lach], noun:
A ceremony at which gifts are bestowed on the guests in
a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.



GIRLS

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see: "YOUTH"
see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links


It's the good girls who keep diaries;
the bad girls never have the time.
--attributed to Tallulah Bankhead (1903—1968)
American actress.

[Egbert Sousι (W.C. Fields):]
I'm very fond of children. Girl children, around eighteen and twenty.
--"The Bank Dick" [1940 film]
Screenplay by W.C. Fields.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of
girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as
that of woman for woman.
--Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
English poet, essayist, and critic.
_Imaginary Conversations_ [1824—1853]

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Each time I see a little girl of 5 or 6 or 7
I can't resist a joyous urge to smile and say...
Thank heaven for little girls
For little girls, get bigger, every day!
Thank heaven for little girls
They grow up in the most delightful way!
Those little eyes so helpless and the appealing
One day will flash and send you crashin' through the ceilin'
Thank heaven for little girls
Thank heaven for them all
No matter where, no matter who
Without them, what would little boys do?

--"Thank Heaven For Little Girls"
written by Lerner & Loewe for the 1958 film "Gigi"
(Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986) American playwright and lyricist
Frederic Loewe (1901—1988) Austrian-American composer)

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A young lady is a female child who
has just done something dreadful.
--Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (b. 1938)
American newspaper columnist.
_Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior_ [2005]

I never expected to see the day when girls
would get sunburned in the places they
do today.
--Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.
Quoted in P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton
_Bring on the Girls; The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy_ [1953].

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gamine [gam-EEN; GAM-een], noun:
1. A girl who wanders about the streets; an urchin.
2. A playfully mischievous girl or young woman.

ingenue [AN-zhuh-noo], noun:
1. A naive girl or young woman.
2. An actress playing such a person; also: the stage role of an ingenue.



GIVING

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see: "KINDNESS" for other related links


From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.
--Arthur Ashe (1943—1993)
American tennis player and the first black
winner of a major men's single championship.
_Days of Grace_ [1993]

Men in no way approach so nearly to
the gods as in doing good to men.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.
_Oratio Pro Quinto Ligario_, XII

It is in giving that we receive.
--Francis, St, of Assisi (1181—1226)
Italian monk.
"The Prayer of St. Francis," attributed.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_The Prophet_ [1923]

When a woman keeps score, no matter how big or small
a gift of love is, it scores one point; each gift has equal
value. ... A man, however, thinks he scores one point
for a small gift and thirty points for a big gift.
--John Gray (b. 1951)
American author.
_Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus_ [1992]

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause
to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it,
to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to
ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher.
1884 Memorial Day Address, Keene, New Hampshire.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim # 110

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action
by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
Quoted in "The Athenaeum" (London) [4 January 1834].

Give what you have. To some one, it
may be better than you dare think.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
Attributed in "Our Paper" (Concord Junction, Mass.) [23 October 1915].

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest;
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil an not to seek for rest;
To labor and not to ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
--St. Ignatius Loyola (1491—1556)
Spanish theologian.
"Prayer for Generosity" [1548]

For mortal to aid mortal — this is god;
and this is the road to eternal glory.
--Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (23—79)
Roman statesman and scholar.
_Natural History_ [77—79]

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it
is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful
man I will oblige a great many that are not
so.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Moral Essays_, "Of Benefits"

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he
may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is
given instead of thanks.
--Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus]
(c.55—c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian.
_Annales_ IV, 18

If you pick up a starving dog and make him
prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the
principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar", ch. 16

(Eqnno ne credite, Teucri.
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.)
Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks
even when they bring gifts.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_ [c. 29-19 B.C.]



GIVING UP

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see: "DEFEAT"
see: "LOSING"
see: "SURRENDER"
see: "FAILURE" for other related links


The lobster, when left high and dry among the rocks, has not
sense and energy enough to work his way back to the sea, but
waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains
where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable
him to reach the waves, which are perhaps tossing and tumbling
within a yard of him. There is a tide in human affairs that casts
men into "tight places", and leave them there, like stranded
lobsters. If they choose to lie where the breakers have flung
them, expecting some grand billow to take them on its big
shoulders, and carry them to small water, the chances are
that their hopes will never be realized.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
Quoted in Rev. Elon Foster
_New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations_, p. 410 [1870].

It ain't over 'til it's over.
--Yogi Berra (b. 1925)
American baseball player and manager; elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972.
Quoted in "Washington Post" [26 September 1977].

One of the first businesses of a sensible man
is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off
fighting at once.
--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907]

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Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never,
never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty —
never give in, except to convictions of honor and
good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to
the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
Speech at Harrow School [29 October 1941].


If you're going through hell, keep going.
--attributed to Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

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Fight one more round. When your arms are so
tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come
on guard, fight one more round. When your nose
is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are
so tired that you wish your opponent would crack
you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight
one more round remembering that the man who
always fights one more round is never whipped.
--James (Gentleman Jim) Corbett (1866—1933)
American boxer; heavyweight champion [1892—1897].
Quoted in "The Financial World" [1938].

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen
times, you don't want to set him down as a failure —
unless he takes failing too easy. No man's a failure till
he's dead or loses his courage, and that's the same
thing.
--John Graham
Letter to his son Pierrepont [4 October 189-]
In George Lorimer _Old Gorgon Graham - More
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son_ [1904].

Fall seven times, get up eight.
--Japanese proverb.

Being defeated is only a temporary condition;
giving up is what makes it permanent.
--Marilyn vos Savant (b. 1946)
American magazine columnist, author, and lecturer.
Quoted in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham
_And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. 53 [2003].

You cannot run away from a weakness; you
must some time fight it out or perish; and
if that be so, why not now, and where you
stand.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_The Amateur Emigrant_ [1879—1880, published 1895]

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not hold
on a moment longer, *never give up then* — for that
is just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
[Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.]
_Old Town Folks_, ch. XXXIX [1869] "Last Days in Cloudland"

Nothing ventured, nothing gained — but if everything is
ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture
elsewhere.
--attributed to Peter Wastholm



GLASS HOUSES

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see: "CRITICISM"
see: "HYPOCRISY"
see: "MINDING OWN BUSINESS"


Set thine house in order.
--Bible
"The Second Book of Kings" 20:1

The pot calls the kettle black.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
"Don Quixote de la Mancha", pt. II, bk. IV, ch. 38 [1615]

He that scattereth thorns must not go barefoot.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended
much to lessen both my admiration and my contempt
of others.
--Joseph Priestley (1733—1804)
English clergyman, political theorist, and scientist.
In Isaac Disraeli _Curiosities of Literature_, p. 422 [1859].

Sweep first before your own door, before you
sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.
--Swedish Proverb



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GLASSES

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see: "THE BODY"


Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"News Item" in _Enough Rope_ [1927].

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't
need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
--Henny Youngman (1906—1998)
English-born American stand-up comedian.
Quoted in Robert Byrne _1911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said_ [1988].

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Never hit a man with glasses.
Hit him with a baseball bat.
--anon.


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