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GREETINGS
GRIEF --- GROOMING
GROUPS --- GROUCHO MARX --- GROWING

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GREETINGS

see: "KINDNESS" for related links
see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for related links


Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
our coming, and look brighter when we come.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1818], canto I, st. 123

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans.
But it’s often the same message: They hope
it’s my last.
--Al Forman,
National League umpire [baseball]
"Time" [25 August 1961]

Here's a how-de-do!
--W. S. Gilbert (1836—1911)
English writer of comic and satirical verse.
_The Mikado_, act 2 [1885]

[Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, speaking:]
The Force will be with you — always.
--George Lucas (b. 1944)
American screenwriter and producer.
_Star Wars_ [1977] (screenplay)

I love a hand that meets mine own
With grasp that causes some sensation.
--Frances Sargent Osgood (1811—1850)
American poet.
"What I Love" in _A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England_ [1838].

Stanley: Dr. Livingston, I presume?
Livingstone: Yes
Stanley: I thank God, Doctor, I have been permitted to see you.
Livingstone: I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.
--Sir Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone,
conversation when Stanley found Livingstone near
Lake Tanganyika, Africa, on November 10, 1871.

Hail, emperor, those who are about to die greet you.
--Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69—c. 122)
Roman biographer and antiquarian.
_"Claudius"_ [c. 120]
(Gladiators saluting Emperor Claudius.)

The Sight of you is good for sore Eyes.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious
Conversation_ "Third Conversation" [1738]

A bore is a man who, when you
ask him how he is, tells you.
--Bert L. Taylor (1866—1921)
American journalist.
_The So-Called Human Race_ [1922]

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THINGS THAT HALLMARK CARDS DON'T SAY:

My tire was thumping.
I thought it was flat
When I looked at the tire...
I noticed your cat.
Sorry!

Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it,
She moved in with me.

How could two people as beautiful as you
Have such an ugly baby?

We have been friends for a very long time ..
What say we stop?

Congratulations on your new bundle of joy.
Did you ever find out who the father was?

Your friends and I wanted to do
something special for your birthday.
So we're having you put to sleep.

So your daughter's a hooker,
and it spoiled your day.
Look at the bright side,
it's really good pay.



GRIEF

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see: "ADVERSITY"
see: "MELANCHOLY"
see: "MISERY"
see: "PAIN"
see: "REGRET"
see: "SADNESS"
see: "SUFFERING"
see: "UNHAPPINESS"
see: "DEATH" for other related links


There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.
Quoted in Julie K. Cicero _Waking Up Alone_, p. 115 [2007].

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief:
it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
--Henri Frιdιrick Amiel (1821—1881)
Swiss critic.
_Journal Intime_ [1883]

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.
--Robert Baron (1630-1658)
English author and playwright.
"Mirza, A Tragedy" [1655]

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.
--Joseph Brodsky [Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky] (1940—1996)
Russian-born American poet and winner of the 1987
Nobel Prize for Literature.
_Less Than One_ [1986]

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him;
he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case
of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any
considerable time.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
_A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our
Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful_ [1756]

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
--Chinese proverb

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The ills I sorrow at
Not me alone
Like an arrow,
Pierce to the marrow,
Through the fat,
And past the bone.

Your grief and mine
Must intertwine
Like sea and river,
Be fused and mingle,
Diverse yet single,
Forever and forever.

Let no man be so proud
And confident,
To think he is allowed
A little tent
Pitched in a meadow
Of sun and shadow
All his little own.

Joy may be shy, unique,
Friendly to a few,
Sorrow never scorned to speak
To any who
Were false or true.

Your every grief
Like a blade
Shining and unsheathed
Must strike me down.
Of bitter aloes wreathed,
My sorrow must be laid
On your head like a crown.

--Countee Cullen (1903—1946)
American poet.
"Any Human to Another" from _The Medea and Some Poems_ [1935].

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There is no greater pain than to remember,
in our present grief, past happiness.
--Dante Alighieri (1265—1321)
Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher.
_La dinina commedia_ (The Divine Comedy) [c. 1310—1321]
"Inferno," Canto V, Lines 121-123

Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
--William Faulkner (1897—1962)
American novelist.
_The Wild Palms_ [1939]

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only
at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability
to experience happiness.
--Erich Fromm (1900—1980)
American philosopher and psychologist.
_Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics_ [1947]

What an argument in favor of social connections is the
observation that, by communicating our grief we have
less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
--Fulke Greville (1554—1628)
English philosophical poet.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 535 [1908 ed.].

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

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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]


While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.
You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement
will dissipate the remains of it.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "10 April 1776"

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness
ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger
links than common joys.
--Alphonse de Lamartine (1790—1869)
French poet, novelist, and statesman.
_Raphaλl, or Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty_ [1849]

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's
shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely
suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact
that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in
grief, but live each day thinking about living each
day in grief.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
"A Grief Observed" (1961)
Originally published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk.
(About the death of his wife, Joy, in 1960.)

He who walks through a great city to find subjects
for weeping, may, God knows, find plenty at every
corner to wring his heart; but let such a man walk
on his course, and enjoy his grief alone — we are
not of those who would accompany him. The
miseries of us poor earthdwellers gain no alleviation
from the sympathy of those who merely hunt them
out to be pathetic over them. The weeping philosopher
too often impairs his eyesight by his woe, and becomes
unable from his tears to see the remedies for the evils
which he deplores. Thus it will often be found that
the man of no tears is the truest philanthropist, as he
is the best physician who wears a cheerful face, even
in the worst of cases.
--Charles Mackay (1814—1889)
Scottish poet and newspaperman.
_Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841]

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change
and are no longer the same person.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Pensιes_ ("Thoughts") [1670]

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is
grief that develops the powers of the mind.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913-1927]

In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
--Joseph Roux (1834—1886)
French parish priest and writer.
_Meditations of a Parish Priest_; tr. from the
third French edition by Isabel F. Hapgood [1886].

No grief reaches the dead.
--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86 BC—35/34 BC)
Roman historian.
Quoted in Craufurd Tait Ramage _Great Thoughts
from Latin Authors_, p. 497 [3rd ed. 1884].

No one feels another's grief, no one understands
another's joy. People imagine they can reach one
another. In reality they only pass each other by.
--attributed to Franz Peter Schubert (1797—1828)
Austrian composer.

That grief is light which can take counsel.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
"Medea" I, 55

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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry VI_, pt. 3, II, i [1590—1591]


Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Love's Labour's Lost_, V, ii [1598]


How much better it is to weep at joy
than to joy at weeping.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Much Ado About Nothing_, I, i [1598—1599]


Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Much Ado About Nothing_, III, ii [1598—1599]


The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_, IV, iii [1606]


Grief best is pleased with grief's society.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
"A Lover's Complaint" [1609]


What's gone and what's past help,
Should be past grief.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Winter's Tale_, III, ii [First pub. 1623]

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Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which
may never come at all, or you may never live to see it?
For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most
of them shadows of your own making.
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 co-founded "The Edinburgh Review."
Quoted in _The Irish Quarterly Review_, Vol. V [1855].

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Oedipus the King_ [c. 429 B.C.], line 1184

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
[Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.]
_Little Foxes_, ch. 3 [1865]

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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
--Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.
Letter to Mlle. Roxandra Stourdza [9 September 1813].


In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up,
too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable
pool, resisting all evaporation.
--Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.
In Count de Falloux (ed.), Harriet W. Preston (trans.)
_The Writings of Madame Swetchine_, ch. 2, # CII [1869].

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I hold it true, whate'er befall,
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"In Memoriam A. H. H." [1850]
(Arthur Henry Hallam was the fiancι of Tennyson's
sister Emily and died suddenly in September 1833.)

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
--Turkish proverb

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value
of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

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In the dark immensity of night
I stood upon a hill and watched the light
Of a star,
Soundless and beautiful and far.

A scientist standing there with me
Said, 'It is not the star you see,
But a glow
That left the star light years ago.'

Men are like stars in a timeless sky:
The light of a good man's life shines high,
Golden and splendid
Long after his brief earth years are ended.

--Grace V. Watkins (1905—1993)
American poet and essayist.

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Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the
shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of
the next are brushed by shadows of the dance. A wedding-
party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door.
The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy
of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim
the mirror he beholds.
--Robert Aris Willmott (1809—1863)
English editor and author.
"Pleasures of Literature" in _The Eclectic Magazine_ [February 1852].

You can't go back home to your family —
To a young man's dream of fame and glory,
To the country cottage away from strife and conflict,
To the father you have lost,
To the old forms and systems of things,
Which seemed everlasting but are changing all the time.
--Thomas Wolfe (1900—1938)
American novelist.
_You Can't Go Home Again_ [1940]

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an
injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
--Xenophon (c.430—352 B.C.)
Athenian historian.
Attributed in Tryon Edwards
_A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 211 [1908 ed.].

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disconsolate [dis-KON-suh-lut], adjective:
1. Being beyond consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited;
hopelessly sad; filled with grief.
2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless.

dolorous [DOH-luh-ruhs], adjective:
Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.




GROOMING

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see: "THE BODY"


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George Kelly (1887—1974)
American playwright.

On his deathbed Kelly was visited by his sister
Mary's daughter, who had come to see her uncle
for the last time. As she leaned forward to kiss
him the old man whispered softly, 'My dear,
before you kiss me goodbye, fix your hair.
It's a mess.'

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

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titivate [TIT-uh-vayt], transitive & intransitive verb:
To smarten up; to spruce up.



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GROUPS

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see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links


[W]hen we renounce the self and become part of a compact whole, we not
only renounce personal advantage but are also rid of personal responsibility.
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will
go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings
of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual
independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new
freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without
shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a
mass movement.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements_ [1951]

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that
they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses
slowly, and one by one.
--Charles Mackay (1814—1889)
Scottish poet and newspaperman.
_Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841]

Insanity is something rare in individuals — but
in groups, parties, and nations, it is the rule.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1885-1886], pt. 4 "Maxims and Interludes"

Whenever the roles of individuals within a group become specialized,
it becomes both possible and easy for the individual to pass the moral
buck to some other part of the group. In this way, not only does the
individual forsake his conscience but the conscience of the group as
a whole can become so fragmented and diluted as to be nonexistent.
. . . The plain fact of the matter is that any group will remain inevitably
potentially conscienceless and evil until such time as each and every
individual holds himself or herself directly responsible for the behavior
of the whole group - the organism - of which he or she is a part.
--Scott Peck (1936—2005)
American author.
_People of the Lie_ [1983]

All assemblages of man are different from the men
themselves. Neither intelligence nor culture can
prevent a mob from acting as a mob. The wise
man and the knave lose their identity and merge
themselves into a new being.
--Thomas Brackett Reed (1839—1902)
American lawyer and politician.
In a speech at Bowdoin College, Maine [25 July 1902].

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"Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of
them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had."

"Satan!"

"Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is
governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It
suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful
that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is
right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.
The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized,
are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but
in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they
don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted
creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally
helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as
an expert, I know that ninety-nine out of a hundred of your
race were strongly against the killing of witches when that
foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics
in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of
transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in
twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And
yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them
killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side
and make the most noise — perhaps even a single daring
man with a big voice and a determined front will do it —
and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and
witch-hunting will come to a sudden end."

--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_The Mysterious Stranger_, ch. 9 [1916]

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bevy [BEV-ee], noun:
1. A group; an assembly or collection.
2. A flock of birds, especially quails or
larks; also, a herd of roes.

cabal (noun) [kκ-'bζl or kκ-'bahl]
A secret group involved in plots and intrigues,
usually aimed at the overthrow of a power
structure.

camarilla (noun)
A group of confidential, often scheming advisers.
Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto

claque [KLACK], noun:
1. A group hired to applaud at a performance.
2. A group of fawning admirers.

doyen [DOY-en; DWAH-yan], 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.

internecine (adj.)
1. Destructive to all involved; mutually fatal or ruinous.
2. Of or pertaining to conflict, discord, or struggle within
a group.

retinue (noun)
The group following and attending to some important person.
Synonyms: entourage, cortege, suite



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GROUCHO MARX

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see: "HUMOR"
see: "PEOPLE" for other related links


The world would not be in such a snarl
If Marx had been Groucho instead of Karl.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
Birthday message to Groucho Marx,
quoted in Groucho Marx, _The Groucho Phile_ [1976].

I fell in love with Groucho when I was 14 and he
was in his 80s making a guest appearance on the
Bill Cosby show. I went on a crusade to see all
their movies, like staying up to watch the late show.
Sometimes a local television station presented
"Slapstick Cinema" on Sunday afternoons featuring
the Marxes or W.C. Fields, Mae West. I spent the
summer I was 14 in the library reading all the old
magazine articles and books about the Marxes I
could find. I worked up the courage to write to
Groucho, telling of all the works I had read about
him. I received in the mail an 8x10 photograph of
Groucho, Chico and Harpo in costume, with the
words: "I deny everything! Groucho" scrawled
across the top.
--Deb, alt.quotations

On his climb up the ladder he has enjoyed life to
the utmost. He has shaken hands with Presidents,
danced cheek to cheek with Marlene Dietrich,
played baseball with Lou Gehrig, traded backhands
with Jack Kramer, strummed guitar duets with the
great Segovia, and he's insulted nearly everyone
worth insulting.
--Arthur Marx (1921—2011)
American author and son of Groucho Marx.
_Life with Groucho_ [1954]

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Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas, and
how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
--Morrie Ryskind (1895—1985)
American screenwriter.
_Animal Crackers_ [1930 screenplay], spoken by Groucho Marx.

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The maξtre d'hτtel stopped Groucho as he was
about to enter the dining room of a smart Los
Angeles hotel. 'I am sorry, sir, but you have
no necktie.'

'That's all right,' said Groucho, 'don't be sorry.
I remember the time when I had no pants.'

'I am sorry, sir,' repeated the man, 'you cannot
enter the dining room without a necktie.'

Groucho caught sight of a bald man in the
center of the dining room and yelled, 'Look!
Look at him! You won't let me in without
a necktie, but you let him in without his
hair!'

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

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The wisdom of Groucho Marx:

Those are my principles. If you don't
like them, I have others.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

I never forget a face, but in your case
I'll be glad to make an exception.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends ...
may they never meet!

I find television very educating. Every time somebody
turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a
book.

She got her good looks from her father.
He's a plastic surgeon.

Anyone who says he can see through
women is missing a lot.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.
But this wasn't it.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to
a dead horse.

A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I was married by a judge. I should have
asked for a jury.

Now there's a man with an open mind — you
can feel the breeze from here!

Remember men, you are fighting for the lady's
honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of
men, the other 999 follow women.

Hello, I must be going.

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Groucho (directly to the camera as Chico
began the play the piano): I've got to stay
here, but there's no reason why you folks
shouldn't go out into the lobby until this
thing blows over.
--in the movie "Horse Feathers"



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GROWING

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see: "LIFE"
see: "KNOWLEDGE" for other related links
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links


All that is valuable in human society depends upon the
opportunity for development accorded the individual.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
Statement, London [15 September 1933].

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -
It's growth, mental, financial, you name it.
--Harold S. Geneen (1910—1997)
English-born American communications executive.
Quoted in Neil A. Hamilton
_American Business Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present_, vol. I [1999].

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,
but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable
him to put the other somewhat higher.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist; grandfather of Aldous Huxley.
Address at University College, London [18 May 1870].

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth,
would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold
the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold
the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913—1927]
Vol. V, _The Captive_ [1923], ch. II "The Verdurins Quarrel with M. de Charlus"

In a narrow circle the mind contracts.
Man grows with his expanded needs.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
Quoted in J. K. Hoyt (ed.) _The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_, p. 771 [1896].

You must not quote to me what
I once said. I am wiser now.
--attributed to Romy Schneider [Rosemarie Magdalene Albach] (1938—1982)
Austrian actress.

'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester,
'Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace.'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Richard III_, II, iv [1592—1593]

One grows or dies. There is no third possibility.
--Oswald Spengler (1880—1936)
German philosopher.
_Aphorisms_ #147

To hold the same views at forty as we held at
twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of
years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as
an unteachable brat, well birched and none
the wiser.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_Crabbed Age and Youth_ [1878]

When people will not weed their own minds,
they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
--Horace Walpole (1717—1797)
English writer and connoisseur.
Letter to Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury [10 July 1779].

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burgeon [BUR-juhn], intransitive verb:
1. To grow or develop quickly; flourish.
2. To begin to grow or blossom.

excrescence [ik-SKRESS-uhn(t)s], noun:
1. Something (especially something abnormal) growing
out from something else.
2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark, part, or addition.

fecund [FEE-kuhnd; FEK-uhnd], adjective:
1. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation;
fruitful; prolific.
2. Intellectually productive or inventive.


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