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. . . GROWING UP see: "MATURITY" see: "AGE" for other related links You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore (18791959) American actress of the Barrymore family. Quoted in "The Tell Tale" [1940]. "When I was a small boy in Kansas," Eisenhower once recalled, "a friend of mine and I went fishing, and as we sat there in the warmth on a summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." --Carl M. Cannon, _The Oval Office and the Diamond_, "The Atlantic Monthly" [May 2001] Oh! To be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to *believe*. --Fanny Fern [Sarah Willis] (18111872) American newspaper columnist. _Ginger-Snaps_ [1870] Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _The Crack-Up_ [essays, 1945] - Verse 1 Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? I don't remember growing older. When did they? When did she get to be a beauty? When did he grow to be so tall? Wasn't it yesterday when they were small? Refrain Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset, Swiftly flow the days; Seedlings turn overnight to sunflow'rs, Blossoming even as we gaze. Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset, Swiftly fly the years; One season following another, Laden with happiness and tears. Verse 2 Now is the little boy a bridegroom, Now is the little girl a bride. Under the canopy I see them, Side by side. Place the gold ring around her finger, Share the sweet wine and break the glass; Soon the full circle will have come to pass. --Sheldon Harnick (b. 1924) American lyricist. "Sunrise, Sunset" 1964 song from the stage production of _Fiddler on the Roof_, music by Jerry Bock. - We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' --Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. _On the Contrary_ [1962] - "If" Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more you'll be a Man, my son! - The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. --Max Lerner (19021992) American educator, author, and syndicated columnist. _The Unfinished Century_ [1959] We've had bad luck with our kids they've all grown up. --attributed to Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them no matter how old or impressive they may be as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. --Leo Rosten (19081997) Polish-born American writer and social scientist.  . . see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. --William H. Walton Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1990]. The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge. --anon. . . see: "COMPANY" see: "HOSPITALITY" see: "PARTIES" see: "WELCOME" see: "HOME & FAMILY" for other related links To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit? --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Vicar of Wakefield_, ch. XIX [1766 novel, completed 1762] A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast. --George Herbert (15931633) English religious poet. "The Church Porch" in _The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations_ [1633]. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. --attributed to William Dean Howells (18371920) American novelist and critic. It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. --Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (16091674) English statesman and historian. "Of Conscience" [9 March 1670] The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. --Ιdouard Renι de Laboulaye (18111883) French jurist, poet, and author. _Abdallah_ "The Well of Zobeyde" [1880] No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. --Titus Maccius Plautus (254184 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _Miles Gloriosus_, III, i True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. Pope's translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 [1725-1756]. Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Henry VI_ II, ii [1592] ;void(0)) GUILT . . see: "CONSCIENCE" see: "SIN" see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for other related links see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links see: "EVIL" for other related links Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. --Erma Bombeck (19271996) American humorist. _Time_ [2 July 1984] Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. --Anita Brookner (b. 1928) British novelist and art historian. _Hotel du Lac_ [1984] Thou need'st not answer thy confession speaks, Already reddening in thy guilty cheeks. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. "The Corsair, A Tale" [1814] The guilty think all talk is of themselves. --Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13431400) English poet. _The Canterbury Tales_ [c. 1387] "The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue" A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, thinks everything that is said meant at him. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694 1773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [27 September 1749]. In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. --Amanda Cross [pseu. of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun] (19262003) American academic and author. _Poetic Justice_ [1970] It, therefore, follows that along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000 potential enemies, of Japanese extraction, are at large today. There are indications that these are organized and ready for concerted action at a favorable opportunity. The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken. --John DeWitt (18801962) American army officer. Final Recommendation of the Commanding General, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, Submitted to the Secretary of War [14 February 1942]. Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. --Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist. _The History of Amelia_ [1751] Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisioned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil. --E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879 1970) English novelist. _Howards End_, ch. 41 [1910] A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. "France et. al. v. Goering et. al.", (Intl Mil. Trib. 1946). A guilty conscience is like a whirlpool, drawing in all to itself which would otherwise pass by. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Attributed in Henry Southgate (ed.) _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_ [1862, 3rd edition]. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! --Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The House of the Seven Gables_, ch. 11 [1851] I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. --Ben Hecht (18931964) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. _A Child of the Century_ [1954] For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. --Lillian Hellman (19051984) American dramatist. _Watch on the Rhine_, act II [1941] You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down Complain about the present and blame it on the past I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass. Get over it. --Don Henley (b. 1947) American rock musician. "Get Over It" from the Eagles' album _Hell Freezes Over_ [1994]. We are not punished for our sins, but by them. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923] Admit thy guilt and seek forgiveness, for the denial of guilt is two iniquities. --Ibn Gabirol (c.1022c.1058) Spanish poet. _Choice of Pearls_, tr. A. Cohen [1925] God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. --attributed to Alfred Korzybski (18791950) Polish-American philosopher and scientist. True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. --R.D. Laing (19271989) Scottish psychiatrist. _Self and Others_ [1961] To be left alone And face to face with my own crime, had been Just retribution. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _The Masque of Pandora_, VIII "In The Garden" [1875] Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. --Lucan [Marcus Annaeus Lucanus] (3965) Roman poet and republican patriot. _Pharsalia_, VII, 263 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 (18141889) Scottish poet and newspaperman. _Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds_ [1841] His face was filled with broken commandments. --John Masefield (18781967) English novelist, poet, and playwright. Quoted in H. V. Prochnow _New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom_, p. 86 [1958]. There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essays_ [1588], tr. Donald M. Frame [1958], bk. 3, ch. 9 My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. --Anna Sewell (18201878) English author. _Black Beauty_ ch. 3 [1877] (This was her only book for which she was paid a mere £20.) - Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Henry VI_, pt. III, V, vi [15901591] They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _The Rape of Lucrece_, l. 1342 [1594] - Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Journal_ [11 November 1850] - Fear follows crime and is its punishment. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Quoted in N.M. Hentz _A Manual of French Phrases_ [2nd ed. 1824]. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. Quoted in Evan Esar _20,000 Quips & Quotes_, p. 363 [1995]. - From the body of one guilty deed A thousand ghostly fears, and haunting thoughts, proceed! --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. _Memorials of a Tour on the Continent_ [1820] "Echo, Upon the Gemmi" The man that blushes is not quite a brute. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts", VII, l. 496 [1742-1745] - [Jury forewoman:] We find the defendant very, very guilty. --"New Yorker" cartoon caption [late 1940s] If your conscience is troubled, beware the knock on your door, Fear the earth as it trembles, the sky when it roars. Beware of the dweller within, not the men that comes to greet you. --anon. ----- albatross [AL-buh-traws; AL-buh-tros], noun: 1. Any of several large, web-footed sea birds of the family Diomedeidae that have the ability to remain aloft for long periods. 2. A seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, as of guilt or responsibility. 3. Something burdensome that impedes action or progress. compunction (noun) A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt. Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach  GULLIBLE . . see: "TRUST" see: "DECEPTION" for other related links Then Timur returned to Khorasan with a fixed purpose of taking revenge on [the city of] Seistan whose inhabitants went out to him asking for peace and agreement, which he granted them on condition that they should hand over their arms to him, of which they produced the whole equipment which they had, hoping in this way to escape from their extremity; and he put them on oath and ordered them to swear plainly that no further weapons were left in the city. And as soon as they had given this guarantee, he drew the sword against them and billeted upon them all the armies of death. Then he laid the city waste, leaving in it not a tree or a wall and destroyed it utterly, no mark or trace remaining. --Ahmed Ibn Arabshah (1388-1450) in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 256 [2004]. - If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically. --Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) English dramatist. _Round and Round the Garden_ [1975] There's a sucker born every minute. --Phineas T. Barnum (18101891) American showman. Attributed in Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel [17 January 1894]. Cursed is he that does not know when to shut his mind. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or may be found a little draughty. --Samuel Butler (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907], "Falsehood" The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. Attributed in _Extracts From Ancient and Modern Authors_, [pub. E. Bridgewater, London, 1828]. Only a woman will believe in a man who has once been detected in fraud and falsehood. --Alexandre Dumas (18021870) French novelist and dramatist. In Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts about Women_ p. 290 [1882]. A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. --Euripides (485?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Helen_ [412 BC] He that knows nothing will believe anything. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Quoted in Martin H. Manser _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_, p. 692 [1993]. My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And when they were served, he regarded them With a penetrating stare. . . Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom As he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid. . . BUT. . .you must spit out the air!" And. . .as you partake of the world's bill of fare, That's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air, And be careful what you swallow. --Theodor Seuss Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (19041991) American writer and illustrator of children's books. Speech to the 1977 graduating class at Lake Forest College. In Charles D. Cohen, _The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing But the Seuss, A Visual Biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel_ [2004]. [Catchphrase of Maxwell Smart (Don Adams):] Would you believe . . . --"Get Smart" [American TV show 19651970] People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool. --Terry Goodkind (b. 1948) American fantasy author. _Wizard's First Rule_ [1994] Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alex Hamilton (b. 1936) British writer and broadcaster. "Born Old" (radio broadcast), quoted in "Listener" [9 November 1978]. - You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. In a speech in Clinton, Illinois [8 September 1858]. & note: One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages. --Denis Diderot (17131784) French writer and philosopher. _Encyclopιdie ou Dictionnaire raisonnι des Sciences_, vol. 4 [1754] & see: You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (19182002) Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian. _Puckoon_ [1963] & lastly: You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can make a damn fool of yourself any old time. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _Peter's Almanac_ [1982] - Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. "Witches and other Night-fears" in _Essays of Elia_ [1823]. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. --John Lyly (1554?1606) English prose stylist and playwright. Quoted in Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh _The English Novel_ [1894]. If it were an innocent, passive gullibility, it would be excusable; but all too clearly, alas, it is an active willingness to be deceived. --Peter Medawar (19151987) Brazilian-born British scientist. Review of Teilhard de Chardin _The Phenomenon of Man [1961]. - - Everyone worked according to his capacity ... Nobody shirked or almost nobody. ... the behavior of the cat was somewhat peculiar. It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe her good intentions. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. _Animal Farm_, ch. 3 [1945] The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we *know* to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. "In Front of Your Nose" Essay printed in _Tribune_ [22 March 1946]; reprinted in _The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_ ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, vol. 4 [4 vols., 1968]. - To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. --Jules Henri Poincarι (18541912) French mathematician and philosopher of science. _Science and Hypothsis_ [1903], author's preface I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. Attributed in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977]. I was a little shocked at the faces, especially those of the women, when Hitler finally appeared on the balcony for a moment. They reminded me of the crazed expressions I saw once in the back country of Louisiana on the faces of some Holy Rollers who were about to hit the trail. They looked up at him as if he were a Messiah, their faces transformed into something positively inhuman. --William L. Shirer (19041993) American journalist, historian, and novelist. _Berlin Diary_ [1941], p. 24 [4 September 1934] The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. --Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet. Quoted in Jane Porter (ed.) _Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney_ [1807]. The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be, and who does not, upon many occasions, give credit to tales, which not only turn out to be perfectly false, but which a very moderate degree of reflection and attention might have taught him could not well be true. The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. --Adam Smith (17231790) Scottish economist. _The Theory of Moral Sentiments_ [1759], pt. VII , sec. IV People flatter us because they can depend on our Credulity. --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian. _The Annals_ XVI. 2. [109] [I am] convinced of [Hitler's] sincerity in desiring peace in Europe. --Arnold Toynbee (18891975) English historian. (After an interview with Hitler in 1936.) In H.R. Trevor-Roper _Arnold Toynbee's Millennium_ "Encounter" [June 1957]. - And what was John's role in all of this? John? John is a lunkhead. He did what I told him. John would think it was raining if you pissed in his eyes. --Scott Turow (b. 1949) American lawyer and author of legal thrillers. _The Burden of Proof_ [1990] - ----- purblind [PUR-blynd], adjective: 1. Having greatly reduced vision. 2. Lacking in insight or discernment. end page | GAMBLING - GARDENS | GARFIELD - GENERATION GAP | GENEROSITY - GENTLEMEN | GEOGRAPHY - GERSHWIN | GHOSTS - GLASSES | GLOBALIZATION - GOALS | GOD | GOLF | GOOD DEEDS - GOODBYES | GOODNESS - GOVERNMENT | GRACE - GRASS | GRATITUDE | GRAVEYARDS - GREED | GREETINGS - GROWING | GROWING OLDER - PAGE 1 (A-L) | GROWING OLDER - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | GROWING UP - GULLIBLE | GUN CONTROL & GUNS | | 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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