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KILL - KINGS
KISSING - (TO) KNOW - KNOWING (ONESELF)
KNOWING (SOMEONE) - KNOW-IT-ALL'S - KU KLUX KLAN

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see: "CRIME"
see: "HUNTING"
see: "MURDER"
see: "WAR"


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Clint Eastwood (1930— )
American film actor and director.

Eastwood was walking across the Warner
lot one day when he was suddenly
accosted by a young woman, who
shouted, 'You're a no good sonafabitch,
always making Mexicans the bad guys
in your films and killing them.' 'Don't
be angry,' responded the actor, 'I kill
lots of other people too.'

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

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Once a man's thirty, he's already old,
He is indeed as good as dead.
It's best to kill him right away.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Faust_ The Second Part, act II, "The Gothic Chamber"

I prefer killing to being killed. One may talk of peace only with
those who are peaceful. To talk of peace with him who holds
a drawn sword is foolish unless one is unarmed, then one must
talk very fast, indeed.
--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_The Walking Drum_ [1984]

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extirpate [EK-stur-payt], transitive verb:
1. To pull up by the stem or root.
2. To destroy completely.
3. To remove by surgery.
Ex.: A plant growing where it shouldn't is a weed. An object
for which you have no need or sentimental attachment is
garbage. Extirpate the one, toss the other.
--Philip Kennicott, "The Symphony's Misbegotten 'Moon,'"
_Washington Post_, [14 January 2000]



KINGS

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KINGS

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


I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of
responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I
would wish to do without the help and support of the
woman I love.
--Edward VIII (1894—1972)
King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor.
Abdication speech [11 December 1936].

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.
--Robert Herrick (1591—1674)
English poet and clergyman.
_Hesperides: or Works Both Humane and Divine_ [1648] "Kings and Tyrants"

There is no king, who, with a sufficient force, is not
always ready to make himself absolute.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
Letter to George Wythe [13 August 1786].

King Henry: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Henry IV, Part II, [1597]

The institution of Royalty in any form is an insult
to the human race.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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The king is dead — long live the king!
--anon.
(First used upon the death of King Charles VIII of France [1461].)



KISSING

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see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


One simple, passionate kiss
Can alter earth for ever.
--Laurence Binyon (1869—1943)
English poet.
"Westward", lines 173-4

Kiss me once and kiss me twice, and kiss me once again,
It's been a long, long time.
Haven't felt like this, my dear, since can't remember when.
It's been a long, long time.
You'll never know how many dreams I dreamed about you,
Or just how empty they all seemed without you.
So just kiss me once and kiss me twice,
Then kiss me once again. It's been a long, long time.
--Sammy Cahn (1913—1993) & Jule Styne [Julius Kerwin Stein]
(1905—1994) American songwriters.
"It's Been a Long, Long Time"

I kissed her. . . . It was like being in church.
--James M. Cain (1892—1977)
American novelist.
_The Postman Always Rings Twice_, ch. 3 [1934]

Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second
is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take
the girl's clothes off.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_The Long Goodbye_, ch. 12 [1953]

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Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of
(1881—1959) British Conservative statesman
and diplomat.

On a train journey to Bath, Halifax shared a
compartment with two rather prim-looking
middle-aged ladies. All three were strangers
to one another, and the journey passed in
silence until the train went through a tunnel.
In the total darkness of the compartment,
Halifax place a number of noisy kisses on
the back of his hand. As the train emerged
from the tunnel, the former ambassador
turned to his companions and asked, 'To
which of you charming ladies am I indebted
for the delightful incident in the tunnel?'

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

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Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.
--E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896—1981)
American songwriter.
"Inscriptions on a Lipstick" [1965]

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that
of cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal
longer.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ [1860]

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.
--Herman Hupfeld (1894—1951)
American songwriter.
"As Time Goes By" [1931 song from the show Everybody's Welcome.]

When a rogue kisses you, count your teeth.
--Jewish saying

I wasn't kissing her, I was just
whispering into her mouth.
--Chico Marx (1891—1961)
American film comedian.
On being discovered by his wife with a chorus girl.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
Attributed in Laurence J. Peter _Peter's Quotations_ [1977].

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A man loses his sense of direction after four
drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.


Just why the kiss as we know it should have attained
to its present popularity in Christendom is probably
one of the things past finding out. The Japanese, a
very affectionate and sentimental people, do not
practise kissing in any form; they regard the act, in
fact, with an aversion matching our own aversion to
the rubbing of noses. Nor is it in vogue among the
Moslems, nor among the Chinese, who countenance
it only as between a mother and child. Even in parts
of Christendom it is girt about by rigid taboos, so that
its practise tends to be restricted to a few occasions.
Two Frenchmen or Italians, when they meet, kiss
each other on both cheeks. One used to see, indeed,
many pictures of General Joffre thus bussing the
heroes of Verdun; there even appeared in print a
story to the effect that one of them objected to the
scratching of his moustache. But imagine two
Englishmen kissing! Or two Germans! As well
imagine the former kissing the latter! Such a
display of affection is simply impossible to men
of Northern blood; they would die with shame if
caught at it. The Englishman, like the American,
never kisses if he can help it. He even regards
it as bad form to kiss his wife in a railway station,
or, in fact, anywhere in sight of a third party.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Damn! A Book of Calumny_ [1918]

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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet.
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (1689—1762)
English writer.

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Foods taste better when they are dear. Think
how far kisses, the form of greeting peculiar to
our nation, have had their grace cheapened by
availability. Socrates thought they were most
powerful and dangerous at stealing our hearts.

Ours is an unpleasant custom which wrongs
the ladies who have to lend their lips to any
man, however ugly, who comes with three
footmen in his train. And we men gain little
from it: for as the world is made we have to
kiss fifty ugly women for every three beauties.
And for the delicate gullets of men of my
age, a bad kiss outweighs a good one.

--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essays_, Book III [1580], Chapter 5.

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A kiss on the cheek may be quite continental,
But diamonds are a girl's best friend.
--Leo Robin (1900—1984)
American songwriter.
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (song)
In the musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" [1949].

I smoked my first cigarette and kissed my first
woman on the same day. I have never had time
for tobacco since.
--Arturo Toscanini (1867—1957)
Italian conductor.
In "Observer" [30 June 1946].

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss.
I've always found time to teach them.
--Mae West (1893—1980)
American stage and film actress.

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A man may kiss his love goodbye.
The rose may kiss the butterfly.
The wine may kiss the crystal glass.
And you my friend may kiss my ass.

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mistletoe (noun) ['mi-sκl-to]
A semiparasitic green shrub with thick green leaves and waxy white
berries used as Christmas decoration in English-speaking countries.
In English-speaking countries, mistletoe has the magical powers of
granting the right to kiss anyone standing beneath it. The tradition in
England is that, after every kiss, a berry is plucked from the twig and
when the last berry is removed, the twig's powers are exhausted.
The powers of American mistletoe last much longer.

osculate (verb) ['ah-skyκ-leyt]
To come together, to contact (as two osculating circles); to kiss.



(TO) KNOW

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see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links


When you know a thing, to hold that you
know it; and when you do not know a
thing, to allow that you do not know
it — that is knowledge.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_ bk. 2:17

To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know
is a disease.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).
_The Way of Lao-tzu_, #71

Nothing is so firmly believed as
what is least known.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essays_ [1580] bk. 1, ch. 32

To know is not to prove, nor to explain.
It is to accede to vision.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupιry (1900—1944)
French novelist.
_Flight to Arras_ [1942)] tr. Lewis Galantiθre

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other
hand, water is water! And East is East and West
is West and if you take cranberries and stew them
like applesauce they taste much more like prunes
than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me
what you know.
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.
In "Animal Crackers" [movie].

It is better, of course, to know useless
things than to know nothing.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistles_



KNOWING (ONESELF)

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see "INDIVIDUALITY" for related links


Our entire life consists ultimately
in accepting ourselves as we are.
--Jean [-Marie-Lucien-Pierre] Anouilh (1910—1987)
French playwright.

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me —
I am the kind of woman I would run from.
--Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
(1879—1964)
American-born, first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
"To a Louse" [1786]

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"Who are you?" said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation.
Alice replied, rather shyly, "I — I hardly know, Sir, just
at present — at least I know who I _was_ when I got
up this morning, but I think I must have been changed
several times since then."
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865]

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the
ego; the self is more distant than any star.
--G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936)
English essayist, novelist, and poet.

He that has never known adversity is but half
acquainted with others, or with himself.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we
are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
--Attributed to Confucius
by Oliver Goldsmith and quoted in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best
Words of the Best Authors_, p. 125 [1856, 8th ed.].

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There are three things extremely hard: steel,
a diamond, and to know one's self.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.


Observe all men; they self most.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [August 1740]

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No Man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732]

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
--Ava Gardner (1922—1990)
American actress.
Quoted in Roland Flamini _Ava_ [1983].

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
--Baltasar Graciαn (1601—1658)
Spanish Jesuit philosopher.
_The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647]

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country
its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your
community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader"
than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the
smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task.
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

It is the individual who knows how little he knows about
himself who stands a reasonable chance of finding out
something about himself before he dies.
--S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa (1906—1992)
English professor and academic; U.S. Senator
from California [1977—1983].

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves,
it is because self-knowledge is painful and
we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
_The Perennial Philosophy_ [1946], ch. 9

Adversity has ever been considered the state in
which a man most easily becomes acquainted
with himself.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

Everything that irritates us about others can
lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.
In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham
_And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. 165 [1992].

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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.


Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they
form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

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He who knows others is wise;
He who knows himself is enlightened.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
the first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power)#33.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_Kavanagh_, ch. 1

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and
for the divinity within him and the service of its
goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints,
and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, trans. Maxwell Staniforth [1964

There are times when I look over the various parts of
my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am
made up of several persons and the person which at
the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give
place to another. But which is the real me? All of
them, or none?
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_A Writer's Notebook_ [1949], p. 32

Cherish forever what makes you unique,
'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
--Bette Midler (1945— )
American singer, actress, and producer.

There's as much difference between us and
ourselves as between us and others.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essays_, Bk. 2

I have had more trouble with myself than with
any other man I have ever met!
--Dwight Lyman Moody (1837—1899)
American evangelist and publisher.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Essay on Man_ [1733] Epistle 2, l. 1

At seventy, I realized that instead of being a lunatic,
I was a moron.
--Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
American expatriate poet and critic.
In _Horizon_ [March 1978].

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].

Can one thus resume one's self? Can one know
one's self? Is one ever somebody? I don't know
anything about it any more. It now seems to me
that one changes from day to day and that every
few years one becomes a new being.
--George Sand [pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin] (1804—1876)
French author.
"Final Comment by George Sand"
in _The Intimate Journal of George Sand_ [1929],
September 1868 entry.

I yam what I yam, an' that's all I yam!
--Elzie Crisler Segar (1894—1938)
American cartoonist and creator of _Popeye_.
"Thimble Theatre" [c. 1932], Popeye speaking

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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_ [1599], act 1, sc. 2, l. 138


This above all, to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_ [1601], I, iii, 78

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This is . . . self-knowledge — for a man to
know what he knows, and what he does
not know.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In Plato (427?-327 B.C.) _Charmides_.

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Know thyself.
--Solon (630?—560? B.C.)
Athenian lawmaker and Lyric poet.

& see:

'Know thyself?' If I knew myself,
I'd run away.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

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Know the enemy and know yourself, and you can
fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
--Sun Tzu (fl. early 4th cent.)
Reputed author of of the Chinese classic
Ping-fa (The Art of War), the earliest known
treatise on war and military science {EB}.

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A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself
is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To
take no account of oneself, but always to think well
and highly of others is the highest wisdom and
perfection.

Should you see another person openly doing evil,
or carrying out a wicked purpose, do not on that
account consider yourself better than him, for you
cannot tell how long you will remain in a state of
grace. We are all frail; consider none more frail
than yourself.

--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420],
Book 1, Chapter 2: "On Personal Humility"

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own
private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it
is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [1854] "Economy"

There are few things more painful than
to recognize one's own faults in others.
--John Wells (1936—1998)
British actor, comedian, and writer.
In "Observer" [23 May 1982].

Only the Shallow know themselves.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

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Know thyself.
--anon.
(Inscribed on the temple of Apollo at Delphi; Plato
ascribes the saying to the Seven Wise Men - ODTQ.)



KNOWING (SOMEONE)

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see: "JUDGE (TO)"
see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links


You can tell more about a person by what
he says about others than you can by what
others say about him.
--Leo Aikman
Quoted in Anne Bruce _Building A HIgh Morale Workplace_, p. 87 [2002]

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human
nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what
instincts dominate his action . . . if you know
these things about a man you can touch him at
the core of his being.
--William Bernbach (1911—1982)
American advertising executive and copywriter.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or
pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a
portrait of himself.
--Samuel Butler (1835—1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_The Way of All Flesh_ [1903], ch. 14

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance
and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another
side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like
ourselves.
--Willa Sibert Cather (1873—1947)
American novelist.
_Shadows on the Rock_ [1931]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem,
not because they are known, but because they are
not.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
--William Ellery Channing (1780—1842)
American Unitarian clergyman and author.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not
infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never
more deceived than when we mistake gravity for
greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for
erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

Observe a man's actions; scrutinize his motives;
take note of the things that give him pleasure.
How, then, can he hide from you what he really
is?
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
--Joseph Conrad [Teodor Jσzef Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski] (1857—1924)
Polish-born English novelist.
_Lord Jim_ [1900]

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human
creature is constituted to be that profound secret
and mystery to every other.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_A Tale of Two Cities_, bk. I, ch. 3 [1859]

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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

--Emily Dickinson (1830—1886)
American poet.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" [1861]

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get
to know a man...you will get better results if you
just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a
good man.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881),
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure
on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil
in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment
and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance
turns.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
Quoted in Mathew Carey (ed.)
_The School of Wisdom, or, American Monitor_ p.59 [2nd ed. 1803].

I now know all the people worth knowing in
America, and I find no intellect comparable
to my own.
--[Sarah] Margaret Fuller (1810—1850)
American critic, teacher, and woman of letters.
Quoted in Robert Chambers _The Book of Days_, p. 68.

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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you,
but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would
understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he
does not say.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.


To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not
at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires
to.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.

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No human being can really understand another,
and no one can arrange another's happiness.
--Graham Greene (1904—1991)
English novelist.
_The Heart of the Matter_, pt. 3, ch. I [1948]

Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a
faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough
to know whom to despise.
--Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
English novelist and poet.
_A Pair of Blue Eyes_, ch. 9 [1873]

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note
the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They
may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of;
but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man
keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
--Augustus William Hare (1792—1834)
British biographer and compiler of travel books &
Julius Charles Hare (1795—1855)
British cleric and author.
_Guesses at Truth_ [1827]

Whenever two people meet there are really six
people present. There is each man as he sees
himself, each man as the other sees him, and
each man as he really is.
--William James (1842—1910)
American philosopher.

When the character of a man is not clear to you,
look at his friends.
--Japanese Proverb

We all have a face that we hide away forever,
And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather.
They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.
--Billy Joel (William Martin Joel) (1949— )
American pianist, singer, and songwriter.
"The Stranger" [1977 song]

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits,
that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
--Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808—1890)
French novelist and journalist.
Attributed in Louis Klopsch _Many Thoughts of Many Minds_, p. 37 [1896].

Though I've belted you an' flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"Gunga Din" st. 5, [1892]

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We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]


Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought,
as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear
like ourselves without being at the trouble of
any disguise at all.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

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I have always thought the actions of men
the best interpreters of their thoughts.
--John Locke (1632—1704)
English political and educational philosopher.
_An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690]

It takes a long time, and what is more, a true
heart, to know anybody. There are people that
belong to the same family through the whole
of a long life, and yet do not know each other
to the very end.
--George MacDonald (1824—1905)
Scottish writer and poet.
_God's Words to His Children_, ch. XII "Divine and Human Relationship" [1887]

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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures
of our heart, but they have not the power to accept
them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not
together, unable to know our fellows and unknown
by them.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_The Moon and Sixpence_ [1919]


It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits
should exist in the same person and, for all that,
yield a plausible harmony.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

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Few men are admired by their servants.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
--Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.—18 A.D.)
Roman poet.
_The Art of Love_

You can discover more about a person in an hour
of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

Not always actions show the man: we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Moral Essays_ [1731—1735],
"Epistle I, To Lord Cobham" [1734]

The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind.
Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion
by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship,
politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is
the only creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows
only in himself; when he asserts the contrary he is lying.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913—1927] "The Sweet Cheat Gone"

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung
along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable
points.
--Ayn Rand (1905—1982)
Russian-born American writer.
_Atlas Shrugged_ [1957]

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is
that not everybody wishes you well.
--Dan Rather (1931— )
American televison journalist.

Good men can more easily see through bad
men than the latter can the former.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.
_Hesperus_, IV [1794]

Taste . . . is the *only* morality. . . . Tell me
what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_The Crown of Wild Olive_, lecture 2 [1866]

Tell me who admires you and loves you,
and I will tell you who you are.
--Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804—1869)
French critic and literary historian.
Quoted in Mark Goulston _The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship_, p. 111 [2002].

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there
is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.

Every one is a moon, and has a dark
side which he never shows to anybody.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897],
ch. 66 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet
no one ever come to sit by it. Passers by see only
a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on
the way.
--Vincent van Gogh (1853—1890)
Dutch painter.
Quoted in Donna Ward La Cour_Artists in Quotation_ [1989]

If you really want to judge the character of a man,
look not at his great performances. Every fool may
become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man
do his most common actions; these are indeed the
things which will tell you the real character of a
great man.
--Vivekananda (1863—1902)
Hindu spiritual leader and reformer.
_Swami Vivekananda on Universal Ethics and Moral
Conduct_ {Comp. by Swami Ranganathananda} [1965].

It's not what you know, but who you know.
--"Washington Post" [1 March 1952]



KNOW-IT-ALL'S

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see: "PEDANTRY"
see "FAILURE" for other related links


It is easy when we are in prosperity
to give advice to the afflicted.
--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.

Those people who think they know everything are
a great annoyance to those of us who do.
--Isaac Asimov (1920—1992)
Russian-born American author.

You can always tell a Harvard man when
you see him, but you can't tell him much.
--Arthur Twining Hadley (1856—1930)
American economist and university president.
Quoted in "Chicago Daily Tribune" [27 May 1906].

To be the supreme authority on anything is
a satisfaction to self-love next door to the
precious delusions of dementia.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872]

I'm only twenty-two and I feel I've seen everything.
It makes it very difficult sometimes.
--Johnny Rotten [John Lydon] (1956— )
British rock singer.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail
to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle
is contempt prior to investigation.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could
hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in
seven years.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Attributed in _Reader's Digest_ [September 1937]. However, Fred R. Shapiro (ed.)
in _The Yale Book of Quotations_, p. 782 [2006] argues that the quotation is
"obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven
years old."

I am not young enough to know everything.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

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pontificate [v. pon-TIFF-ih-kate or n. pon-TIFF-i-kit]
To speak with exaggerated authority, lecturing as
knowing everything about a topic.
Syn.: sermonize, exhort, admonish, preach, and lecture.

quidnunc [KWID-nuhngk], noun:
One who is curious to know everything that passes;
one who knows or pretends to know all that is going
on; a gossip; a busybody.



KU KLUX KLAN

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If any Senator now, in looking over the record of
crime of all ages, can tell me of an association, a
conspiracy, or a band of men who combined in their
acts and in their purposes more that is diabolical
than this Ku Klux Klan I should like to know where
it is. They are secret, oath-bound; they murder, rob,
plunder, whip, and scourge; and they commit these
crimes, not upon the high and lofty, but upon the
lowly, upon the poor, upon feeble men and women
who are utterly defenseless.

--Senator John Sherman of Ohio [18 March 1871]
_Congressional Record_.
in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 641
Cohan & Major note:
Sherman was castigating the self-styled 'Invisible Empire'
of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society founded in May 1866
to defend white interests by force. The name was a
bastardization of the Greek word kuklos (circle). Headed
by a Grand Wizard (the former Confederate General Nathan
Bedford Forrest), its members wore white hoods to protect
their anonymity and burned fiery crosses in front of their
black victims' houses. The Klan was formally disbanded
in 1869 but its values persisted throughout the South.

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