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;void(0)) . . . LONELINESS see: "ALONE" see: "SOLITUDE" see: "INDIVIDUALITY" for other related links see: "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links I am not afraid of pain, nor of sorrow. But this loneliness, this futility, this emptiness I dare not face them. --Ruth Benedict (18871948) American anthropologist, teacher, and writer. Journal [October 1912] in Margaret Mead (ed.) _An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict_ pt. 2 [1959]. Please fence me in baby the world's too big out here and I don't like it without you. --Humphrey Bogart (18991957) American actor. Telegram to Lauren Bacall, in Lauren Bacall _By Myself_ [1978]. I alone am left on earth! To whom nor relative nor blood remains, No! not a kindred drop that runs in human veins. --Thomas Campbell (17771844) Scottish poet. "Gertrude of Wyoming", pt. III, st. XVII [1809] A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbeys gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. --John Cheever (19121982) American novelist and short story writer. 1966 entry in _The Journals of John Cheever_ [1991]. People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone. --Quentin Crisp [Denis Pratt] (19081999) English writer. _Sunday Telegraph_ [28 September 1999] What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Middlemarch_, bk. 8, ch. 44 [1871] Thirty the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 7 [1925] America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone. --Billy Graham (b. 1918) American Christian evangelist. _Peace with God_ [1984] - Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. --Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian feminist. _The Female Eunuch_ [1970] Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspapers, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room. --Germaine Greer (b. 1939) Australian feminist. _The Female Eunuch_ [1970] - You'll never walk alone. --Oscar Hammerstein II (18951960) American songwriter. Title of song, from the 1945 musical "Carousel". Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier. --Lillian Hellman (19051984) American dramatist. _The Autumn Garden_, act 1 [1951] - In the wee small hours of the morning, While the whole wide world is fast asleep, You lie awake and think about the girl And never even think of counting sheep. When your lonely heart has learned its lesson, You'd be hers if only she would call. In the wee small hours of the morning, That's the time you miss her most of all. --Bob Hilliard (19181971) American lyricist. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" [1955 song] (Music by David Mann.) - There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. _The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_ [1954] Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (Grandson of T.H. Huxley.) _Beyond the Mexique Bay_ [1934] I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [1801-1809]. Letter to Charles Pinckney [3 September 1816]. - It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, The regular crowd shuffles in. There's an old man sitting next to me, Makin' love to his tonic and gin. He says, 'Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes, But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, When I wore a younger man's clothes.' Sing us a song, you're the piano man, Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feelin' alright. Now John at the bar is a friend of mine, He gets me my drinks for free. And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, But there's someplace that he'd rather be. He says, 'Bill, I believe this is killing me,' As the smile ran away from his face. 'Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star, If I could get out of this place.' Sing us a song, you're the piano man, Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feelin' alright. Now Paul is a real estate novelist, Who never had time for a wife. And he's talking with Davy who's still in the navy, And probably will be for life. And the waitress is practicing politics, As the businessmen slowly get stoned; Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness, But it's better than drinking alone. [. . . ] --Billy Joel (William Martin Joel) (b. 1949) American pianist, singer, and songwriter. "Piano Man" [1973 song] - - If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. _Erinnerungen, Trδume, Gedanken_ (Memories, Dreams, Reflections) [1962] "Retrospect" Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. _Erinnerungen, Trδume, Gedanken_ (Memories, Dreams, Reflections) [1962] "Retrospect" - How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _Old Familiar Faces_ [1798] He's a real Nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his Nowhere plans for nobody. --John Lennon (19401980) English pop singer and songwriter. "Nowhere Man" [1965 song] No man is lonely while eating spaghetti it requires too much attention. --Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. Quoted in "Life" (mag.) [24 October 1969]. It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their time. --Thomas Brackett Reed (18391902 In an address c. 1899, quoted in William Alexander Robinson _Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian_ [1930]. If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. --attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) French philosopher and novelist; winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature. The most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for the moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness. --Charles Schulz (19222000) American cartoonist. _You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown_ [1985] We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say and to feel 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.' --John Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. Quoted in George Plimpton (ed.) _Writers at Work, Fourth Series_ [1981]. - The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody. --Mother Teresa (19101997) Roman Catholic nun and missionary. Quoted in _Observer_ [3 October 1971]. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. --Mother Teresa (19101997) Roman Catholic nun and missionary. Quoted in William Safire & Leonard Safir _Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice_ [1989]. - Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. --Paul Johannes Tillich (18861965) German-born American theologian. _The Eternal Now_ [1963] "Loneliness and Solitude" Be good and you will be lonesome. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Holographed caption under frontispiece photograph of the author in _Following the Equator_ [1897]. Anytime I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, there goes a person who cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore. --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (19222007) American novelist and short-story writer. _Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage_ [1981], ch. 11 "Religion" When You're All Dressed Up and Have No Place To Go. --George Whiting (18841943) American songwriter. Title of 1912 song. Hear that lonesome whipporwhill; It sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low. I'm so lonesome I could cry. --Hank Williams (19231953) American songwriter and singer of country music. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" [1942 song] - The mailman passes by, And I just wonder why He never stops to ring my front doorbell. There's not a single line from that dear old love of mine, No, not a word since I last heard "Farewell." I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter And make believe it came from you. I'm gonna write words, oh, so sweet, They're gonna knock me off my feet. A lot of kisses on the bottom, I'll be glad I got' em. I'm gonna smile and say, "I hope you're feeling better," And close "with love" the way you do. I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, And make believe it came from you. --Joe Young (18891939) American songwriter. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" [1935 song] sung by Fats Waller; music by Fred E. Ahlert. - I know of no more potent killer than isolation. There is no more destructive influence on physical and mental health than the isolation of you from me and of us from them. It has been shown to be a central agent in the etiology of depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, rape, suicide, mass murder, and a wide variety of disease states. ... The devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and to isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands, or economic anxieties. --Philip G. Zimbardo (b. 1933) American psychologist. "The Age of Indifference" _Psychology Today_ [30 August 1980] ----- anomie [AN-uh-mee], noun: A sense of loneliness and anxiety; a state or condition characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.  ;void(0)) LONERS . . see: "ALONE" see: "ISOLATION" see: "SOLITUDE" see: "INDIVIDUALITY" for related links Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. _Young India_ [weekly journal; 17 June 1926] He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_, XCIII [1665] ----- maverick (noun) ['mζ-vκr-ik] An outsider, an iconoclast or self-oriented person who lives by his or her own rules, often perceived as a danger or threat. . . see: "BORES" see: "DULLNESS" see: "NOISE" see: "SPEECH" see: "TALK TOO MUCH" see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links Far too numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681] If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end. --Sara Jeannette Duncan (18611922) Camadian journalist and essayist. _The Imperialist_ [1904] Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. --Robert Frost (18741963) American poet. Quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow _The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom_ [1958]. ^^ I was reminded of the after-dinner speaker who went on and on until a guest was so fed up that he picked up a bottle and shied it at the speaker's head. Unfortunately it missed the speaker and hit a little man sitting beside him, knocking him out. Immediately people rushed to revive him, and when he eventually came round, he was heard to say: "Please hit me again. I can still hear him." --_The Best After-Dinner Stories_ [2003], selected and introduced by Tim Heald ^^ The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous. --Douglas Jerrold (18031857) English playwright and journalist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 254 [1882]. Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. --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), from which comes this quote. [Water clocks were used to measure periods of time - one water clock lasted approximately 20 minutes:] Seven water-clocks' allowance you asked for in loud tones, Caecilianus, and the judge unwillingly granted them. But you speak much and long, and with back-tilted head, swill tepid water out of glass flasks. That you may once for all sate your oratory and your thirst, we beg you, Caecilianus, now to drink out of the water-clock! --Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis] (38/41103) Roman poet. Quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin _The Discoverers_ [1983]. I never mind my wife having the last word. In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it. --Walter Matthau (19202000) American actor. Attributed in Geoff Tibballs _The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners_ [2004]. Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. --Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (16891755) French philosopher, jurist, and satirist. Attributed in Hugh Moore _A Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 198 [1831]. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (17121778) French philosopher and novelist. _Emile_ [1762] Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_ [10th ed. 1884]. - I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. "The Remarkable Rocket" short story in _The Happy Prince and Other Tales_ [1888]. [H]e goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Attributed in _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977]. - ----- circumlocution [sir-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn], noun: The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language. logorrhea [law-guh-REE-uh], noun: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness. pleonasm [PLEE-uh-naz-uhm], noun: The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; as, "I saw it with my own eyes." Synonyms: redundancy, circumlocution, tautology, periphrasis. verbose [vuhr-BOHS], adjective: Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by an excess of words; wordy; as, "a verbose speaker; a verbose argument." ;void(0)) LOS ANGELES . . see: "CALIFORNIA" see: "PLACES" for other related links [Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) on Los Angeles:] I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (b. 1935) American actor, screenwriter, and director. "Annie Hall" [1977 film] Coming from England, of course, it was extraordinary. There we were, renting a Mustang convertible and driving down Sunset, picking up beautiful blonde girls. I mean, it was a fairly decent introduction to *anywhere*! If anything, I got an overly golden impression of Los Angeles at that point. --Peter Asher (b. 1944) English singer (Peter & Gordon) and record producer. Quoted in Barney Hoskyns _Waiting for the Sun: A Rock and Roll History of Los Angeles_ [1996]. One of the San Francisco papers sponsored a "Why I Hate L.A. In A Thousand Words Or Less" contest. The winner, letting success go to his head, moved down to West Hollywood, where he's been pitching screenplays ever since. --Berton Averre (b. 1953) American guitarist in the rock group "The Knack." Quoted in Jon Winokur's _War Between the State_ [2004], "Los Angeles vs. San Francisco". I used to like this town. Los Angeles was just a big dry sunny place with ugly homes and no style. Now we've got the big money, the sharp shooters, the percentage workers, the fast-dollar boys, the hoodlums out of New York and Chicago ... the flashy restaurants and nightclubs they run ... the riffraff of a big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. --"Philip Marlowe" in Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) _The Little Sister_ [1949] Los Angeles is a place that operates on hope and there is still something pure about that. It helps one see through the dirty air. Vegas is different ... It operates on desire and on that road is ultimate heartbreak. --Michael Connelly (b. 1956) American author of detective novels. _The Narrows_, pp. 36-7 [2004] I'd move to Los Angeles if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed up by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe, and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. --Russell Crowe (b. 1964) New Zealand-born film actor. Quoted in Geoff Tibballs _The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners_, p. 89 [2004]. Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his rink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied. --Carol Muske-Dukes (b. 1945) American poet. _The New York Times Book Review_ [1995] I had been warned many times by American friends that I must expect to find a mushroom town filled to overflowing with exquisitely beautiful young ladies. My first impression was that Los Angeles is a toadstool town filled to overflowing with centenarians ... I discovered afterwards, of course, that these are the Middle-Westerners, who have come to Los Angeles to die and find that it is a good deal harder than they expected. --A. G. Macdonell (18951941) Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster. _A Visit to America_ [1935] - Los Angeles is famous for three things: first as a city where more suckers are strung, and more wallets are extracted than in any other city of like size in America. Second as a city where the marriage relation is made ridiculous and where sex-stimulation is at the maximum. Third as a city where there are more religious vagaries, more cults and isms, more psychic manifestations and delusions, more commericialized miracles, and more flagrant deceptions in the name of the gentle child Jesus, than in any other city, possibly, in the entire world. Los Angeles is fertile soil for every kind of imposter that the face of the earth has been cursed by. The suckers all come here sooner or later, and the whole twelve months is open season. --_Bob Schuler's Magazine_, c. 1925, quoted in H. L. Mencken, _Americana_ [1925]. - It is hereby earnestly proposed that the U.S.A. would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in the charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective. --Westbrook Pegler (18841969) American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and war correspondent. In the "New York World Telegram" [22 November 1938]. The violet hush of twilight was descending over Los Angeles as my hostess, Violet Hush, and I left the suburbs headed toward Hollywood. In the distance a glow of huge piles of burning motion-picture scripts lit up the sky. The crisp tang of frying writers and directors whetted my appetite. How good it was to be alive, I thought, inhaling deep lungfuls of carbon monoxide. --S.J. Perelman (19041979) American humorist and author. _Strictly from Hunger_ [1937] - Paradise, with a lobotomy. --Neil Simon (b. 1927) American playwright. _California Suite_ [1976 play] When it's 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When it's 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are six million interesting people in New York and 72 in Los Angeles. --Neil Simon (b. 1927) American playwright. Quoted in "The Reader's Digest" [1995]. - - Being a newspaperman myself, I think I understand this evidently irresistible urge that Eastern journalists have to throw another cliche at Los Angeles. They are sent out here on expense accounts to write stories that will please their editors, and their editors want to be told that Los Angeles is a dreadful place, so they will feel better about living in New York or Boston or Philadelphia, especially in February. The reporter settles into the Beverly Hills Hotel in an ambience of cantaloupe and is taken out to Malibu on his first night to a freestyle moonlit party where he is intoxicated by palatable California wines and surprisingly literate and friendly natives, including relays of suntanned beach girls. The next morning he wakes up in his hotel room with his New England conscience and a hangover and feels guilty for having had such a wonderful time. He looks out his window and can't see the Empire State building and is homesick. He calls room service and orders a Bloody Mary to exorcise his anomie, and while waiting for it ... he pecks out a few hundred words to reassure the folks back home that Nathanael West was right that their correspondent is in the capital of kitsch at this very moment, wasting his talent away among Rotarians and retired chiropractors and mindless TV actresses in a plastic wasteland. --Jack Smith (19161996) American journalist, author, and newspaper columnist. _Jack Smith's L.A._ [1980] - Once in Los Angeles, they [midwestern retirees] discover the sunshine isn't enough. They get tired of oranges, even of avocado pears and passion fruit. Nothing happens. They don't know what to do with their time. ... What else is there? They watch the waves come in at Venice. There wasn't any ocean where most of them came from, but after you've seen one wave, you've seen them all. The same is true of the airplanes at Glendale. If only a plane would crash once in a while so they could watch the passengers being consumed in a 'holocaust of flame,' as the newspapers put it. But the planes never crash. --Nathaniel West [Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein] (19031940) American author and screenwriter. _The Day of the Locust_ [1939] . . see: "COMPETITION" see: "DEFEAT" see: "FAILURE" - "Better finish our chess-game," I said. "Your move." I had forgotten my elegant trap, took me as long to remember what it was as it took her to consider her position and move. She did not make the pawn advance that was essential for her survival. I was sad and delighted. At least she would see my marvelous satin trap spring shut. That's what learning is, after all, I thought, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Even so, part of me stayed sad for her. My queen moved and lifted her knight from the board, even though the knight was guarded. Now her pawn would take my queen, for the sacrifice. Go ahead and take the queen, you little devil, enjoy it while you can. Her pawn did not take my queen. Instead, after a moment, her bishop flew from one corner of the board to the other, her night-blue eyes watched mine for response. "Checkmate," she whispered. I turned to ash, unbelieving. Then studied what she had done, reached for my notebook and wrote half a page. "What did you write?" "A nice new thought," I said. "That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." --Richard Bach (b. 1936) American writer. _The Bridge Across Forever_, ch. 15 [1984] - 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 (18351902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. In Robert Andrews _The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 156 [1987]. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 85 [1886]. The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away from us by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we can not say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words ..._, LII [1821 ed.] [Of the 1988 primaries.] I was told that people did not like negative ads. So I didn't run any. I lost. --Bob Dole (b. 1923) Republican senator and majority leader and unsuccesful candidate in the 1996 presidential election. Quoted in "Daily Herald" (Chicago) [23 February 2000]. You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. --Lou Holtz (b. 1937) American football coach. _Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame_ [1989] The cheerful loser is the winner. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _A Thousand and One Epigrams_ [1911] We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. --attributed to Vince Lombardi (19131970) American football player and coach of the Green Bay Packers. He led the Packers to five NFL championships including two Super Bowl victories. People have started asking me if we've got any talent on this team. Well, I tell them, if we start winning games we'll have talent. But since we're getting beat to death, no, we don't. --Joe Namath (b. 1943) American football player. In Rick Telander _Joe Namath and the Other Guys_ [1976]. What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind. How true that is. --Dan Quayle (b. 1947) Vice-President of the United States [19891993]. Speech to United Negro College Fund, Washington, D.C. [9 May 1989]. Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people. --Nido Qubein (b. 1948) Lebanon-born American motivational speaker. Quoted in Lloyd H. Whitling _Reality 101: Facts That Can Change Your Life_, p. v [2002]. For when the Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks not that you won or lost But how you played the game. --Grantland Rice (18801954) American sports writer. "Alumnus Football" [1941] Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. --Robert H. Schuller (b. 1926) American televangelist. _Power Thoughts_ [1993] Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerily seek how to redress their harms. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Henry VI, Part 3_, IV, iv [1590-91] Though last not least. --Edmund Spenser (1552/531599) English poet. _Colin Clouts Come Home Again_ [1595] Someone asked me, as I came in, down on the street, how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician. Commenting on his defeat in the presidential election [5 November 1952]. The people have spoken the bastards! --Dick Tuck (b. 1924) American political consultant. After losing his campaign for the California state legislature. Quoted in "Time" [13 August 1973]. Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. "Worth While", st. I [c. 1893] - Let others cheer the winning man, There's one I hold worth while; 'Tis he who does the best he can, Then loses with a smile. Beaten he is, but not to stay Down with the rank and file; That man will win some other day, Who loses with a smile. --anon. In the late 60s, Mad magazine had a quip about life insurance being a gamble in which you lose if you win, and win if you lose. ;void(0)) LOUISIANA . . see: "PLACES" for related links In Louisiana, the live-oak is the king of the forest, and the magnolia is its queen; and there is nothing more delightful to one who is fond of the country than to sit under them on a clear, calm spring morning like this. --Joseph Jefferson (18291905) American actor. _The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson_ [1917 ed.] As a society, we're a banana republic. What we ought to do is declare bankruptcy, secede from the union and declare ourselves a banana republic and file for foreign aid. We're just about as illiterate and as progressive as a Latin American country. --Kevin Reilly (b. 1937) American computer scientist. 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