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. . . LOVE & MARRIAGE (LINKS ONLY) ABSENCE ADMIRATION AFFAIRS, AFFECTION ANNIVERSARIES BABIES BREAKING UP CHILDBIRTH COMMITMENT COURTSHIP DATING DEDICATION DESIRE DIVORCE DUMPED (BEING) FAITHFULNESS FLIRTING GOOD BYE HEARTBREAK INFIDELITY KISSING LEAVING LOVE MARRIAGE MEN & WOMEN MOVING ON PARTING, PASSION PREGNANCY PROPOSALS RELATIONSHIPS REUNIONS ROMANCE SEX WEDDINGS WIDOWS WIVES YOUNG LOVE  ;void(0)) LOYALTY . . . LOYALTY see "CHARACTER" see "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links I may be wrong, but I have never found deserting friends conciliates enemies. --Margot Asquith [Emma Alice Margaret Asquith] (1864-1945), British political hostess, "Lay Sermons" [1927] He that is not with me is against me. --Bible, New Testament, Luke 11:23 - When the slavery issue came to a boil, [Robert E.] Lee made it quite clear where he stood. He freed his own slaves and wrote, 'Slavery is a moral and political evil in any society, a greater evil to the white man than the black.' There are some problems of conscience, however, that cannot be so cleanly solved, and when the war started Lee faced an acute moral conflict. It was always a shock to recall that Lincoln offered him the command of the *Northern* forces. He could have taken it on principle because he firmly believed that secession was unconstitutional. But through five generations all his loyalties and affections were with Virginia. He spent a day and a night pacing around the bedroom of his house and looking down the slope of the hill that is the last short stretch of Virgina before the Potamac River and the North begins. At the end of this agony, he came downstairs and wrote a letter to his son, in which he said he believed in the Union and could 'anticipate no greater calamity' than its dissolution. 'Still, a union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets . . . has no charm for me [and] if the Union is disssolved . . . I shall return to my native state and, save in defense, will draw my sword no more.' --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908-2004) British-born American broadcaster and journalist, _America_ [1973] - Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency. --B.H. Liddell Hart (1895-1970) English military historian, "Blinding Loyalties" _Why Don't We Learn from History?_ [1944] The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty." Whenever these two concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed. --Robert A(nson) Heinlein (1907-1988) American science-fiction writer Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidences. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French educator and social reformer, _Maxims_ #264 [1665], tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959] When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. --Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (23-79) Roman statesman and scholar, _Natural History_ bk. 8 Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. --Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet. I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909]. In Hermann Hagedorn and Sidney Wallach "Signposts for Americans: Random Thoughts" _A Theodore Roosevelt Round-Up_ [1958]. - [Grant] stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other always. --William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American Union general, in 1864, Geoffrey C. Ward _The Civil War_ [1991] I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come--if alive. --William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American Union general, letter to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant [10 March 1864], in _Memoirs_ [1875] - Stand by your man. --Tammy Wynette (1942- ) American country singer, [1968 song] with Billy Sherrill ----- myrmidon MUR-muh-don; -dun, noun: A loyal follower, especially one who executes orders without question, protest, or pity. Ety: Members of a warlike Thessalian people who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy. Ex.: Those who created EMU [(European) Economic and Monetary Union]--mainly politicians and their myrmidons in the offices and conference rooms of Brussels--portray a beckoning landscape of wealth, liberty and economic power that will rival the United States and surpass Asia. --James O. Jackson, "The One-Way Bridge," _Time_, [11 May 1998] stalwart (adj.) 1. Dependable and loyal 2. Strong and sturdy hard-working loyal supporter: somebody who is faithful, dependable, and hard-working . . see: "CHANCE" see: "FATE" see "ACTIONS" for other related links Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615] Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 73. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. --Winston Churchill (1874—1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955]. _The Malakand Field Force_ [1898] ^ Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French writer, artist, and occasional film director. Cocteau was once asked if he believed in luck. "Of course," he replied. "How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?" --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: It was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or, it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of this deed, and, by looking narrowly, you shall see there was no luck in the matter, but it was all a problem in arithmetic, or an experiment in chemistry. The curve of the flight of the moth is preordained, and all things go by number, rule, and weight. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. Essays XVII [1860] - Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. In his _Autobiography_ [1798]. - Care and diligence bring luck. --Thomas Fuller (1654—1734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] ^ J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) American oil executive and art collector. Getty once received a request from a magazine for a short article explaining his success. A check for two hundred pounds was enclosed. The multimillionaire obligingly wrote, 'Some people find oil. Others don't.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ A person in good health in a Western liberal democracy is, in terms of his objective circumstances, one of the most fortunate human beings ever to have walked the surface of the earth. --John Lanchester, "Pursuing happiness," _The New Yorker_ [27 February 2006] I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. --Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944) Canadian humorist. The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as in playing a poor hand well. --H. T. Leslie Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. . . . You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. --Louis Nizer (1902—1994) English-born American lawyer. Luck is the residue of design. --Branch Rickey (1881—1965) American baseball executive. In Howard Cosell _Like It Is_ [1974]. Luck is what happens, when the preparation meets the opportunity. --attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca among others. When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. --Robert Southwell (1561—1595) English poet and martyr. _I Envy Not Their Hap_ ----- bonanza (noun) [bê-'næn-zê] 1 An unexpectedly rich pocket of ore in a mine, a mother lode 2 an unexpectedly great supply of anything, as to find a beach with a bonanza of sea shells. providential [prov-uh-DEN(T)-shuhl], adjective: 1. Of or resulting from divine direction or superintendence. 2. Occurring through or as if through divine intervention; peculiarly fortunate or appropriate. serendipity [ser-uhn-DIP-uh-tee], noun: The faculty or phenomenon of making fortunate accidental discoveries. supernal [soo-PUR-nuhl], adjective: 1. Being in or coming from the heavens or a higher place or region. 2. Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly. talisman (noun) ['tæ-liz-mên] An object with magic apotropaic powers, a charm to ward off evil and attract good fortune. A talisman may take almost any form but an amulet is a charm worn around the neck to protect against evil and misfortune. ;void(0)) LUXURY . . see "MONEY" for related links In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries. --John Galbraith (1908-2006) American economist. _The Affluent Society_ [1958] Economy, the poor man's mint— extravagance, the rich man's pitfall. --Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) English writer. In _The Complete Poetical Works of Martin Farquhar_, p. 222 [1850]. ----- posh (adj.) [posh or pahsh] Fashionably luxurious, superbly appointed. Sybarite (noun) ['si-bê-rIt] Someone who wallows in luxury; a voluptuary with no ambition beyond self-indulgence. Etymology: Sybaris was a city of Magna Graecia located in southern Italy on the Gulf of Taranto. It was founded in 720 B.C. by settlers from Greek Peloponnesus (Argolis) and grew to be very prosperous and known for its luxurious life style until it destroyed by neighboring Crotona in 510 B.C. voluptuary vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee, noun: A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist. adjective: Voluptuous; luxurious. Ex.: Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life. --Michiko Kakutani, "Cleopatra Behind Her Magic Mirror" _New York Times_ [5 June 1990] . . see "DECEPTION" for related links see: "IMMORALITY" There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some excitement. He rushed down towards the village calling out "Wolf, Wolf,"and the villagers came out to meet him, and some of them stopped with him for a considerable time. This pleased the boy so much that a few days afterwards he tried the same trick, and again the villagers came to his help. But shortly after this a Wolf actually did come out from the forest, and began to worry the sheep, and the boy of course cried out "Wolf, Wolf," still louder than before. But this time the villagers, who had been fooled twice before, thought the boy was again deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come to his help. So the Wolf made a good meal off the boy’s flock, and when the boy complained, the wise man of the village said: "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." --Æsop (c.620 B.C.-c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Æsop's Fables_ All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth. --Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. --Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia 1862-1890. He unified Germany with a series of successful wars and became the first Chancellor 1871-1890 of the German Empire. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. --Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. _The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ch. 19, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907]. The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying- lying to others and to yourself. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer. The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible. --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer. _Aphorisms_ [1880-1905], tr. David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder [1994] Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American philosopher and poet. I loathe like Hell's Gates the man who thinks one thing and says another. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Iliad_ The punishment of the liar is that he eventually believes his own lies. --Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard_ p. 47, comp., Elbert Hubbard II [1927] - Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and that exercise will make them habitual. ...Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and president [1801-1809]. Letter to Peter Carr [19 August 1785], in _Thomas Jefferson: Writings_ The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and president [1801-1809]. - Boys, I may not know much, but I know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad. --Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American Democratic statesman, President [1963-1969]. {When asked (as majority leader) if he took seriously a particular speech by Vice President . In David Halberstam _The Best and the Brightest_[1972] - Q}. I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. --Janis Joplin (1943-1970) American singer. The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. --Stephen King (1947- ) American author known for horror novels. Lying is a hateful and accursed vice. We have no other tie upon one another, but our word. If we did but discover the horror and consequence of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) French moralist and essayist. 144. Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is _half way_ to Lying, as Lying, _the whole way to Hell._ --William Penn (1644-1718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe {E.B.}. _Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims_ [1682] [_italics_ by Penn] The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. --Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618) English explorer and courtier. People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders ones reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person ones master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that personas view requires to be faked. And if one gains the immediate purpose of the lie--the price one pays is the destruction that which the gain was intended to serve. The man who lies to the world, is the worlds slave from then on. --Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American writer. _Atlas Shrugged_ [1957] I would offend with the truth then please with adulation. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. - No legacy is so rich as honesty. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _All's Well That Ends Well_ [1602-1604] Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done. --William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist. _Richard II_ [1595] - The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] The cruelest lies are often told in silence. --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. Title essay "Virginibus Puerisque" [1881]. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. - If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. The principle difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 68 (epigraph) - A man is justified in lying to protect the honor of a woman or to promote public policy. --Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American Democratic statesman and President [1913-1921]. December 1912 remark to Col. Edward House, in Thomas A Bailey _Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George Washington to the Present_ [1966]. ----- mendacious (adj. [men-'dey-shês ] A Latinate form for "lying" or "untruthful." ;void(0)) . . see "EVIL" for related links - As late as 1930, twenty-one lynching deaths were recorded; twenty of the victims were black. In one case, at Ocilla, Georgia, the victim suffered incredible torture: "His toes were cut off joint by joint. His fingers were similarly removed, and his teeth extracted with wire pliers." After more mutilation, the man was soaked with gasoline and set on fire; as thousands of people watched, his body was also pumped full of bullets. This was no isolated case: dozens of blacks were tortured, burned, mutilated; and about the time of the First World War, a pregnant black woman in Georgia who protested against the lynching of her husband was herself murdered by a mob, tortured and burned; the bady was ripped from her belly and crushed to death. --Lawrence M. Friedman _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 5 "Race Relations and Civil Liberties" p. 118 - Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black body swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant south The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh And the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop. --"Strange Fruit" [1939 song] sung by Billie Holiday, music and lyrics by Abel Meeropol (pen name Lewis Allan) end page | KARMA - KENTUCKY | KINDNESS | KILL - KU KLUX KLAN | KNOWLEDGE | LABELS - LAS VEGAS | LANGUAGE | LATIN - LAUGHTER | LAW (THE) - LAWYERS | LAZINESS - LEGACIES | LEISURE - LIBERALS | LIBERTY - LIES | LIFE | LIFESTYLE - LIMITATIONS | LINCOLN (ABRAHAM) - LITTERING | LIVE - LONDON | LONELINESS - LOUISIANA | LOVE - PAGE 1 (A-L) | LOVE - PAGE 2 (M-Z) | LOVE & MARRIAGE - LYNCHING | | H | I - J | K - L | M | N - O | P - Q | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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