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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 HUSBANDS INFIDELITY KISSING LEAVING LOVE MARRIAGE MEN & WOMEN MOVING ON PARTING, PASSION PROPOSALS RELATIONSHIPS REUNIONS ROMANCE SEX WEDDINGS WIDOWS WIVES YOUNG LOVE  ;void(0)) LOYALTY . . . LOYALTY see: "CHARACTER" see: "FAITHFULNESS" 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] (18641945) British political hostess. "Lay Sermons" [1927] He that is not with me is against me. --Bible "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] (19082004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] - Blood follows blood. --Daniel Defoe (16601731) English novelist and journalist. 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 (18951970) English military historian. _Why Don't We Learn from History?_ "Blinding Loyalties" [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 Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ "Intermission" [1973] We pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. "Memorial Day Address" Keene, N.H. [30 May 1884]. He has every characteristic of a dog except loyalty. --Sam Houston (17931863) President of the Republic of Texas. Quoted in Leon A. Harris _The Fine Art of Political Wit_ [1964]. I don't want loyalty. I want *loyalty*. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket. --Lyndon B. Johnson (19081973) American Democratic statesman, President [19631969]. Quoted in David Halberstam _The Best and the Brightest_ [1972]. Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidences. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Maxims_ #264 [1665], tr. Louis Kronenberger [1959] Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will; And around the dear ruin, each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still! --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. "Believe me, if all those Endearing Young Charms" When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. --Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (2379) Roman statesman and scholar. _Natural History_ bk. 8 Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. Blood's thicker than water. --Allan Ramsay (16861758) Scottish poet, playwright, and publisher. _A Collection of Scots Proverbs_ [1737] I entirely appreciate loyalty to one's friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In Hermann Hagedorn and Sidney Wallach _A Theodore Roosevelt Round-Up_ "Signposts for Americans: Random Thoughts" [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 (18201891) American Union general. In 1864, quoted in 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 (18201891) American Union general. Letter to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant [10 March 1864], in _Memoirs_ [1875]. - My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or to its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_, ch. 13 [1889] Stand by your man. --Tammy Wynette (1942 ) American country singer. [1968 song] written with Billy Sherrill. -- TRIVIA: Giles Perrerin saw 797 consecutive USC Trojan games from 1926 until he died in the parking lot of a game in 1998 at age 91. ----- 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 (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Horseshoes have a way of bringing you luck even when you don't believe in them. --Niels Bohr (18851962) Danish physicist. Quoted in "New Scientist" (mag.) [3 June 1976] You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all. --dialogue, Marlon Brando speaking in, "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1951 film]. - Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 73. Diligence is the mother of good fortune. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. ii. Ch. 43. [1605-1615] & see: Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God giveth all things to industry. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. "Poor Richard's Maxims" quoted in _Oxford Magazine_ [vol. I, 1768] - Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. _The Malakand Field Force_, ch. 3 [1898] ^ Jean Cocteau (18891963) 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 Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ [Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), while holding a gun to a bank robber's head:] I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? --"Dirty Harry" [1971] Screenplay by Harry Julian Fink. 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 (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Essays XVII [1860] 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 (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. In his _Autobiography_ [1798]. Care and diligence bring luck. --Thomas Fuller (16541734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] ^ J. Paul Getty (18921976) 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 Andrι 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 (18691944) 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 (19021994) English-born American lawyer. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [October 1984]. Luck is the residue of design. --Branch Rickey (18811965) American baseball executive. Quoted 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 (15611595) English poet and martyr. _I Envy Not Their Hap_ ----- bonanza (noun) [bκ-'nζn-zκ] 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. propitious pruh-PISH-uhs, adjective: 1. Presenting favorable circumstances or conditions. 2. Favorably inclined; gracious; benevolent. 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) ['tζ-liz-mκn] 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 Long Island represents the American's idea of what God would have done with Nature if he'd had the money. --Peter Fleming (19071971) English travel writer. Letter to Rupert Fleming [29 September 1929]. In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries. --John Galbraith (19082006) American economist. _The Affluent Society_ [1958] Another ingredient for a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first. And still another: See to it that she has her own desk, then keep your hands off it! And another, in a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once! --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] Economy, the poor man's mint extravagance, the rich man's pitfall. --Martin Farquhar Tupper (18101889) 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-bκ-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] ;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 baby was ripped from her belly and crushed to death. --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930 ) _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 Holliday, 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 - LEGACY | LEARNING | 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 Reviews | |
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