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;void(0)) . . . MISTAKEN IDENTITY see "MISTAKES" for related links ^ I [David Brinkley] was in a railroad station and a nice, gray-haired lady came over to me and said, 'Aren't you Chet Huntley?' I said yes, partly because it didn't make any difference. We were like twins, almost. And she said, 'I think you were very good, but I cannot stand that idiot, Brinkley.' --David Brinkley (19202003) American television newscaster. In Brian Lamb _Booknotes: Stories From American History_ [2001]. ^ ^ Franz Joseph (18301916), Emperor of Austria [18481916]. The emperor was basically a simple man. On one occasion he and two companions were out hunting near Bad Ischl in Austria, dressed in hunting clothes. A passing peasant stopped his cart to offer them a lift. As they were some way from the lodge, they accepted and soon fell into conversation with their benefactor. The peasant asked one his passengers who he was. 'The king of Saxony,' was the supercilious reply. The peasant nodded and asked the next man the same question. 'The king of Bavaria,' said the second passenger. 'And you?' said the peasant, indicating Francis Joseph, 'I suppose you are the emperor of Austria?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^ On a train journey in the American Midwest, Schweitzer was approached by two ladies. "Have we the honor of speaking to Professor Einstein?" they asked. "No, unfortunately not," replied Schweitzer, "though I can quite understand your mistake, for he has the same kind of hair as I have." He paused to rumple his hair. "But inside, my head is altogether different. However, he is a very old friend of mine would you like me to give you his autograph?" Taking a slip of paper from his pocket he wrote: "Albert Einstein, by way of his friend, Albert Schweitzer." --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000] ^ At the London airport a few years ago I was interviewed for 10 minutes before I discoved the interviewer thought I was Tallulah Bankhead. And Miss Bankhead had already been dead for three months if you can believe the "New York Times." --Gloria Swanson [Gloria May Josephine Svensson] (18971983) American motion-picture, stage and television actress. Quoted in "American Way" magazine [June 1973].  ;void(0)) MISUNDERSTOOD . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links ^ No๋l Coward (18991973) British playwright, actor, and wit. The American writer Barnaby Conrad was badly gored in a bullfight in Spain in 1958. The columnist Leonard Lyons recorded a subsequent conversation between Eva Gabor and No๋l Coward at a New York restaurant. 'No๋l dahling,' said Eva, 'have you heard the news about poor Bahnaby? He vass terribly gored in Spain.' 'He was *what*?' asked Coward in alarm. 'He vass gored!' 'Thank heavens. I thought you said he was bored.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. --Clarence Darrow (18571938) American lawyer. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. - 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays: First Series_ [1841] "Self-Reliance" The curse to be misunderstood by our fellow-creatures falls on all who are in advance of their age. --Robert Franz (18151892) German composer. Unpublished mss., in Ida Marie Lipsius _Thoughts of Great Musicians_. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Elective Affinities_ [1809], bk. II, ch. 4 I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. --Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman at one of his regular noon briefings during the worst days of the Vietnam War, according to Marvin Kalb in _TV Guide_ [31 March 1984]. Kalb says this sage bit of advice has since been immortalized on the door to the press booth at the State Department. Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think you do not use me with that affability as in discretion you ought to use me... --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Henry V_ [15981599] ^ Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18091892) British poet, poet laureate [18501892] Tennyson was entertaining a Russian nobleman on his house on the Isle of Wight. One morning the Russian set off on a shooting expedition, returning later that day with the proud news that he had shot two peasants. Tennyson politely corrected his guest's pronunciation: 'You mean two pheasants,' he said. 'No,' replied the Russian,' 'two peasants. They were insolent, so I shot them.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are not worth understanding. --Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (18181883) Russian novelist, poet, and playwright. _Rudin_ [1856], Chapter 5 - Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were having breakfast at the White House. The attractive waitress asks Cheney what he would like, and he replies, "I'd like a bowl of oatmeal and some fruit." "And what can I get for you, Mr. President?" George W. replies with his trademark wink and slight grin, "How about a quickie this morning?" "Why, Mr. President!" the waitress exclaims "How rude! You're starting to act like Mr. Clinton, and you've only been in your second term of office for a year!" As the waitress storms away, Cheney leans over to Bush and whispers..."It's pronounced 'quiche'." ----- imbroglio [im-BROHL-yoh], noun: 1. A complicated and embarrassing state of things. 2. A confused or complicated disagreement or misunderstanding. 3. An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction. 4. A confused mass; a tangle. recondite [REK-un-dyt], adjective: 1. Difficult to understand; abstruse. 2. Concerned with obscure subject matter. And his fondness for stopping his readers short in their tracks with evidence of his recondite vocabulary is wonderfully irritating. --"Books of the Times," _New York Times_, [23 February 1951] ;void(0)) MOB . . see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" see "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, . . . but. . . to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty and teeming with danger. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ 1, 452 [1823] 'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _The Pickwick Papers_ [1837] A mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. - The mob is a man vouluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Compensation" _Essays: First Series_ [1841] If the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Society and Solitude_ [1870], "Eloquence" - A Mob's a Monster; Heads enough, but no Brains. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [November 1747] The professional moralists who inveigh against drunkenness are strangely silent about the equally disgusting vice of herd-intoxication of downward transcendence into sub-humanity by the process of getting together into a mob. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. Everyman has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. --D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (18851930) English novelist and poet. [In 1929.] The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. --Jane Porter (17761850) Scottish novelist. When an unorganized mob runs amok, intimidates people and steals their possessions without regard for their property rights, it's called looting. When an organized mob runs amok, intimidates people and steals their possessions without regard for their property rights, it's called government. --Garry Reed A swarm of gnats will overpower an elephant. --Sa'di [Muslih-uddin] (c. 11841291?) Iranian poet. _The Gulistan, or Rose Garden_ (story 28) [A.D. 1258] tr. Edward Rehatsek [1964] . . see "SUCCESS" for related links To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. --Augustine, St. of Hippo (354430) Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396430]. _On the Good of Marriage_ [401] I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.' --Tallulah Bankhead (19031968) American actress. _Tallulah_ [1952] The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. --William Blake (17571827) English poet. "The Marriage of Heaven and Earth" [1790-1793?] To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Moderation in all things. --Cleobulus (6th cent. B.C.) Greek philosopher. Moderation has been made a virtue in order to curb the ambition of the great, and also to console those who are mediocre in either fortune or merit. --Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. "Maxims: 308" He knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. Writing about John Hampden, an English statesman killed in battle. The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all. --Maurice Maeterlinck (18621949) Belgium poet and playwright. Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave-- but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. --Robert Orben (1927 ) American magician and comedy writer. A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. --Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (17371809) English-American writer and political pamphleteer. _The Rights of Man_ [1792] 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess. --John Selden (15841654) English historian. _Table Talk_ [1689] Moderation in all things. --Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190159 BC) Roman comic dramatist. _Andria_ (The Lady of Andros) l. 61 I don't believe in women thinking too much. Women should think in moderation, as they should do all things in moderation --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _A Woman of No Importance_ [1893] Nothing in excess. --anon., inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and variously ascribed to the Seven Wise Men - ODTQ ----- modicum [MOD-ih-kum], noun: A small or moderate or token amount. Synonyms: trace, hint . . see: "CHANGE" ----- misoneism (noun) [mi-s๊-'nee-i-z๊m] Fear of novelty, newness or innovation. misoneistic (adj.) neoteric (adj.) [nee-๊-'ter-ik] Of recent origin; modern. . . see "CHARACTER" for related links Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own. --Isaac Barrow (16301677) English classical scholar, theologian, and mathematician who was a teacher of Isaac Newton. Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. --Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827) German composer. - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. --Bible "Proverbs" 27:2 A beautiful woman lacking discretion and modesty is like a fine gold ring in a pig's snout. --Bible "Proverbs" 11:22 TLB - Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about! --Fr้d้ric Chopin (18101849) Polish composer. A modest man who has a good deal to be modest about. (Of Clement Attlee.) --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. In "Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books" [27 June 1954]. For me, the worst thing about having King Kong walk down your street is that kids could look up and see the giant genitalia. --Jack Handey (1949 ) American comedian and comedy writer. _The Lost Deep Thoughts_ [1998] When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' --Joseph Heller (19231999) American novelist. Shortly after the battleship vote, in warm May weather, the President led [French Ambassador] Jusserand, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, and three other hikers on a strenuous, cliff-hanging expedition along the Virginia side of the Potomac, near Chain Bridge. When all were pouring with perspiration, Roosevelt suggested a swim, and stripped naked. His party followed suit, but Jusserand absentmindedly kept on his black kid climbing gloves. "Eh, Mr. Ambassador," Roosevelt called from the water's edge, "have you not forgotten something?" Jusserand shouted back, "We might meet ladies." --Edmund Morris (1940 ) Kenyan-born American biographer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. _Theodore Rex_ [May 1908] Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (17121778) French philosopher and novelist. But I'm not a bit like Sybil. I'm not a bit like any of the parts I've played, I don't think. I don't know who the hell I am, really. Somebody is trying to write a biography of me, and I keep saying 'Why do you want to do that?' One of the main reasons I wanted to be an actress was that it gave me a chance to play people infinitely more interesting than I am and to say things infinitely more intelligent and amusing than I could ever say. --Prunella Scales (1932 ) British actress. With people of only moderate ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "Studies in Pessimism Further Psychological Observations" _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851] I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty . . . But I am too busy thinking about myself. --Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964) British poet and critic. As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. --William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) English novelist. - A modest young girl I'll call Oola Once donned a grass skirt to dance Hula A cow ate the grass Exposing her ass Now she's no longer modest but coola. --anon. -- TRIVIA: re *Modesto* CA (Spanish meaning 'modest, modest man.') In 1870 the namers intended to name the town for W. C. Ralston, San Francisco financier. Refusing, he was credited with modesty, and the present name was thus given. --George R. Stewart _American Place-Names_ end page | MACARTHUR (DOUGLAS) - MALICE | MAN - MARINES | MARRIAGE | MARTYRS - MAUGHAM (WILLIAM SOMERSET) | MAXIMS - MEANNESS | MEDICINE - MEMORIAL DAY | MEMORIES - MEMORY | MEN - MEN v. WOMEN | MENTAL ILLNESS - MILK | MIND (THE) - MISERY | MISFORTUNE - MISSOURI | MISTAKES | MISTAKEN IDENTITY - MODESTY | MONEY | MONROE - MOON | MORAL ASSASINATION - MORALITY | MORNING - MOUNTAINS | MOVIE DIALOGUE - MUSHROOMS | MUSIC - MYTHOLOGY | | 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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