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;void(0)) . . . NAVY see: "WAR & PEACE" for related links Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers, and the lash. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55]. In Harold Nicolson, diary [17 August 1950]. [During the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864:] Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. --David [Glasgow] Farragut (18011870) Amercan admiral who achieved fame for his Union naval victories during the American Civil War [1861-65]; the ranks of vice-admiral and admiral were created for him. Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men: We always are ready; Steady, boys, steady; We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. --David Garrick (17171779) English actor-manager. "Heart of Oak" [1759 song] [As his ship was sinking [23 September 1779], having been asked whether he had lowered his flag:] I have not yet begun to fight. --John Paul Jones (17471792) American admiral. Attributed in John Henry Sherburne _Life and Character of ... John Paul Jones_ [1825]. Whatever happens, the United States Navy is not going to be caught napping. --Frank Knox (18741944) American Secretary of the Navy 19401944. Attributed comment [4 December 1941]. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. _The History of England_, vol. I, ch. III [1849-61] No matter what the atomic age brings, America will always need sailors and ships and shipborne aircraft to preserve her liberty, her communications with the free world, even her existence. If the deadly missiles with their apocalyptic warheads are ever launched at America, the Navy will still be out on blue water fighting for her, and the nation or alliance that survives will be the one that retains command of the oceans. --Samuel Eliot Morison (18871976) American historian, author and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. _The Two-Ocean War_ [1963] - Don't give up the ship. --Oliver Hazard Perry (17851819) American naval officer. (Words inscribed on his battle flag at the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Perry took these words from Captain James Lawrence, who is believed to have uttered them after being mortally wounded in an engagement between his ship, "Chesapeake," and the British frigate "Shannon" off Boston Harbor, June 1, 1813 GBAQ.) We have met the enemy and they are ours. --Oliver Hazard Perry (17851819) American naval officer. Message to William Henry Harrison announcing American victory over the British at the naval battle of Lake Erie [10 September 1813]. - We need to keep in a condition of preparedness, especially as regards our navy, not because we want war, but because we desire to stand with those whose plea for peace is listened to with respectful attention. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In a speech in New York City [11 November 1902]. I saw the new Italian navy. Its boats have glass bottoms so they can see the old Italian navy. --Peter F. Secchia (b. 1937) American ambassador to Italy [1989-93]. Quoted in "Newsweek" [1990].  ;void(0)) NAZI GERMANY . . see: "GERMANY" see: "HITLER" see: "HOLOCAUST" see: "WORLD WAR II" see: "EVIL" for other related links My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds. --Neville Chamberlain (18691940) British Conservative politician, Prime Minister [1937-40]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 825 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: Speaking to cheering crowds from a first-floor window of 10 Downing Street after his return from Munich, 1 Oct. 1938. The sense of relief was shared in France, where a crowd of half a million turned out to welcome Daladier back from Germany. The phrase 'peace for our time' seems to be based on words in the Order of Morning Prayer in the Anglican liturgy: 'Give peace in our time, 0 Lord.' - Our Constitution is the will of the Fuehrer. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. "Voelkischer Beobachter" [20 May 1936] A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. --Hans Frank (19001946) German politician and lawyer who served as govenor-general of Poland during WWII. "France et. al. v. Goering et. al.", (Intl Mil. Trib. 1946). - - We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. Speech in Berlin [17 January 1936]. I think it is imperative to give the Jews certain public parks, not the best ones, and tell them: 'You may sit on these benches.' These benches shall be marked 'For Jews only'. Besides that they have no business in German parks. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. [12 November 1938]. Quoted in _Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression_ pub. by Office of United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington [1946]. It's a dirty, low thing to do for the Catholic Church to continue its subversive activity in every way possible and now even to extend its propaganda to Protestant children evacuated from the regions threatened by air raids. Next to the Jews these politico-divines are about the most loathsome riffraff that we are still sheltering in the Reich. The time will come after the war for an over-all solution of this problem. --Joseph Goebbels (18971945) German Nazi leader & minister of propaganda. _The Goebbels Diaries_, p. 146 [1948] - - Would you rather have butter or guns? ... Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. --Hermann Goering (18931946) German Nazi leader. Speech in Hamburg, Germany [1936]. I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a final solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. --Hermann Goering (18931946) German Nazi leader. Instructions to Reinhard Heydrich [31 July 1941]. - - Concentration camp is certainly, like any form of deprivation of liberty, a tough and strict measure. Hard, productive labor, a regular life, exceptional cleanliness in matters of daily life and personal hygiene, splendid food, strict but fair treatment, instruction in learning how to work again and how to learn the necessary crafts these are the methods of education. The motto which stands above these camps reads: there is a path to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, hard work, honesty, orderliness, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, self- sacrifice and love of the Fatherland. --Heinrich Himmler (19001945) German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander. (On 21 September 1939), quoted in B. F. Smith & A. E. Peterson _Heinrich Himmler_, p. 61 [1974]. We must exterminate these people root and branch. Just think how many people will never be born because of this, and how a people can be broken in nerve and spirit when such a plague gets hold of it. When someone in the Security Services, in the SS, or in the government has homosexual tendencies, he abandons the normal order of things for the perverted world of the homosexual. We can't permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated. --Heinrich Himmler (19001945) German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander. To his doctor Felix Kersten; in _The Kersten Memoirs_, p. 57 [1957]. - - Neither of the denominations - Catholic or Protestant, they are both the same - has any future left ... That won't stop me tearing up Christianity in Germany, root and branch. One is either a Christian or a German. You can't be both. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Quoted in Hermann Rauschning _Hitler Speaks_ [1939]. These boys join our organization at the age of ten ... and they will not be free again for the rest of their lives. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [4 December 1938], quoted in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 759 [2004]; Cohan & Major point out: Boys spent four years in the first of the Nazi youth organizations before graduating to the Hitler Youth, after which they were absorbed into the SA, the SS or the armed forces. Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr Brandt are entrusted with the responsibility of extending the rights of specially designated physicians, such that patients who are judged incurable after the most thorough review of their condition which is possible, can be granted mercy killing. --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. Authorization for the euthanasia of mentally handicapped people, late October 1939; quoted in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 831 [2004]. & see: If it is once accepted that people have the right to kill 'unproductive' fellow humans then as a *matter of principle* murder is permitted for all unproductive people, in other words for the incurably sick, the people who have become invalids through labor and war, for us all when we become old, frail and therefore unproductive ... Woe to mankind, woe to our German nation if God's holy commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' ... is not only broken, but if this transgression is actually tolerated and permitted to go unpunished. --Bishop of Munster, Cardinal Count August von Galen, sermon, [3 August 1941]. & see: I am quite sure that a man like the Bishop von Galen knows that after the war I shall exact retribution down to the last farthing. And, if he does not succeed in getting himself transferred, in the meanwhile, to the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, he may rest assured that in the balancing of our accounts no 'T' will remain uncrossed, no 'I' undotted! --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [4 July 1942], in _Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944_. - In Nazism we have a phenomenon which seems scarcely capable of subjection to rational analysis. Under a leader who talked in apocalyptic tones of world power or destruction and a regime founded on an utterly repulsive ideology of race-hatred, one of the most culturally and economically advanced countries of Europe planned for war, launched a world conflagration which killed around fifty million people, and perpetrated atrocities culminating in the mechanised mass murder of millions of Jews of a nature and scale as to defy imagination. Faced with Auschwitz, the explanatory powers of the historian seem puny indeed. --Sir Ian Kershaw (b. 1943) British historian. _The Nazi Dictatorship: Perspectives of Interpretation_ [3rd edn., 1993] Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, thats all. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. Letter, March 1939, to author Lawrence Durrell. Published in _The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-1980_ [1988]. Written shortly after the Nazis had marched into Czechoslovakia. I was a little shocked at the faces, especially those of the women, when Hitler finally appeared on the balcony for a moment. They reminded me of the crazed expressions I saw once in the back country of Louisiana on the faces of some Holy Rollers who were about to hit the trail. They looked up at him as if he were a Messiah, their faces transformed into something positively inhuman. --William L. Shirer (19041993) American journalist, historian, and novelist. _Berlin Diary_ [1941], p. 24 [4 September 1934]. In cinema theatres up & down the United Kingdom newsreels showing Adolf Hitler's troops rupturing the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by marching into the Rhineland were received with murmurs of approval, applause and even cheers as last week opened. Newsreels of Poilus marching up to defend the French frontier were almost everywhere received by Britons in silence. Inquiring reporters for Baron Beaverbrook stopped 5,000 citizens to ask: "Do you on the whole prefer the French or the Germans?" The answer, blazoned next day in London's Daily Express, was that 21% had no preference, 24% preferred the French and 55% preferred the Germans. --"Germans Preferred" _Time_ [23 March 1936] The shooting of the Jews is simpler than that of the Gypsies. One has to admit that the Jews go to their death composed they stand very calmly whereas the Gypsies cry, scream and move constantly while they already stand at the place of the shooting. Several even jump into the ditch and pretend to be dead. --Junior officer Hans-Dietrich Walther, report of 4 November 1941 on reprisal executions in Serbia; International Military Tribunal _Trial of the Major War Criminals_ v. II [1947] pp. 1139-40. The coloured triangles signify: red political prisoners green professional criminals black a-socials [who included gypsies] pink homosexuals violet Jehovah's Witnesses The Jewish prisoners wear no triangle, but the Star of David. --Rudolf Yrba and Alfred Wetzler, extract from their report on Auschwitz, about 28 April 1944, in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 831 [2004]. Cohan & Major add: Yrba and Wetzler escaped from the Auschwitz death camp on 10 April. Their report, based on their own experience as prisoners. gave the outside world the first hard confirmation of conditions inside the camp. It was published in the United States on 2 Nov. 1944, the same day that the Nazi order was given to begin destroying the Auschwitz crematoria. - In 1920, a prominent German lawyer, Karl Binding, and a distinguished German forensic psychiatrist, Alfred Hoche, wrote a brief but deadly book, "The Permission To Destroy Life Unworthy of Life". In his new book, "The Coming of the Third Reich" (Penguin), Richard Evans notes that Binding and Hoche emphasized that "the incurably ill and the mentally retarded were costing millions of marks and taking up thousands of much-needed hospital beds. So doctors should be allowed to put them to death." Then came Adolf Hitler, who thought this was a splendid, indeed capital, idea. The October 1, 2003, New York Daily News ran this Associated Press report from Berlin: "A new study reveals Nazi Germany killed at least 200,000 people because of their disabilitiespeople deemed physically inferior, said a report compiled by Germany's Federal Archive. Researchers found evidence that doctors and hospital staff used gas, drugs and starvation to kill disabled men, women and children at medical facilities in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. ... "The Nazis launched the drive to root out what they called 'worthless lives' [and 'useless eaters'] in the summer of 1939, pre-dating their full-scale organization of the Holocaust, in which they killed 6 million Jews." The more than 200,000 "worthless lives" terminated by the Nazis before the Holocaust included few Jews. Most of those killed were other Germans considered unfit to be included in "the master race." Among the defendants at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders and their primary accomplices in the mass murder were German doctors who had gone along with the official policy of euthanasia. An American doctor, Leo Alexander, who spoke German, had interviewed the German physician- defendants before the trials, and then served as an expert on the American staff at Nuremberg. In an article in the July 14, 1949, New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Alexander warned that the Nazis' crimes against humanity had "started from small beginnings ... merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived." [...] --Nat Hentoff (b. 1925) American journalist and author. "It's Not Only About Terri Schiavo" [7 October 2004] - ;void(0)) NEBRASKA . . see: "PLACES" for related links Omaha, Nebraska, was but a halting place on the road to Chicago, but it revealed to me horrors that I would not willingly have missed. The city to casual investigations seemed to be populated entirely by Germans, Poles, Slavs, Hungarians, Croats, Magyars, and all the scum of Eastern European States, but it must have been laid out by the Americans. No other people would cut the traffic of a main street with two streams of railway lines, each some eight or nine tracks wide, and cheerfully drive tramcars across the metals. Every now and again they have horrible railway crossing accidents at Omaha, but nobody seems to think of building an overhead bridge. That would interfere with the vested interests of the undertakers. --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. _American Notes_ [1891] Barns back east have weather vanes on them to show which way the wind is blowing, but out here there's no need. ... Farmers just look out the window to see which way the barn is leaning. Some farmers ... attach a logging chain to a stout pole. They can tell the wind direction by which way the chain is blowing. They don't worry about high wind until the chain starts whipping around and links begin snapping off. Then they know it's likely the wind will come up before morning. --Charles Kuralt (19341997) American journalist and broadcaster. _Dateline America_ [1979] In regard to this extensive section of the country, I do not hesitate in giving the opinion that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course uninhabitable by a people depending on agriculture for their subsistence. --Maj. Stephen H. Long, an early explorer of Nebraska [c. 1820s], quoted in James C. Olsen _History of Nebraska_ [1966]. We were at sea there is no other adequate expression on the plains of Nebraska. ... It was a world almost without a feature, an empty sky, an empty earth; front and back, the line of railway stretched from horizon to horizon, like a cue across a billiard-board; on either hand, the green plain ran till it touched the skirts of heaven. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _Across the Plains_ [1892] Hurrah for Greer county! The land of the free, The land of the bedbug, grassshopper and flea; I'll sing of its praises, I'll tell of its fame, While starving to death on my government claim. --Nebraska pioneer song [c. 1870s] . . see: "CHOICE" see: "DESIRE" see: "WISHING" I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. --John Adams (17351826) First VP and second President of the United States. _Letters to his Wife_: Vol. II, Letter #78 [1780] Necessity has no law. --Augustine, St. of Hippo (354430) Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396430]. _Soliloquiorum_ [c.410], "Animae ad Deum" ^ Tallulah Bankhead (19031968) American actress famous for her flamboyant life-style. (Former "Tonight" show host Jack Paar related the following Tallulah story. Miss Bankhead was in a stall in the ladies' room.) She could not find any toilet paper in her stall, and asked the lady in the next booth, 'Darling, is there any tissue in there?' 'Sorry, no.' 'Then have you any Kleenex?' 'Afraid not.' Then Tallulah said, 'My dear, have you two fives for a ten?' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. --attributed to both Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) and George Bernard Shaw (18561950). Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities. --attributed to Andrew Carnegie (18351919) American businessman and philanthropist of Scottish birth. The graveyards are full of indispensable men. --attributed to Charles de Gaulle (18901970) French soldier and statesman, President [1959-69]. Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [April 1735] Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --William Pitt, the Younger, (17591806) British prime minister [1783-1801, 1804-06]. Speech, House of Commons [18 November 1783]. Necessity is the only successful adviser. --Charles Reade (18141884) English novelist and playwright. Attributed in Charles Noel Douglas _Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical_, p. 34 [1917]. - Necessity is the mother of invention. --William Wycherley (c.16401716) English dramatist. _Love in a Wood_, III, 3 [1672] &: Necessity is the mother of invention. --Richard Franck (c. 16241708) English author. _Northern Memoirs_ [written 1658, printed 1694] - ------ de rigueur [duh ri-GUR], adjective: Strictly required, as by etiquette, usage, or fashion. requisite [REK-wuh-zit], adjective: 1. Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; indispensable. 2. That which is required or necessary; something indispensable. sine qua non [sin-ih-kwah-NON] noun: An essential condition or element; an indispensable thing. . . see: "DESIRE" see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. --John Adams (17351826) First VP and second President of the United States. _Discourses on Davila: A Series of Papers on Political History_ [1790] The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 217 [1908 ed.]. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. --Sir James Matthew Barrie (18601937) Scottish writer and dramatist. _Margaret Ogilvy_ [1896] It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. _Chartism_, ch. 3 [1839] We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. If the foundation be firm, the foundation will stand. --Calvin Coolidge (18721933) American Republican statesman and President [19231929]. Commencement Address at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts [17 June 1921]. Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. --Miles Franklin [Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin] (18791954) Australian writer and feminist. _Childhood at Brindabella: My First Ten Years_ [written 1952-3, pub. 1963] The deepest principle in Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. 1896 letter to students who had sent him a plant for Easter. But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest riches is to to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking. --Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (9955 B.C.) Latin poet and philosopher. "De rerum natura" (On the Nature of Things), bk. V, l. 1117 What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar. --Thomas R. Marshall (18541925) American politician and 28th vice-president of the United States [1913-21]. Said in the Senate and quoted in the _New York Tribune_ [4 January 1920]. Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. --Margaret Mead (19011978) American anthropologist. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [1982]. After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature. --John Stuart Mill (18061873) English philosopher and social reformer. _The Subjection of Women_, 4, [1869] It is not the most lovable individual who stands most in need of love, but the most unlovable. --Ashley Montagu [Israel Ehrenberg] (19051999) English anthropologist and humanist. Quoted in "Think" (pub. by IBM) [1960]. We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Speech in the House explaining his veto of the Bonus Bill [22 May 1935]. From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. --Sophie Tucker (18841966) American vaudeville artist. In Michael Freedland _Sophie_ [1978]. ----- dearth (noun) ['dκrth] A severe lack or shortage of something. privation [pry-VAY-shun], noun: 1. An act or instance of depriving. 2. The state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need. . . see: PESSIMISM - In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. --Spiro Agnew (19181996) The 39th Vice President of the U.S.. Address to California state convention [11 September 1970]. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air. --William R. Alger (18221905) American minister and writer. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 66 [10th ed. 1884]. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown. --Charles H. Brower (19011984) American advertising executive and author. Quoted in Harold R. Buhl _Creative Engineering Design_, p. 97 [1960]. - A man that could look no way but downwards with a muckrake in his hand. --John Bunyan (16281688) English writer and allegorist. _The Pilgrim's Progress_, pt. 2 [1684] "Apology for His Book" & see: The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them ... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck, their power of usefulness is gone. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-09]. Speech in Washington, D.C. [14 April 1906]. - He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ..." [3 April 1777]. One is not superior merely because one sees the world in an odious light. --attributed to Franηois-Renι de Chateaubriand (17681848) French writer and diplomat. Gary Dexter notes, truthfully, that the splenetic is a truer barometer of thought than the gushy or the kind. "What is negative is, if nothing else, generally sincere," he writes. "Good reports of fellow writers can easily be flattery or log-rolling: just think of the ways book-reviewers operate. It is only in the negative and the scabrous that we can be sure of a writer's true feelings." --Quoted in "A Nasty Way With Words" by Alexander Theroux, reviewing _Poisoned Pens_ ed. by Gary Dexter. In _The Wall Street Journal_ [20 November 2009]. Though no man hates himself, the coldest among us having too much self-love for that, yet most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Nicholas Nickleby_, ch. 44 [1839] [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]. With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads for us. --attributed to Paul Eldridge (18881982) American educator, novelist, and poet. Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own. --W. S. Gilbert (18361911) English writer of comic and satirical verse. _The Mikado_ [1885] (See Overbury, below.) Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] "Intermission" You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down Complain about the present and blame it on the past I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass. --Don Henley (b. 1947) American rock musician. "Get Over It" from the Eagles' album _Hell Freezes Over_ [1994]. I've pretty much made up my mind that the South have achieved their independence & I am almost ready to hope spring will see an end ... Believe me, we never shall lick 'em ... I think before long the majority will say that we are vainly working to effect what never happens the subjugation (for that is it) of a great civilized nation. We shan't do it at least the Army can't. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: The 21-year-old Holmes had almost been killed at the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sept. (1862), and his letter reflects the sense of despondency that had overcome the North at this stage of the war. This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There's nothing true but Heaven. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _This World Is All a Fleeting Show_ He distains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries before his own. --Sir Thomas Overbury (1581?1613) English poet and essayist. _An Affectate Traveller_ [1614] (See Gilbert, above.) Listen to the MUSTN'T, child, Listen to the DON'Ts Listen to the SHOULDN'Ts The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'Ts Listen to the NEVER HAVEs Then listen close to me Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be. --Shel Silverstein (19301999) Ameican poet and songwriter. "Listen To The Mustn'ts" in _Where the Sidewalk Ends_ [1974]. One of the greatest menaces [is] people with intelligence deciding that the point is to become grimly grey and intense and unhappy and tiresome, because the world and many of its people are in a bad way. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. Quoted in "The Economist" [23 August 2003]. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. --attributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are opening a new road. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. "Men of Letters" in _The Philosophical Dictionary_ [1764], as quoted in Ben Ray Redman (ed.) _The Portable Voltaire_, [1977]. -- Two buffaloes were grazing contentedly on the open prairie when a cowboy rode up. Looking the animals over, he shook his head and said, "You two are the ugliest buffaloes I ever saw. Look at you -- your fur is tangled, you have humps on your backs and you slobber all over the place." As the cowboy rode off, the first buffalo remarked to the second, "I think I just heard a discouraging word." ----- jeremiad (noun) [je-rκ-'mI-ζd] An extended lamentation; a long, drawn-out complaining tirade, often accompanied by a prophecy or insinuation of imminent doom. ;void(0)) NEGLECT . . see: "CARELESS" see: "DELAY" see: "FORGET / FORGETFULNESS" see: "IDLENESS" see: "INACTIVITY" see: "LAZINESS" see: "PROCRASTINATION" see: "REST" see: "WAITING" see: "INDIFFERENCE" for other related links A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _The Way to Wealth_ [1758] The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say because they were too obvious. --Andrι Gide (18691951) French novelist and critic; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Entry of 23 August 1926 in _The Journals of Andrι Gide: 19141927_ [1939]. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Boswell's Life of Johnson_ [20 March 1782] The tender work forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts at night. --Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (18381912) American author, poet, and magazine editor. "The Sin of Omission" in _Ingalls' Home Magazine" [February 1889]. There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. --Johann Georg Zimmermann (17281795) Swiss philosophical writer and physician. _Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things_ [1800] ----- foundling [FOWND-ling], noun: A deserted or abandoned infant; a child found without a parent or caretaker. end page | NAME CALLING - NASTINESS | NATIONALISM - NATIONS | NATURE | NAVY - NEGLECT | NEIGHBORS/NEIGHBORHOOD - NEW YORK | NEW YORK CITY | NEWS - NEWSPEAK | NICE - NONCONFORMITY | NIXON YEARS | NONSENSE - NOVEMBER | NUCLEAR WAR - NURSERY RHYMES | OBESITY - OBSTACLES | OBSTINACY - OKLAHOMA | OLD - OLD AGE | OLD-FASHIONED - OPERA | OPINION | OPPORTUNITY - ORGANIZATION | ORIGINALITY - OYSTERS | | 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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