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. . . PHONIES see: "BE YOURSELF" see "DECEPTION" for other related links Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues. --Henry Fielding (1707—1754) English novelist and dramatist. Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous. --Henry Fielding (1707—1754) English novelist and dramatist. - No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. --Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864) American novelist and short-story writer. _The Scarlet Letter_ [1850] Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Iliad_, bk. IX - Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 1750—1752), #20 [26 May 1750] Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _The Rambler_ (English twice-weekly journal 1750-1752), #189 - The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.] --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] # 134 There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. --Charles Lamb (1775—1834) English essayist. Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. --John Locke (1632—1704) English political and educational philosopher. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. 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 (1779—1852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _This World Is All a Fleeting Show_ - Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant Can tickle where she wounds! --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601], III, i - ----- claptrap (noun) ['klæp-træp] Pretentious, insincere speech designed to gain applause; a trick or phrase designed to capture praise. Suggested Usage: Remember, claptrap is not just drivel, but drivel designed to stimulate a positive response. ersatz [UR-sats], adjective: Being a substitute or imitation, usually an inferior one. Ex: Meanwhile, a poor copy was erected in the courtyard; many an unsuspecting traveler paid homage to that ersatz masterpiece. --Edith Pearlman, "Girl and Marble Boy," "The Atlantic" [29 December 1999] factitious fak-TISH-uhs, adjective: 1. Produced artificially, in distinction from what is produced by nature. 2. Artificial; not authentic or genuine; sham. histrionic [his-tree-ON-ik], adjective: 1. Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater; befitting a theater; theatrical. 2. Overly dramatic; deliberately affected. Ex.: And the same is true for the other judgments we make about tears, as when we deem them to be normal or excessive, sincere or manipulative, expressive or histrionic. --Tom Lutz, _Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears_ smarmy (adj.) ['smah[r]-mi] Extremely though insincerely polite and solicitous; ingratiating if not unctuous; transparently currying favor. soi-disant [adj. [swah-dee-ZAHN] Someone who is soi-disant is claiming a role, occupation, or status for themselves. The term is a derogatory description of someone who may not be entitled to make such a claim. Ex.: Joe was a soi-disant rock climber, but to the experts it was obvious he had little experience. supposititious [suh-poz-uh-TISH-uhs], adjective: 1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit. 2. Hypothetical; supposed. sycophant [SIK-uh-fuhnt], noun: A person who seeks favor by flattering people of wealth or influence; a parasite; a toady. unctuous [UNGK-choo-us], adjective: 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Insincerely or excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; marked by a false or smug earnestness or agreeableness. Synonyms: oleaginous, buttery, fulsome, smarmy, oily Ex.: She recalled being offended by the "phoniness" that stemmed from the contradiction between her mother's charming, even unctuous public manner and her anger in private. --Daniel Horowitz, "Betty Friedan and the Making of 'The Feminine Mystique'" Ex.: He approached Sean wearing a smile so unctuous it seemed about to slide right off his face. --Naeem Murr, "The Boy"  . . see "MEMORIES" for related links When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. --Ansel Easton Adams (1902—1984) American photographer. In James R. Miller _Visions from Earth_, p. 10 [2004]. One picture is worth a thousand words. --Fred R. Barnard, _Printer's Ink_ in the March 10, 1927 (p. 114) and called it a Chinese Proverb so that people would take it seriously. Bartlett's credits this information to: Barton Stevenson, ed., _The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases_, 1948. A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. An American friend of mine, a cultured gentleman, who loved poetry well enough for its own sake, told me that he had obtained a more correct and more satisfying idea of the Lake District from an eighteen penny book of photographic views than from all the works of Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth put together. I also remember his saying concerning this subject of scenery in literature, that he would thank an author as much for writing an eloquent description of what he had just had for dinner. --Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927) English novelist and playwright. _Three Men on the Bummel_ Time it was, and what a time it was, It was, a time of innocence, A time of confidences. Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph. Preserve your memories, They're all that's left you. --Paul Simon (1941— ) American singer and songwriter. _Bookends Theme_ [1967] . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links - 'Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world,' AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans' attitudes about the Vietnam War. For all the image's political impact, though, the situation wasn't as black-and-white as it's rendered. What Adams' photograph doesn't reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war's savagery and made the official pulling the trigger-- General Nguyen Ngoc Loan--its iconic villain. Sadly, the photograph's legacy would haunt Loan for the rest of his life. Following the war, he was reviled wherever he went. After an Australian VA hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. He eventually settled in Virginia and opened a restaurant but was forced to close it down as soon as his past caught up with him. Vandals scrawled 'We know who you are' on his walls, and business dried up. Adams felt so bad for Loan that he apologized for having taken the photo at all, admitting, 'The general killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera.' --Ransom Riggs _Mental Floss Magazine_ [Jan/Feb 2007], "13 Photographs That Changed The World: #4: The Photograph That Ended A War But Ruined A Life" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan - Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away... --Paul Simon (1941- ) American singer and songwriter. "Kodachrome" (song) I needed no friends now. . . . Sundays my camera and I would take long car-rides into the country--always alone, and the nights were spent feverishly developing my plates in some makeshift darkroom. . . and then the first print I made from my first 5 x 7 negative--a snow scene--the tightening--choking sensation in my throat--the blinding tears in my eyes when I realize that a "picture" had really been conceived--and how I danced for joy in my father's office. Months of happiness followed--interest was sustained--yes--without many lapses--is with me yet. --Edward Weston (1886-1958) American photographer. PHOTOGRAPHY: http://www.webshots.com/ ;void(0)) PHYSICIANS . . see "HEALTH" for related links He is the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, Poor Richard's Almanack [1733] Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed. --Paracelsus [Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493-1541), Alchemist, physician, and astrologer Labor and abstinence are two of the best physicians in the world. --Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) English humanitarian. Advocate of vegetarianism, temperance, and pacifism . . see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. --Arthur Buller (1874-1944) British botanist and mycologist ^ Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) German-born physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. In the course of conversation at an American dinner party Einstein's neighbor, a young girl, asked the white-haired professor: 'What are you actually by profession?' Einstein replied: I devote myself to the study of physics.' The girl looked at him in astonishment. 'You mean to say you study physics at your age?' she exclaimed. 'I finished mine a year ago.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take. --James Jeans (1877-1946) English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, _An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases_ [1940] I remember the line from the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita. . . 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.' {on the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico [16 July 1945]} --J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) American physicist and the director of the Manhattan Project, in Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed _The Decision to Drop the Bomb_ [1965] An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. --Max Plank [Karl Ernst Ludwig] (1858-1947) German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory; winner of the Nobel Prize, for Physics in 1918 _The Philosophy of Physics_ [1936] end page | PACIFISM & PAIN | PAINTING - PARENTING | PARIS - PASSPORTS | PAST (THE) - PATRIOTISM | PEACE - PERCENTAGES | PEOPLE | PERCEPTIONS - PERSUASION | PESSIMISM - PHOBIAS | PHONIES - PHYSICS | PI - PLANS | PLACES | PLANTS - POETRY | POISON - POLITICAL PARTIES | POLITICS & POLITICIANS | POLLS - POPES | POPEYE - POTENTIAL | POVERTY | POWER | PRACTICALITY - PRAYER | PREACHERS - PREPARED (BE) | PRESENT (THE) - PRETENDING | PRETENTIONS - PRIVACY | PROBLEMS - PROGRESSIVES | PROGRESS - PROPAGANDA | PROPOSALS - PUBLIC (THE) | PUBLIC OPINION - PURPOSE (ON HAVING A) | QUALITIES - QUIPS | QUIRKS - QUOTATIONS | | 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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