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PIANO
PIE --- PIGS --- PIRATES
PITY --- PLAGIARISM --- PLANS

PIANO

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see "MUSIC" for related links


The romantic scene at the piano used to play an
important part in courtships. Then girls didn't
have 'sex appeal'; they had 'allure,' and they all
knew this allure could be displayed to the best
advantage at the piano. When the beau called on
Sunday night and presented his bouquet or box
of bonbons, the girl spoke of a new song which
was 'simply divine' ... They sang it together,
maybe. After a few verses of one of those tender,
romantic lyrics beneath rose-shaded lights his
sales resistence was shattered completely and
he was sure that his devotion would last until
the sands of the desert grew cold.
--Lorenz Hart (1895—1943)
American lyricist.
In Meryle Secrest _Somewhere For Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers_ [2001].

In 1919, the great pianist Ignace Paderewski agreed to serve
as prime minister of Poland, and he attended the Paris Peace
Talks in that capacity. The story is told that the French premier,
Clemenceau, said to him, "Are you related to the pianist?"
Paderewski replied, "I am, in fact, the pianist." Continued
Clemenceau, "And now you are prime minister?" "Yes,"
answered Paderewski. Sighed the Frenchman: "What a
comedown."
--Jay Nordlinger, Beethoven, Verdi — and someone you don't know,
NROnline [15 September 2003]

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...We take the ubiquity of the modern piano for granted, but of course for many years the keyboard tradition was represented by the harpsichord, with its plucked strings and uniform volume. In 1700, as Mr. Barron reminds us, one Bartolomeo Cristofori, under the patronage of a Medici prince, invented an instrument in which the strings were struck with leather hammers, producing a gradation of tone from loud (forte) to soft (piano).

Instrument makers soon discovered that more keys, longer and thicker strings, and higher tensions produced a more brilliant tone. The new instruments sold well but lost all usefulness when their wooden frames, inevitably, warped and buckled from the tension of the strings. After a century of trial and error, a stronger frame was found. John Broadwood in England, and Dominique Boisselot and Sιbastien Erard in France — and later Ludwig Bφsendorfer and Carl Bechstein in Germany — became the reigning gods of piano manufacture.

--James Penrose
"Building a musical instrument and a company", reviewing _Piano_
by James Barron in _The Wall Street Journal_ [15 July 2006].

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A Steinway will never sound quite the same again.
--Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturer.
Sole copy in ad honoring the memory of
Vladimir Horowitz who had just died,
_New York Times_ [10 November 1989].

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Please do not Shoot the Pianist.
He is doing His Best.
--anon., sign seen in a Leadville, Colorado, saloon
by Oscar Wilde during his U.S. tour [1882].




PIE

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see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links


URIAH HEEP: I got to know what umbleness did,
and I took to it. I ate umble pie with an appetite.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_David Copperfield_, ch. 39 [1850]

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Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish clergyman, satirist, and journalist.

On his travels Swift stopped at a house where the
hostess, anxious to please her eminent visitor,
asked him what he would like for dinner. "Will
you have an apple pie, sir? Will you have a
gooseberry pie, sir? A plum pie? A currant pie?
A cherry pie?—'

'Any pie but a magpie, madam,' interrupted Swift.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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[Satirical recipe for New England apple pie:]
Construct a bullet-proof dough. ... Toughen and
kiln-dry it a couple of days. ... Fill with stewed
dried apple; aggravate with cloves, lemon peel
and slabs of citron; add two portions of New
Orleans sugar. Then solder on the lid and set
it in a safe place till it petrifies. Serve cold at
breakfast and invite your enemy.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_A Tramp Abroad_ [1879]

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The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was
Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

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SIMPLE SIMON
Met a Pieman going to the fair
Said Simple Simon to the Pieman
"What have you got there?"
Said the Pieman unto Simon
"Pies, you dumbass!"
--anon.





PIGS

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see "ANIMALS" for related links


'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings.'
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. 4 [1872]

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig.
You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
--Cyrus Ching (1876—1967)
Canadian-born American industrialist.
Quoted in "Time" (mag.) [1950].

Dogs look up to us. cats look down
on us, but pigs treat us as equals.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940-45, 1951-55].
Quoted in "Time" (mag.) [1990].

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it
wastes your time and annoys the pig.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Time Enough for Love_ [1973] "Prelude II"

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The Seven young Guinea Pigs went into a garden full
of Gooseberry-bushes and Tiggory-trees, under one
of which they fell asleep. When they awoke, they
saw a large Lettuce which had grown out of the ground
while they had been sleeping, and which had an
immense number of green leaves. At which they all
exclaimed:

'Lettuce! O Lettuce!
'Let us, O let us,
'O Lettuce leaves,
'O let us leave this tree and eat
'Lettuce, O let us, Lettuce leaves!'

And instantly the Seven young Guinea Pigs rushed
with such extreme force against the Lettuce-plant,
and hit their heads so vividly against its stalk,
that the concussion brought on directly an incipient
transitional inflammation of their noses, which
grew worse and worse and worse and worse till
it incidentally killed them all Seven.

And that was the end of the Seven young Guinea Pigs.

--Edward Lear (1812—1888)
English landscape painter and writer of nonsense verse.
"The History of the Seven Families of Lake Pipple-popple"

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Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together
in the golden evening, and for a long time they were
silent.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said
Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to
yourself?"

"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say,
Piglet?"

"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?"
said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.

--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ [1926]

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The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Gives us ham and pork and bacon.
Let others think his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"The Pig"

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What is worse than a male chauvinistic pig?
A woman that won't do what she's told.
--anon.

Commitment: The difference between involvement
and commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast
of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved, the
pig was committed.
--anon.

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An impetuous maiden named Marion,
An antidisestablishmentarian,
Took a rabbit, a bear
And a pig to the fair,
And posed as a veterinarian.
--anon.

I dreamt of a virile young stud,
We rolled like two pigs in the mud,
We spent half an hour,
Making love in the shower,
Then I fell out of bed with a thud.
--anon.

Said an old lady pickling figs
To another one nickeling wigs:
"Aren't we fickle
To nickel and pickle
When we could have been tickling pigs?"
-anon.

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Q: What do you get if you cross a pig and a conifer?
A: A porcupine

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Trivia: An average pig squeals at a range from 100 to 115 decibels.




PIRATES

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see: "SEA (THE)"

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When the provisions are on board and the ship is
ready to sail the buccaneers resolve by common
vote where they shall cruise. They also draw up an
agreement or chasse partie, in which it is specified
what the captain will have for himself and for the use
of his vessel. Usually they agree on the following
terms. Providing they capture a prize, first of all these
amounts would be deducted from the whole capital.
The hunters' pay would generally be 200 pieces of
eight. The carpenter, for his work in repairing and
fitting out the ship, would be paid 100 or 150 pieces
of eight. The surgeon would receive 200 or 250
pieces of eight for his medical supplies, according to
the size of the ship. Then came the agreed awards for
the wounded, who might have lost a limb or suffered
other injuries. They would be compensated as follows:
for the loss of a right arm 600 pieces of eight or six
slaves; for a left arm 500 pieces of eight or five slaves.

--A.O. Exquemelin _The Buccaneers af America_ [1678] in M.J. Cohan
and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 392 [2004].
Cohan & Major add:
This eyewitness account of English, French and Dutch
sea-rovers was published in Holland and became an
instant bestseller. It is written from inside and gives a vivid
portrait of Henry Morgan, the notorious. brutal (and, from
this distance, charismatic) Welsh pirate. The buccaneers
took their name from the method of smoke-drying beef,
which became their stock in trade. The meat was cured
over a wooden frame, and the Carib word boucan was
applied to both the griddle and the process. The
buccaneers were sometimes Protestant drop-outs,
committed to plundering Catholic Spain. They developed
their own community code of conduct: the Custom of the
Coast.


Yet even this man had not suffered all the torments
which the buccaneers inflicted on the Spanish
to make them divulge their hidden wealth. Some
they hung up by their genitals, till the weight of their
bodies tore them loose. Then they would give the
wretches three or four stabs through the body with a
cutlass and leave them lying in that condition until
God released them from their miserable plight by
death. Some poor creatures lingered on for four or
five days. Others they crucified, with burning fuses
between their fingers and toes. Others they bound,
smeared their feet with grease and stuck them in the
fire.

--A.O. Exquemelin _The Buccaneers af America_ [1678] in M.J. Cohan
and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 392 [2004].
Cohan & Major add:
Henry Morgan, whose torture techniques are here
described, was arrested and transported to London
as a sop to the Spanish in 1672. But when war broke
out again between the two countries he was knighted.
He died in 1688, a wealthy planter and deputy
governor of Jamaica.

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea,
and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
_Fireside Travels_ [1864] "At Sea"





PITY

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see: "COMPASSION"
see: "SELF-PITY"
see: "SYMPATHY"
see: "UNDERSTANDING"
see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


You are always complaining of melancholy, and I conclude from those
complaints that you are fond of it. No man talks of that which he is
desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he
is ashamed. .... Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself,
never to mention your own mental diseases; if you are never to speak
of them you will think of them but little, and if you think little of them,
they will molest you rarely. When you talk of them, it is plain that you
want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do
you no good.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Letter to James Boswell [8 April 1780].

I pitied him in his blindness
But can I boast, "I see?"
Perhaps there walks a spirit
Close by, who pities me.
--Harry Kemp (1883—1960)
American poet.
_Blind_

Pity is feeling sorry for someone; empathy
is feeling sorry with someone.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
"Racism and the White Backlash" in _Where Do We Go from Here?_ [1967].

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort
of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others in
order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer
to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
Attributed in James Comper Grey _The Biblical Museum_, Vol. I [1876].

Perchance that I might learn what pity is,
That I might laugh at erring men no more.
--Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475—1564)
Florentine sculptor, artist, architect and poet.
In John Addington Symonds (trans.) _The Sonnets of
Michaelangelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella_ [1878].

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt
because one has clearly ceased to be an
object of fear as soon as one is pitied.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_The Wanderer and His Shadow_ [1880]

How much to be pitied is he who has no pity!
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
_Moral Sayings_, 263, trans. Darius Lyman, Jr. [1862]

My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
__Henry VI, Part 3_, IV, viii [1591]

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pathos (noun)
1. A quality in life or art that evokes
pity, sadness, or compassion.
2. Pity or sorrow.




PLAGIARISM

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see: "AUTHORS"
see: "BOOKS"
see: "BORROWING"
see: "IMITATION"
see: "STEALING"
see: "THIEVES"
see: "DECEPTION" for other related links


About the most originality that any writer can hope
to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
Attributed in "Books of the Month" [1959].

[Conversing with Samuel Johnson:]
He said, our judges had not gone deep in the question
concerning literary property. I mentioned Lord Monboddo's
opinion, that if a man could get a work by heart, he might
print it, as by such an act the mind is exercised. Johnson:
"No, Sir; a man's repeating it no more makes it his property,
than a man may sell a cow which he drives home." I said,
printing an abridgement of a work was allowed, which was
only cutting the horns and tail off the cow. Johnson: "No,
Sir, 'tis making the cow have a calf."
--James Boswell (1740—1795)
Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author.
_The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786]

The man is most original who can adapt
from the greatest number of sources.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
Attributed in "Gardeners' Chronicle of America" [February 1921].

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down
as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, DLXVI [1820]

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--attributed to Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad
poets deface what they take, and good poets
make it into something better.
--T.S. Eliot (1888—1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.
_The Sacred Wood_ [1920] "Philip Massinger"

Our best thoughts come from others.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Attributed in James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient
and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 337 [1899].

When a thing has been said and said well,
have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
--Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844—1924)
French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
Attributed in Robert Andrews _The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_ [1987].

Literature is full of coincidences which some love to believe plagiarisms.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
Quoted in _London Society_, Vol XLII [1882].

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
--William Ralph Inge (1860—1954)
English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934].
Attributed in Connie Robertson
_The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 181 [1998].

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my
own thoughts from those I read, because what
I read become the very substance and texture
of my mind.
--Helen Keller (1880—1968)
American author and educator who was blind and deaf.
_The Story of My Life_ [1903]

Today an original thinker is the person
who is the first to steal an idea.
--Karl Kraus (1874—1936)
Austrian satirist.
Quoted in Thomas Szasz _Karl Kraus and the Soul-Doctors_ [1976].

Plagiarize! Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes.
--Tom Lehrer (b. 1928)
American songwriter and satirist.
"Lobachevski" [1953 song]

I pounce on what is mine, wherever I find it.
--Jean Franηois Marmontel (1723—1799)
French critic, dramatist, and story writer.
Quoted by Emerson in "The North American Review" [April 1868].

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism;
if you steal from many, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner (1876—1933)
American playwright.
Quoted in: Alva Johnston, _The Legendary Mizners_, ch. 4 [1953].

It could be said of me that in this book I have
only made up a bunch of other men's flowers,
providing of my own only the string that ties
them together.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays), bk. 3, ch. 12 [1580]

He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
--Hannah More (1745—1833)
English religious writer.
_Florio_, pt. I, l. 123 [1786]

In comparing various authors with one another,
I have discovered that some of the gravest and
latest writers have transcribed, word for word,
from former works, without making
acknowledgement.
--Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (23—79)
Roman statesman and scholar.
_Natural History_ [77—79]

Whatever is well said by anyone is mine.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistulae morales ad Lucilium_, Epistle XVI [c. 65 A.D.]

Plagiarists [are] purloiners who filch the fruit that others
have gathered, and then throw away the basket.
--Horace Smith (1779—1849)
English poet and novelist.
_The Tin Trumpet_ [1836]

Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
"Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on His Coach" [1724]

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
--Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190—159 BC)
Roman comic dramatist.
_Eunuchus_, line 41 (Prologue)

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
The most original writers borrowed from one
another. The instruction we find in books
is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors,
kindle it at home, communicate it to others
and it becomes the property of all.
--Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (1694—1778)
French writer and philosopher.
Quoted in Hialmer D. Gould & Edward L. Hessenmueller
_Best Thoughts of Best Thinkers_, p. 576 [1904].

[Response to Oscar Wilde's comment, 'I wish I'd said that':]
You will, Oscar, you will.
--James Whistler (1834—1903)
American artist.
Quoted in L.C. Ingleby _Oscar Wilde_ [1907].

I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can
only say in my defense, like the woman brought
before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, 'I do
steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best
stores.'
--Thornton Wilder (1897—1975)
American novelist and dramatist.
Quoted in Richard H. Goldstone _Thornton Wilder, An Intimate Portrait_ [1975].




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PLANS/PLANNING

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see: "ANTICIPATION"
see: "GOALS"
see: "PRUDENCE"
see: "SUCCESS" for other related links


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Do not count your chickens
before they are hatched.
--Ζsop (c.620 B.C.—c.560 B.C.)
(Thought to be a legendary figure.)
_Ζsop's Fables_ "The Milkmaid and Her Pail"


It is thrifty to prepare today
for the wants of tomorrow.
--Ζsop (c.620 B.C.—c.560 B.C.)
(Thought to be a legendary figure.)
_Ζsop's Fables_ "The Dog in the Manger"

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The life of every man is a diary in which he
means to write one story, and writes another;
and his humbles hour is when he compares
the volume as it is with what he vowed to
make it.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.
_The Little Minister_, ch. 1 [1891]

It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
--Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
English Jacobean dramatists.
_The Faithful Friends_, I, ii [c. 1608]

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane
In proving foresight may be vain
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promis'd joy!
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
"To a Mouse" [1785]

His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Lara: A Tale_, Canto 1, XVIII [1814]

And what if you were told: One more hour?
--Elias Canetti (1905—1994)
Bulgarian-born writer and novelist.
__Das Geheimherz der Uhr_ (The Secret Heart of the Clock) [1987]

"When I was a small boy in Kansas," [Dwight] Eisenhower
once recalled, "a friend of mine and I went fishing, and
as we sat there in the warmth on a summer afternoon
on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to
do when we grew up. I told him I wanted to be a real
major league baseball player, a genuine professional
like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to
be president of the United States. Neither of us got
our wish."
--Carl M. Cannon,
_The Oval Office and the Diamond_,
"The Atlantic Monthly" [May 2001]

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it
again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith.
It does not matter how small you are if you have
faith and plan of action.
--Fidel Castro (b. 1926)
Political leader of Cuba from 1959.
In _New York Times_ [22 April 1959].

If a man take no thought about what is
distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
--Sir John Denham (1615—1669)
British poet.
"Of Prudence"

First say to yourself what you would
be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_The Moral Discourses of Epictetus_, ch. xxiii
"Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously"

Look before you leap.
--Robert Greene (1558—1592)
English playwright.
"Greenes Never Too Late" [1590]

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Of a good beginning cometh a good end.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_, pt. I, ch. X [1546]


Look ere ye leap.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]

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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
--Thomas Howell
_New Sonnets_ [c. 1570]

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In "The Rambler" (English journal), 110 [6 April 1751].

That's the way life goes, of course. A breeze comes up in Rhode Island
on a morning in March during the Civil War, and a Union soldier home
on leave goes into a park in Providence to fly a kite, and a young woman
sees the kite in the sky from her front stoop a block away and wanders
into the park, where she meets the soldier and likes him, and they write
letters to each other after he goes back to his outfit, and they are married
after the war, and they have a son, who grows up and has a son, who
grows up and has a son, who is named Charles after the soldier. And
here I am. But I wouldn't be, if a Rhode Island day in 1864 had turned
out calm, rather than breezy. I owe everthing to the wind and to Providence.
--Charles Kuralt (1934—1997)
American journalist and broadcaster.
_Charles Kuralt's America_ [1995] "April: A Change of Plans"

He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his Nowhere plans for nobody.
--John Lennon (1940—1980)
English pop singer and songwriter.
"Nowhere Man" [1965 song]

Hope the Best but prepare for the Worst.
--Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616—1704)
English journalist and pamphleteer.
_Seneca's Morals by way of Abstract_ [1702]

Do not cross the bridge till you come to it.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"Journal" [29 April 1850]

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life
does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy
lies in having no goal to reach.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream.

--Benjamin E. Mays (1894—1984)
American educator and president of Morehead College.
Quoted in "The Crisis" [October 1979].

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Voyages are accomplished inwardly, and the most
hazardous ones, needless to say, are made without
moving from the spot.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Colossus of Maroussi_ [1941]

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or
newspaper reporter. But after college — I did
other things.
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929—1994)
Wife of President John F. Kennedy.
Quoted in "Newsweek" [1977].

If you don't know where you're going, you
will probably end up somewhere else.
--Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
Canadian teacher and author.
_The Peter Principle_ [1969]

In the current decade [1961-1970] the Soviet Union,
in creating the material and technical basis of
communism, will surpass the strongest and richest
capitalist country, the USA, in production per head
of population; the people's standard of living and
their cultural and technical standards will improve
substantially; everyone will live in easy circumstances;
all collective and state farms will become highly
productive and profitable enterprises; the demand
of the Soviet people for well-appointed housing will,
in the main, be satisfied; hard physical work will
disappear; the USSR will have the shortest working
day.
--Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
adopted by the 22nd Party Congress [31 October 1961];
in _New York Times [29 November 1961].

Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901-09].
Words inscribed near his grave in Oyster Bay, N.Y..

Prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est.
(Get good counsel before you begin; and
when you have decided, act promptly.)
--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86 B.C. — 35/34 B.C.)
Roman historian.
_Bellum Catilinae_ (Catiline's War) [43-42 B.C.]

Life is what happens to us while
we are making other plans.
--Allen Saunders (fl. 1957)
Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [January 1957].

-

If one does not know to which port
one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Epistulae morales ad Lucilium_ [c. 65 A.D.]


No one has had gods so favorable to him
that he can promise himself a morrow.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Thyestes_, III, l. 619

-

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.
--Shel Silverstein (1930—1999)
Ameican poet and songwriter.
In _Falling Up_ [1996].

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the
morrow, or haply on days beyond it;
for tomorrow is not, until today is
past.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Trachiniae_, l. 943

[After his defeat in the 1952 presidential election:]
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900—1965)
American Democratic politician.
Speech in Washington D.C. [13 December 1952].

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can
afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how
to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate,
but once you've made up your mind — jump in.
--Charles R. Swindoll (b. 1934)
American evanegelical Christian pastor.
_Living on the Ragged Edge_ [1985]

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
--Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941)
Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer,
playwright, and painter who won the 1913
Nobel Prize for Literature.
In "The Visva-Bharati Quarterly" [1945].

-

For man proposes, but God disposes.
--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_The Imitation of Christ_, bk. 1, ch. 19, sec. 2 [c.1420]

& see:

The gods thought otherwise.
--Virgil (70—19 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Aeneid_, bk. 2, l. 428 [c. 29-19 B.C.]

-

If you have built castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
"Conclusion" in _Walden_ [1854]

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like
astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
--Dame Rebecca West [Cecily Isabel Fairfiield] (1892—1983)
British-Irish journalist, novelist, and critic.
Quoted in Jonathon Green
_Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations_ [1982].

Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
--William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"Vacillation" in _The Winding Stair and Other Poems_ [1933].

--

Two women met for the first time since graduating from high school.
One asked the other, "You were always so organized in school, Did
you manage to live a well planned life?"

"Yes," said her friend. "My first marriage was to a millionaire;
my second marriage was to an actor; my third marriage was to a
preacher; and now I'm married to an undertaker."

Her friend asked, "What do those marriages have to do with a well
planned life?"

"One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four
to go."

--

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improvident [im-PROV-uh-duhnt]; adjective:
Lacking foresight or forethought; not foreseeing
or providing for the future; negligent or thoughtless.

inchoate (adj.)
1. Just beginning to develop.
2. Only partly formed.

machination [mack-uh-NAY-shun; mash-], noun:
1. The act of plotting.
2. A crafty scheme; a cunning design or plot intended
to accomplish some usually evil end.

stratagem (noun) ['strζ-tκ-jκm]
A clever scheme or plan to achieve
an objective, a cunning ploy.


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