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. . . QUALITIES see: "ABILITY" see: "CHARACTER" see: "SWEET" Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. --Juvenal (c. 55—130) Roman satirist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 405 [1886]. It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 25 [1891 ed.]. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. --attributed to Judith "Miss Manners" Martin (b. 1938) American newspaper columnist. We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognize our qualities. --attributed to André Maurois (1885—1967) (pseudonym of Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) French author. Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellencies, which lie deep down like gold, and are only discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. --Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825) German novelist _Levana: Or, the Doctrine of Education_ [Eng. translation, 1848] Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1706] There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _The Refuge of the Derelicts_, ch. 10 [1905]   QUALITY . . see: "SUCCESS" for related links Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. --Willa A. Foster It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Moral Epistles_ . . see: "ANGER" see: "ARGUMENT" see: "CONTRADICTION" see: "DISSENT" see: "FIGHT" see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. --Sir John Barnard (c. 1685—1764) English politician and Lord Mayor of London from 1737 to 1738. _A Present for an Apprentice_ [1740] ( Also attributed to Ben Franklin.) The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. --John Barrymore (John Sidney Blythe) (1882—1942) Shakespearean actor. In Readers Digest [July 1940]. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. --Bible "Mark" 3:25 If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off. --Burmese proverb People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874—1936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. "The New Generations and Morality" in _The Illustrated London News_ [9 March 1929]. Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise. --Euripides (485?—406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Protesilaus_, fragment 656 Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. Quoted in Frances M. Barbour _A Concordance to the Sayings in Franklin's Poor Richard_ [1974]. Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. --John Gay (1685—1732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727], "The Mastiffs" It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, when the wolf remains of a different opinion. --William Ralph Inge (1860—1954) English writer and Dean of St. Paul's [1911—1934]. _Outspoken Essays: First Series_ [1919] "Patriotism" In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit. --St. Ignatius Loyola (1491—1556) Spanish theologian. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678]; maxim 496 I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. --Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864) English poet, essayist, and critic. "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. I [1853] Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. --Abraham Lincoln (1809—1865) American Republican statesman, President [1861—1865]. In a letter to J.M. Cutts [26 October 1863]. Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same person. --Blaise Pascal (1623—1662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensées_ ("Thoughts") [1670] - A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _De Ira_, II, 34 It is easier to refrain than to retreat from a quarrel. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "On Anger" in _Moral Essays_ tr. John W. Basore [1928] - We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. --Julia Moss Seton The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. --George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. _The Philanderer_ [1893], act IV The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands, we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. --Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist. _The Rivals_ [1775], act IV, sc. 3 Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. _The Philosophical Dictionary_ [1764] - Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. --Isaac Watts (1674—1748) English hymn writer. "Against Quarreling and Fighting" in _Divine Songs for Children_ [1715] - We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. --William Butler Yeats (1865—1939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Quoted in _The Writer's Almanac_ [13 June 2004]. - Prov. 20:3 It is to a man’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. Prov. 22:10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended. Prov. 26:21 As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. Prov. 30:33 For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife. ----- affray (noun) A noisy public quarrel or fight; brawl. Synonyms: wrangle, scuffle, fracas, brawl, uproar, melee, altercation Similar: tussle, skirmish, clash, struggle, strife, squabble, conflict, disturbance, commotion, disagreement, dispute, riot, tangle cantankerous (adj.) [kæn-'tæng-kêr-ês] Quarrelsome, ill-tempered, crotchety, ornery; difficult to handle. contentious (adj.) [kên-'ten-chês] Quarrelsome, argumentative for no reason; given to opposing whatever is said or done. fracas (noun) 1. A noisy disturbance or quarrel. Syn.: brawl, affray, fray, commotion, altercation Related: fight, disturbance, melee, uproar, disorder, dispute pettifogger [PET-ee-fog-ur], noun: 1. A petty, unscrupulous lawyer; a shyster. 2. A person who quibbles over trivia. pugnacious [puhg-NAY-shuhs], adjective: Inclined to fight; combative; quarrelsome.  QUESTIONS . . see: "ANSWERS" see: "COMMUNICATION" see: "CURIOSITY" see: "DISCOVERY" see: "DOUBT" see: "KNOWLEDGE" - "When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise." "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked. "We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily. "Really you are very dull!" "You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question," added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898) English writer and logician. _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865], Ch.9: "The Mock Turtle's Story" "Father William" by Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898) English writer and logician "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right?" "In my youth," Father William replied to his son, "I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again." "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door-- Pray, what is the reason of that?" "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, "I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box-- Allow me to sell you a couple." "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-- Pray, how did you manage to do it?" "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." "You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-- What made you so awfully clever?" "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," Said his father; "don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!" - Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? --Frank Moore Colby (1865—1925) American essayist and professor. _Essays_, Volume 1 The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. --attributed to Bishop Mandell Creighton (1843—1901) English historian and ecclesiastic. The fool wonders, the wise man asks. --Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880]. _Ixion in Heaven_, IV, i [1834] [Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx):] Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first. --"Duck Soup" [1933 film] Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Inquiry is fatal to certainty. --Will [William James] Durant (1885—1981) & Ariel Durant (1898—1981) _Story of Civilization: The Age of Faith_ [1950] Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. ---Felix Frankfurter (1882—1965) Austrian-born U.S. Supreme Court justice who helped found the A.C.L.U.. Dissenting opinion in "Priebe & Sons v. United States, 332 US 407" [1947]. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _She Stoops to Conquer_ [1773] Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. --Katharine Graham (1917—2001) American publisher. Interview in "Ms." (mag.) [1974] When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. --Frank Herbert (1920—1986) American science-fiction author. _The Godmakers_ - Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_ I, 18, 69 & note: Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. Attributed in John Timbs _Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_, p. 326 [1829]. - The question of a wise man is half the answer. --Ibn Gabirol (c.1022—c.1058) Spanish poet. _Choice of Pearls_ tr. A. Cohen [1925] To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Questions show the mind's range, and answers, its subtlety. --Joseph Joubert (1754—1824) French philosopher. _Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert_ ("Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert") [1838] - Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. --Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) English writer and poet. _Puck of Pook's Hill_ (1906) "A Smuggler's Song" I keep six honest serving men, (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who. --Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) English writer and poet. _The Just-So Stories_ [1902], "The Elephant's Child" - If you want to talk, first ask a question, then listen. --Antonio Machado (1875—1939) Spanish poet. Attributed in n Joseph Goldstein _One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism_, p. 66 [2002]. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. --Naguib Mahfouz (1911—2006) Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Quoted in Michael J. Gelb _Thinking For a Change_ [1996]. One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Gay Science_ [1882] It is not every question that deserves an answer. --Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. --Ronald Reagan (1911—2004) U.S. President [1981-1989] and former Hollywood actor. Speech, in Lou Cannon "Thanks for the Reaganisms" _Washington Post_ [2 January 1989] It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. --James Thurber (1894—1961) American humorist and cartoonist. "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much," _Fables for Our Time_ [1940] ^ James Thurber (1894—1961) American cartoonist and humorist. One of Thurber's favorite stories concerned a conversation he had with a nurse while he was in the hospital. 'What seven-letter word has three u's in it?' he asked. The nurse pondered and then said, 'I don't know, but it must be unusual.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. Attributed in _The Tuners' Magazine_ [August 1915]. Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? --Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834—1867) American humorist and writer. _Artemus Ward's Lecture_ [1869] Whoever is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. --Thomas Watson (1620—1686) English Puritan preacher and author. -- A man approached a local in a village he was visiting. "What's the quickest way to York?" The local scratched his head and asked, "Are you walking or driving?" "I'm driving." "That's the quickest way!" -- ;void(0)) QUIET . . see: "PEACE" see: "REST" see: "SILENCE" see: "SLEEP" see: "SOLITUDE" Women ought to be quiet. When people are talking, they ought to retire to the kitchen. --W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973) English-born poet and man of letters. _Table Talk_ [1947] Mum's the word. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 44 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. --Thomas Gray (1716—1771) English poet. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 73 [1751] I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, 'Children, you must not make so much noise,' that I do not think how soon the time may come when those parents would give *all the world*, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them. --Abbott E. Kittredge (1834—1912) English clergyman. Quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert _Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers_ [1895]. Not a mouse stirring. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_ [1601], I, 1, 10 Travel in the African bush is also a sort of revenge on mobile phones and fax machines, on telephones and the daily paper, on the creepier aspects of globalisation that allow anyone who chooses to get their insinuating little hands on you. I desired to be unattainable. --Paul Theroux (1941— ) American novelist and travel writer. _Dark Star Safari_ [2004] ----- mussitate [MUHS-i-teyt], verb: To silently move the lips in simulation of audible speech. . . see: "HUMOR" for related links Atheism: a non-prophet organization. It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. Man who eat crackers in bed wake up feeling crummy. Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted. Man who makes love on grass, gets piece on earth. Thirty nice age for woman of forty. Man born with silver spoon in mouth make stirring speeches. Man who hasn't paid for hat is in debt over his ears. When raining cats and dogs don't step into a poodle. Confucius he say: Pen mightier than sword, but well aimed typewriter pack good punch. The wages of sin are unreported. To get back on your feet, miss two car payments. 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