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. . . RED HEADS see: "THE BODY" My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair. --Jane Fonda (1937 ) American actress. A black-headed gal make a freight train jump the track, Said, a black-headed gal make a freight train jump the track, But a red-headed woman makes a preacher ball the jack. --W. C. (William Christopher) Handy (18731958) American composer. "St. Louis Blues" The sun on a brunette's hair looks red. The sun on a redhead's hair looks like Heaven on Earth. --C. E. Highland Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And eat men like air. --Sylvia Plath [pseu. Victoria Lucas] (19321963) American poet.  . . see: "APPRECIATION" see: "BREEDING" see: "CIVILITY" see: "CULTURE" see: "EDUCATION" see: "GRACE" see: "GROWING" see: "POLITE" see: "TASTE" see: "CHARACTER" for other related links Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food is to the body. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Her voice is full of money. --F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) American novelist. _The Great Gatsby_, ch. 7 [1925] When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin Shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage. This convinced Matthew That there was still hope for America. --Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. _Points of View_, l. I [1923] This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. --Stevie [Florence Margaret] Smith (19021971) English poet and novelist. "The Englishwoman", l. I [1937] ----- bon vivant (noun): A person with refined and sociable tastes, especially one who enjoys fine food and drink. patrician [puh-TRISH-un], noun: 1. A member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome. 2. A person of high birth; a nobleman. 3. A person of refined upbringing, manners, and taste. 4. Of or pertaining to the patrician families of ancient Rome. 5. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. 6. Befitting or characteristic of refined upbringing, manners, and taste. . . see: "CHANGE" see: "CONSCIENCE" see: "CORRUPTION" see: "MAKING A DIFFERENCE" see: "PROGRESS" see: "REMORSE" see: "SELF-IMPROVEMENT" To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on *himself*. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. "Signs of the Times" [1829] Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. _Biographia Literaria_ [1817], ch. 1 At twenty, a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy, he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. --Clarence Darrow (18571938) American lawyer. Quoted in Charles R. Gruner _Speech Communication in Society_ [1972]. We cannot reform our forefathers. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Adam Bede_ [1859] To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Quoted in "The Ohio Educational Monthly" [September 1882]. To reform man was a tedious and uncertain labor: now hanging was the sure work of a minute. --Douglas Jerrold (18031857) English playwright and journalist. _The History of St. Giles and St. James_, ch. XV [1845] A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. --Charles Lamb (17751834) English essayist. _The Works of Charles Lamb_, p. 528 [1852] He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. _Aphorisms on Man_ [1788] One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he can't give up a thing without wanting everyone else to give it up. That isn't the Christian way. --C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (18981963) British scholar and novelist. _Christian Behavior_ [1944] A reformer is one who insists on his conscience being your guide. --attributed to Millard Miller To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. --Alan Stewart Paton (19031988) South African author. Article in "The Saturday Review" [1967]. [The reformer] wants his conscience to be your guide. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time_ [1977] All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. --Logan Pearsall Smith (18651946) American-born man of letters. _Afterthoughts_ [1931] The self-styled reformers, the greatest bores of all. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. "Visitors" in _Walden_ [1854] Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Pudd'nhead Wilson_ [1894] ch. 15 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" Don't marry a man to reform him that's what reform schools are for. --attributed to Mae West (18931980) American stage and film actress. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_, ch. 8 [1891] ;void(0)) REGRET . . see: "APOLOGY" see: "CONFESSION" see: "CONSCIENCE" see: "REMORSE" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links see: "UNHAPPINESS" for other related links A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. --John Barrymore [John Sidney Blythe] (18821942) American Shakespearean actor. In Gene Fowler _Good Night, Sweet Prince_ [1943]. 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 (17591796) Scottish poet and songwriter. "To a Mouse" [1785], st. 7 I have no regret at having lived, for I have so conducted my life that I do not feel that I was born to no purpose. I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. _De Senectute_ [45 B.C.] There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness. --Dante Alighieri (12651321) Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher. _La dinina commedia_ (The Divine Comedy) [c. 13101321], "The Inferno," Canto V 'Repining is of no use, Ma'am,' said Ralph. 'Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that is gone, is the most fruitless.' --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Nicholas Nickleby [1839], Ch.10 I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience. --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (18301916) Austrian writer. _Aphorisms_, p. 47 1880-1905, tr. David Scrase and Wolfgand Mieder [1994] - When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Adam Bede_, ch. IV [1859] With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Middlemarch_, bk. 6, ch. 61 [1871] - Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. "Burnt Norton" in _Four Quartets_ [1943] Finish each day and be done with it ... You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. --Nathan Hale (17551776) American revolutionary. (About to be hanged as a spy by the British during the American Revolution [22 September 1776].) & note: What a pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! --Joseph Addison (16721719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. _Cato_ [1713], act IV, sc. 4 - Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity. --Omar Idn Al-Halif Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. --Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. _Strictly Personal_, p. 220 [1953] Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. And once sent out a word takes wing beyond recall. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_, bk. I, # 18, l. 71 There's no use crying over spilt milk. --James Howell (15931666) British writer. _Paroimiographia: Proverbs, or Old Sayed Sawes and Adages_ [1659] Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contrition. --Washington Irving (17831859) American author, essayist, and travel book writer. "Rural Funerals", _The Sketch Book_ [1819-20] I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. --Henry James (18431916) American novelist. Letter to Hugh Walpole [21 August 1913]. - That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Rasselas_, ch. IV [1759] It is a mortifying reflection for any man to consider what he has done compared with what he might have done. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Quoted by Rev. Dr. Maxwell [1770], in James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. --Omar Khayyαm (10481131) Islamic scholar, poet, and mathematician. _The Rubαiyαt of Omar Khayyαm_ (FitzGerald's 1859 translation) Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last? Were it not better to forget, Than but remember and regret? --Letitia Elizabeth Landon (18021838) British poet and novelist. _Ethel Churchill; Or, The Two Brides_ [1837] I will go anywhere, provided it is forward. --David Livingstone (18131873) Scottish missionary and explorer. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. Oft in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken. Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me. --Thomas Moore (17791852) Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician. _National Airs_ [1815] "Oft in the Stilly Night" st. 1 Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. --Attributed to Laurence J. Peter (19191990) and to Ambrose Bierce (18421914). There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. --Marcel Proust (18711922) French novelist. _Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913-1927], vol. 4, "Within a Budding Grove" I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. --Publilius Syrus (8543 B.C.) Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave. _Maxims_ # 1070 Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. --Pythagoras (582486 B.C.) Ionian mathematician and philosopher. Quoted in _The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction_, vol. V, no. I [6 January 1844]. - Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. --Samuel Rogers (17631855) English poet. _Italy_ [18221828] "Foreign Travel" For who, alas! has lived, Nor in the watches of the night recalled Words he has wished unsaid and deeds undone? --Samuel Rogers (17631855) English poet. "Reflections" - The follies which a man regrets the most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. --Helen Rowland (18751950) American writer. _A Guide to Men_, "Improvisations" [1922] The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight. --Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (18381912) American author, poet, and magazine editor. _At Sunset_, "The Sin of Omission" I could've been a contender. I could've had class and been somebody. Real class. Instead of a bum, let's face it, which is what I am. --Budd Schulberg (19142009) Screenplay for "On the Waterfront" [1954], spoken by Marlon Brando. - Look what is done cannot be now amended: Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours gives leisure to repent. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Richard III_, IV, iv [c. 15921593] Things past redress are now with me past care. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Richard II_, ii, iii [1595] Things without remedy, Should be without regard: what's done is done. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Macbeth_, III, ii [1606] - The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) American writer and philanthropist. Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. In Janet Landman _Regret: The Persistence of the Possible_ [1993]. That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived. --Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (18181883) Russian novelist, poet, and playwright. _Fathers and Sons_ [1862], ch. 7 - For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" --John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892) American poet. "Maud Muller" [1854] & note: If, of all words of tongue or pen, The saddest are, `It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see; `It is, but hadn't ought to be!' --[Francis] Bret Harte (18361902) American author. _Mrs. Judge Jenkins_ - You can't go back home to your family To a young man's dream of fame and glory, To the country cottage away from strife and conflict, To the father you have lost, To the old forms and systems of things, Which seemed everlasting but are changing all the time. --Thomas Wolfe (19001938) American novelist. _You Can't Go Home Again_ [1940] Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. "Ode: Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", l. 177 [1807] A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday. --Thomas Russell Ybarra (18801971) Venezuelan-born American journalist and author. "The Christian" [1909] 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 (18651939) Irish poet and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "Vacillation" in _The Winding Stair and Other Poems_ [1933] ----- compunction (noun) [kκm-'pκngk-shκn] A feeling of slight regret or remorse; a qualm. contrite [KON-tryt; kuhn-TRYT], adjective: Deeply affected with grief and regret for having done wrong; penitent. rue (verb) [ru] To regret or feel remorse or sorrow for. . . see: "DEATH" for related links see: "RELIGION" for related links I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own a God, in short who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy. --Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 ) Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author and poet. - [Henry David] Thoreau on his deathbed and sinking fast was asked by his aunt who'd long worried about her nephew, 'Have you made your peace with your God?' Thoreau, still alert, replied, 'I never quarreled with my God.' This is one of the great deathbed quotes if we excuse any put-down element in it. But the story does not end there. There's an addition which seems, to me, even better. Thoreau's aunt pursued the matter, asking, 'But aren't you concerned about the next world?' Thoreau, impatient now, said, 'One world at a time.' This is an entire sermon, an entire religion, an entire philosophy condensed into one short sentence. This world, this life. It is enough. It is of cosmic relevance. --W. Edward Harris (1935- ) American minister, _A Garage Sale of the Mind_ [1993] - There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it? --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ [1973] In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921 ) Consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Foreword to Fleur Cowles _If I Were an Animal_ [1987]. 'But is all this *true*?' said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. 'Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends toward guesswork.' --Terry Pratchett (1948 ) English science fiction writer. _Small Gods_ [1992] ----- redivivus (adj.) Living again; brought back to life; revived; restored. Ex.: As for Neeson of the nose-heavy, asymmetrical countenance and shrewdly darting, soul-searching eyes, he is a lopsided Gary Cooper redivivus hardly something to sneeze at. --John Simon, "Michael Collins," _National Review_ [25 November 1996] . . see: "BREAKING UP" see: "GOODBYES" see: "LEAVING" see: "PARTING" see: "ACTIONS" for other related links see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links - The worst things: To try to sleep and sleep not. To wait for one who comes not. To try to please and please not. --Arabian Proverb & see: The worst things: To have felt a love and not to have shown it, To have had it all and not to have known it. --Joy Huott - We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. --Colley Cibber (16711757) English actor and playwright. _Love's Last Shift_ [1696] Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [166578], #375 (Wikiquote) [Flotsam asks fellow cop Mag for a date:] I think I would rather stuff pork chops in my bikini and swim in a tank full of piranhas than go surfing with you at sunset, sunrise, or anytime in between. --Joseph Wambaugh (b. 1937) American author. _Hollywood Station_ [2006] - Max (Dan Monahan): Bob, listen to this. She dumped me Bob. She said she never wants to see me again. Bob McGraw (Tim Matheson): Let me tell you something about women, they always say the opposite of what they mean. Max (reading letter) Oh yeah? "If you come within a three block radius of my house I will have my new boyfriend, Vito, rip off your head and spit in your neck." Bob McGraw: You're right kid, you've been dumped. --"Up the Creek" [1984 film] Screenplay by Jim Kouf, et al. - ----- abjure (verb) [κb-'jur] To renounce, repudiate, disavow; to reject, forswear; to leave permanently, as to abjure one's hometown for the Left Bank. Usage: "Abjure" implies a solemn rejection or renunciation, possibly even made under oath. "Renounce" is very close in meaning to "abjure" but carries with it a flavor or disowning. "Disavow" implies the breaking of a vow or trust though it, too, is close in meaning to "abjure." "Forswear" bears a tinge of the medieval and implies a permanent severance. Finally, "recant" suggests the withdrawal of an oath or promise. Someone who abjures is an abjurer and the act is one of abjuration. anathema (noun) [κ-'nζ-thκ-mκ] Formal ecclesiastical expulsion, excommunication; any strong denunciation leading to rejection or ostracism; the person (outcast) or object so reviled and denounced. ;void(0)) RELATIONSHIPS . . see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for related links see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links Love, friendsip, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something. --Anton Chekhov (18601904) Russian dramatist and short-story writer. _Notebooks_ [1921] Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. --E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (18791970) English novelist. _Howards End_ [1910] There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship. --Michael Heseltine (1933 ) British Conservative politician. _Where There's a Will_ [1987] The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_ [1933] If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? --Stephen Levine (1937 ) American autor and poet. In Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen _Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart & Rekindle the Spirit_, p. 111 [1993]. A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (19062001) American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh. _Gift From the Sea_, ch. VI [1991 ed.] Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another; Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Tales of a Wayside Inn_, pt. 3 [1874] I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "I Do, I Will, I Have" [1949] We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. --Anaοs Nin (19031977) French-born American writer. Quoted in Nancy Scholar _Anaοs Nin_ [1984]. - We really need to talk about our relationship, so I've booked us on a TV show. ---cartoon caption by Alex Gregory in _The New Yorker_, 12/18/2000 . . see: "HOME & FAMILY" for related links Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. --Jacques Delille (17381813) French poet. "Malheur et Pitiι", canto I [1803] [Friends are] God's apology for relations. --Hugh Kingsmill (18891949) English writer. In Michael Holroyd _The Best of Hugh Kingsmill_ [1970]. - I have come to the conclusion Having given it a test, That of all my wife's relations, I like myself the best. --anon. ----- consanguineous [kon-san(g)-GWIN-ee-us], adjective: Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Ex.: Among other preliminary activities, the prospective groom's party formally inquires as to the girl's clan-name; this is a ritualization of the taboo on consanguineous marriage. --Mark Laurent Asselin, "The Lu-school reading of 'Guanju' as preserved in an eastern Han fu," _Journal of the American Oriental Society_, [1 July 1997] scion [SY-uhn], noun: 1. A detached shoot or twig of a plant used for grafting. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir. Ex.: Gates is the scion of an old, affluent Seattle family; Jobs is the adopted son of a machinist in Northern California. --"Steve Jobs, Hesitant Co-Founder, Makes New Commitment to Apple," _New York Times_, [7 August 1997] . . To an ant colony dew is a flood. --Afghan proverb In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. --attributed to Honorι de Balzac (17991850) French journalist and writer. But where the West begins depends when you asked the question. In the nineteenth century Charles Dickens got no farther than St. Louis, nine hundred miles short even of the Rockies. He went home convinced he had seen the West, and he declared it to be a fraud. In the seventeenth century the West began practically at the Atlantic seashore. It was synonymous with "the frontier," that inland danger line where the colonial settlement ended and the woods and the Indians started. In the coastal towns of Massachusetts, a fond father, seeing his daughter off on a journey of only fifteen miles to visit relatives in another settlement, wrote in his diary: "I did greatly fear for Abigail's safety, as she is gone into Duxbury. It is her first journey into the West, and I shall pray mightily for her early return." --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (19082004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] - An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. --Einstein's explanation of relativity given to his secretary, Helen Dukas, to relay to reporters and other laypersons in Jamie Sayen _Einstein in America_ [1985] p. 130. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Address to the French Philosophical Society, Paris [6 April 1922]. - Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny. --Jack Handey (b. 1949) American comedian and comedy writer. _Deep Thoughts_ [1993] Judgement is to be made of actions in according to the times in which they were performed. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. "Poplicola and Colon Compared" _Parallel Lives_, Dryden edition [1693] We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. --Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (17821857) Russian-born French writer and salon hostess. _The Writings of Madame Swetchine_ "Airelles", no. 25 (ed. Count de Falloux) [1869] [William] Shockley was famous for his homely but shrewd examples. One day a student confessed to being puzzled by the concept of amplification, which was one of the prime functions of the transistor. Shockley told him, 'If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the exergy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.' --in Tom Wolfe (1931 ) American journalist and novelist, _Hooking Up_ [2000]. - Yanks think 200 years is a long time, and Brits think 200 miles is a long way. - One Englishman is a story. Ten Frenchmen is a story. One hundred Germans is a story. One thousand Indians is a story. Nothing ever happens in Chile. --attrib. London newsroom notice  RELIEF . . see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is. --Alka-Seltzer advertising slogan Consolation, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) - assuage (transitive verb) To provide relief from something distressing or painful (formal) solace [SOL-is], noun: 1. Comfort in time of grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety. 2. That which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; a source of relief. 3. To comfort or cheer in grief or affliction; to console. 4. To allay; to soothe; as, "to solace grief." succor [SUH-kuhr], noun: 1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. 2. The person or thing that brings relief. transitive verb: 1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve. Ex.: "In Asakusa, a crowd sought succor around an old and lovely Buddhist temple, dedicated to Kannon, goddess of mercy." --Richard B. Frank, _Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire_ end page | RABBITS - RAIN | RAP - READING | REAGAN (RONALD) - RECOGNITION | RED HEADS - RELIEF | RELIGION - PAGE 1 (A-M) | RELIGION - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | REMEMBERING - REPORTERS | REPUTATION - RESPONSIBILITY | REST - REUNIONS | REVENGE - REWARD | RICH (THE) - RIGHTEOUS | RIGHTS - ROLLER COASTERS | ROMANCE - RUDENESS | RULES - RUSSIA | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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