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;void(0)) . . . REST see: "BED" see: "DREAMS" see: "IDLENESS" see: "INACTIVITY" see: "LEISURE" see: "NIGHT" see: "PEACE" see: "QUIET" see: "SLEEP" see: "SOLITUDE" see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links - Let's take a boat to Bermuda Let's take a plane to Saint Paul Let's take a kayak To Quincy or Nyack, Let's get away from it all. Let's take a trip in a trailer No need to come back at all Let's take a powder To Boston for chowder, Let's get away from it all. We'll travel 'round from town to town, We'll visit ev'ry state. I'll repeat "I love you, Sweet!" In all the forty-eight. Let's go again to Niag'ra, This time we'll look at the Fall. Let's leave our hut, Dear, Get out of our rut, Dear, Let's get away from it all. --Tom Adair (19131988) American lyricist. "Let's Get Away From It All" [1940 song]. (Music by Matt Dennis.) - When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go for a good spin down the road, without thought of anything but the ride you are taking. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. Quoted in _The American Bee Keeper_ [May 1895]. The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. --attributed to Sydney J. Harris (19171986) American journalist. I am weary of swords and courts and kings. Let us go into the garden and watch the minister's bees. --Mary Johnston (18701936) American novelist. _To Have and To Hold_ [1899] Joy, and Temperance, and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Best Medicines" in _The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems_ [3rd ed., 1846]. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. --Sir John Lubbock (18341913) The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a British banker, politician, and archaeologist. _The Use of Life_, ch. IV "Recreation" [1894] Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, the faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. --Marya Mannes (19041990) American writer and critic. _But Will it Sell_ [1955-1964] Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. _Ars amatoria_ "The Art of Love", II, 351 It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (18341892) English nonconformist preacher. _Lectures To My Students_ [1875] ----- aestivate (or estivate) (verb) ['es-tκ-veyt] Spend the summer, especially in a dormant state (antonym of "hibernate"). quiescent [kwy-ES-uhnt; kwee-], adjective: Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; inactive. Ex.: A vicious but localized Sino-Japanese war raged around the Shanghai region through much of 1932. The conflict then settled into a quiescent phase for several years. --David M. Kennedy, "The Horror," _The Atlantic_, [April 1998] recumbent ih-KUM-bunt, adjective: 1. Reclining; lying down. 2. Resting; inactive; idle. repose (noun) [ree-'poz] 1. Rest or relief from exertion, sleep; 2. A state of quiet, calm and tranquility, a state of total inactivity, death. respite (noun) ['res-pit] Rest or relief from or before something unpleasantly difficult, such as work or punishment. sabbatical [suh-BAT-i-kuhl], noun: Any extended period of leave from one's customary work, especially for rest, to acquire new skills or training, etc. sedentary (adj.) ['se-dn-te-ri or 'se-dκn-te-ri] Not migratory, settled, as "sedentary birds;" doing or requiring much sitting, as "a sedentary job. supine (adj.) [su-'pIn] 1. Lying on one's back, face upwards; 2. Inactive, indifferent, apathetic.  . . see: "FOOD & DRINK" for related links - A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips. 'Good evening', it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, 'I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?' It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters in to a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them. Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox. 'Something off the shoulder perhaps?' suggested the animal, 'Braised in a white wine sauce?' 'Er, your shoulder?' said Arthur in a horrified whisper. 'But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.' Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling the animal's shoulder appreciatively. 'Or the rump is very good,' murmured the animal. 'I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there.' It gave a mellow grunt, gurgled again and started to chew the cud. It swallowed the cud again. 'Or a casserole of me perhaps?' it added. 'You mean this animal actually wants us to eat it?' whispered Trillian to Ford. 'Me?' said Ford, with a glazed look in his eyes, 'I don't mean anything.' 'That's absolutely horrible,' exclaimed Arthur, 'the most revolting thing I've ever heard.' 'What's the problem Earthman?' said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump. 'I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there inviting me to,' said Arthur, 'It's heartless.' 'Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten,' said Zaphod. 'That's not the point,' Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. 'Alright,' he said, 'maybe it is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just ... er ... I think I'll just have a green salad,' he muttered. 'May I urge you to consider my liver?' asked the animal, 'it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months.' 'A green salad,' said Arthur emphatically. 'A green salad?' said the animal, rolling his eyes disapprovingly at Arthur. 'Are you going to tell me,' said Arthur, 'that I shouldn't have green salad?' 'Well,' said the animal, 'I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point. Which is why it was eventually decided to cut through the whole tangled problem and breed an animal that actually wanted to be eaten and was capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am.' It managed a very slight bow. 'Glass of water please,' said Arthur. 'Look,' said Zaphod, 'we want to eat, we don't want to make a meal of the issues. Four rare steaks please, and hurry. We haven't eaten in five hundred and seventy-six thousand million years.' The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle. 'A very wise choice, sir, if I may say so. Very good,' it said, 'I'll just nip off and shoot myself.' He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur. 'Don't worry, sir,' he said, 'I'll be very humane.' It waddled unhurriedly off to the kitchen. --Douglas Adams (19522001) British comic radio dramatist and author. _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_ - Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own. --Nelson Algren (19091981) American novelist. _A Walk on the Wild Side_ [1956] "What Every Young Man Should Know" The concept of the "restaurant" itself originated in France. One Monsieur Boulanger, a Parisian dispenser of soups, advertised his dishes as "restoratives," or "restaurants. "The word became popular, and a few years later, in 1782, the famous Beauvillier, aware that a traveler had no chance of a decent meal at a Paris inn, organized the first proper "restaurant," with a selection of respectable dishes. After the Revolution, the idea spread quickly, and Baleine opened the trend-setting Rocher de Concale. By the early nineteenth century Paris teemed with restaurants. For haute cuisine there were Very's, Hardi's, and the Quadron Bleu, to say nothing of Tortoni's, the center of romantic intrigue and the traditional site of the duelist's last breakfast, a bracer of pβtιs, game, fish, broiled kidneys, and iced champagne. As Arthur Bryant, the British historian, concluded in _The Age of Elegance_: "With his piquante sauces and petit-plats, his gilded mirrors, bright lights and marble tables - so different from the smokey, wainscotted chop houses of London - the restaurateur was the residuary legatee of the Revolution." --Michael and Ariane Batterberry _On the Town in New York_ [1999] - ^^ His [John Bromley] favourite story, without which none of his speeches was complete, concerned a pub lunch. The sign outside the pub says, 'Come in for a pint, a pie and a friendly word.' The weary traveller pulls in, enters the pub and orders the pint and the pie. When he has taken his first sip of beer he says to the barman, 'Now, what about the friendly word?; whereupon the barman leans forward with a confidential air and says, 'Don't eat the pie.' --'The Best After-Dinner Stories', selected and introduced by Tim Heald [2003] ^^ In answer to queries, I'm pleased to report that historic John's Grill on Ellis, reopened after a disastrous fire, is unchanged from the original. The food is no worse than it ever was. --Herb Caen (19161997) American newspaper columnist. Column in "San Francisco Chronicle" [28 September 1983]. No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other. --Thomas Friedman (1953 ) American journalist. In _N.Y. Times_ [8 December 1996]. ^ Lord Glasgow, having flung a waiter through the window of his club, brusquely ordered, 'Put him on the bill.' --_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Food, Drink and Entertaining" ^ ^ One day S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa was dismayed to learn that a large American fast-food chain had opened its one hundredth restaurant in Japan, his ancestral home. 'It seems,' Hayakawa declared, 'a terrible price to pay for Pearl Harbor!' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_, edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000]. [Of Peter and John Delmonico:] Since one was a wine merchant and the other a pastry maker, they opened a cafι, the first place in New York to offer French pastry, in a two-story brick house at 23 William Street in the heart of the business district, and called it Delmonico. It was a simple place with six pine tables. Playing to their expertise, they sold pastries, cakes, coffee, wines, and Cuban cigars. Another first for New York was cups of thick and foamy hot chocolate. Initially, most of their customers were Europeans, most of whom had written home about the barbarous state of New York food and rejoiced in the new cafι. For the Americans, the initial curiosity was the first female cashier they had ever seen, a new concept, entrusting women with money. --Mark Kurlansky (1948 ) American author. _The Big Oyster_, ch. 5 "Becoming the World's Oyster" [2006] [To a waiter who had spilled soup on her dress:] Never darken my Dior again. --Beatrice Lillie (18941989) Canadian actress and comedienne. Quoted in Lore and Maurice Cowan _The Wit of Women_ [1969]. ^ Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American comedian. The maξtre d'hτtel stopped Groucho as he was about to enter the dining room of a smart Los Angeles hotel. 'I am sorry, sir, but you have no necktie.' 'That's all right,' said Groucho, 'don't be sorry. I remember the time when I had no pants.' 'I am sorry, sir,' repeated the man, 'you cannot enter the dining room without a necktie.' Groucho caught sight of a bald man in the center of the dining room and yelled, 'Look! Look at him! You won't let me in without a necktie, but you let him in without his hair!' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] {about the maξtre d'hτtel} ^ [Epitaph for a waiter:] By and by God caught his eye. --David McCord (18971997) American poet and essayist. "Remainders" [1935] Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits. --Terry Pratchett (1948 ) English science fiction writer. _Men at Arms_ [1993] ^ Writing in American Heritage for April 1997, restaurant historian J. M. Fenster described American restaurants as originating from four distinct sources: taverns, oyster stands, market eateries, and the French (and later German and Italian) restaurants which are the first to be considered restaurants proper, beginning with the opening of Delmonico's in New York on December 13, 1827. In the eighteenth century, very few people dined outside their own home, unless they were dining at the home of friends or were staying at a tavern-inn while traveling. Tavern-inns served no-nonsense fare and strong drink. They also provided something akin to a club for locals and in the case of the Committees of Correspondence helped bring about the American Revolution. [ . . . ] The oyster stands of the early nineteenth century led to later, more ambitious seafood establishments and help explain why so many venerable restaurants in this country are seafood oriented. Market- originated restaurants offered either seafood or red meat, depending upon the dominant product of nearby markets. Thus Durgin Park grew out of the Quincy Market near the wharves of Boston, and John W. Faidley Seafood in Baltimore, founded in 1886 (home of the all-lump crab cake), began as an oyster stand, while the Old Homestead in Manhattan was founded in 1868 to serve butchers and meatmen working in the old Washington Market. Jack's, the Tadich Grill, and Sam's in San Francisco each has its origins in the city's California Market in the 1860s, with the Tadich Grill going in the direction of seafood, Jack's orienting itself toward grilled meat, and Sam's combining the two. Fine dining-and the restaurant genre proper belong to that day in New York City, December 13, 1827, when two Swiss brothers named Delmonico, Peter and John, began serving customers at twelve tables. The brothers provided well-trained waiters and printed menus that listed offerings in English and French. This simple establishment was the first of eleven increasingly luxurious restaurants to bear the Delmonico name, until the last one closed in 1923; and along with other establishments - Sherry's, Louis Martin, Bustanoby's - it bore witness throughout the nineteenth century to both the appetites and the preeminence of the New York oligarchy. To experience such restaurants today, where they have survived, is to journey into the very historical texture of the cities and regions they serve. Like great hotels, restaurants are stylizations of place, connected to dreams of pleasure and transcendence. As architecture and menu, surviving American restaurants distill, hence carry through time, the memory of high moments in the urban past. From a number of perspectives, after all - the rooms themselves, most of them of a certain vintage, the photographs or other visual materials on the walls, the distinctive styles of crockery, napery, and silverware, distinctions of menu and wine service (not to mention the bar in which one waits before the meal), the commanding presence of the maitre d', the venerability of the waiters - such restaurants present a stylized encapsulization of historical memory, indeed the very physical presence of time itself. Thus Locke-Ober's evokes the Boston of Harvard, Old South Church, Ticknor & Fields, the Atlantic Monthly, William Dean Howells. Here is the Boston of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, secure in its identity, its taste, its scholarship. Keen's Steakhouse, founded in 1885, still serves a gigantic mutton chop similar to the one that English actress Lillie Langtry was hungry for one night in 190I - but was denied because ladies were not allowed in Keen's. Langtry sued in court and won, and Keen's was ordered to admit women (into a separate dining room); and for the rest of twentieth century Keen's continued to exude the Anglophilic mood of David Belasco's and Victor Herbert's New York. By contrast, "21," which began as a speakeasy, continued through the 1960s to suggest the sportiness, the sense of being on the town, of the New York of John O'Hara and Walter Winchell. Can anyone enter the busy splendor of the Berghoff in Chicago without recalling how Hurstwood leaned against the bar there in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), florid and amiable, feeling very much a man in control of his own life? To dine on an all-lump crab cake at John W. Faidley Seafood in Baltimore or finish a meal with Indian pudding at Durgin Park or savor eggs Sardou at Antoine's (poached eggs on artichoke hearts with hollandaise sauce) or a mutton chop at Jack's in San Francisco is to participate in a ritual of place that allows one, almost, to dine on time and history. All this obtains, quite clearly, to the Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood, founded in 1919, the takeoff year of twentieth-century Los Angeles. Restaurateur Joseph Musso had moved to the city in 1916 from Oregon when that state banished liquor service in restaurants. Three years later, with two other partners, one of them named Frank Toulet, he opened the Musso & Frank Grill. Just as the opening of Delmonico's prefigured the rise of New York to preeminence, so too did the opening of the Musso & Frank Grill coincide with the transformation of Los Angeles from a nice but negligible southwestern town to an important American city that, because of the film industry, had been jump-started into international recognition. These were the years in which Los Angeles absorbed more than a million and a half new residents, when it annexed the San Fernando Valley, San Pedro/Wilmington, Watts, and Venice, opened the Miracle Mile, constructed the Coliseum, the Biltmore Hotel, the City Hall, the Central Library, the Hollywood Bowl, the campuses of USC and UCLA. These were the years in which two formative industries - aviation and motion pictures - centralized themselves in the City of Angels and its immediate suburbs. Within one decade, certainly two decades, after Musso & Frank opened, Los Angeles had become, in Los Angeles Times columnist Harry Carr's terms, America's City of Dreams: an urban tabula rasa onto which, increasingly, Americans and all moviegoing peoples were projecting their longings and centering their subliminal aspirations for glamour and a better life. [ . . . ] Today, sixty, nearly seventy, years later, the Musso & Frank Grill remains a throwback to this earlier era. The decor has changed little, if at all, since the 1920s, especially the great mahogany booths and red leather banquettes in the original dining room, where customers also dine at a long counter, reading Variety or the racing form. Red-jacketed waiters are middle-aged or older and are totally devoid, as Southern California restaurant critic Orlando Ramirez points out, of that "Hi-my-name-isJason- and-I'll-be-your-server-tonight" greeting, usually uttered by aspiring-actor waiters in other Los Angeles bistros. These gentlemen and their few female counterparts are professional waiters in the old sense of the word (meaning full-time and for real), and they sustain the kind of hauteur one frequently encounters in waiters and waitresses working in historic restaurants, from Sam's in San Francisco to Durgin Park in Boston. The food they serve is equally old-fashioned. J. M. Fenster describes the Musso & Frank Grill as "a veritable safe house in the midst of trendy California cuisine. There is nary a poppy seed in sight or a blade of lemongrass. Instead, there is beef stroganoff. There are also veal scallopine, liver and onions, Welsh rarebit, and other dishes long past mere trends." To this list, one might also add such other Musso & Frank favorites as corned beef and cabbage, oyster stew, lamb kidneys, a three-inch-thick prime rib, broiled squab with bacon, pork and lamb chops, and smoked tongue. The tavern/roadhouse dimension of the Musso & Frank Grill is evident in its long-very long-bar where martinis, Manhattans, Rob Roys, stingers, and other very direct and very alcoholic drinks have remained in fashion since the repeal of Prohibition. Its market origins are evident in its usually adequate offerings of fresh fish as well as red meat. Hollywood's connection to New York can be detected in huge servings of Lindy's-style cheesecake. The spirit of Los Angeles in the 1920s, the Los Angeles of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Folks, is evident in the fact that Musso & Frank still serves Postum as well as good coffee and Jell-O. --Kevin Starr "The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood" _American Places: Encounters with History_ [2000] ^ ^ James Whistler (18341903) American artist. Whistler, priding himself on his fluency in French, insisted on doing the ordering in a fashionable Paris restaurant. His companion tried to intervene and was told, 'I am quite capable of ordering a meal in France without your assistance.' 'Of course you are,' said his friend placatingly, 'but I just distinctly heard you order a flight of steps.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ - My boyfriend and I were lunching at a sidewalk cafe in Huntington Beach, CA. Our waitress looked like a real surfer girl - athletic with a great tan and blond hair. Mulling over the menu, my guy asked her if the roast beef was rare. The waitress gave us a long blank look, then replied, "Well, no - we have it, like, just about every day." - ----- sommelier [suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY], noun: A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings. . . see: "CONSEQUENCES" see: "ENDINGS" see: "ACTIONS" for other related links see: "SUCCESS" for other related links Don't show me the palm tree, show me the dates. --Afghan Proverb By their fruits ye shall know them. --Bible New Testament, "Matthew" 7:20 Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. --Rita Mae Brown (1944 ) American writer. _Sudden Death_, ch. 3 [1984] Every one is the son of his own works. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist, _Don Quixote de la Mancha_, Pt. I, bk. IV, ch. xx [1605] - Hitch your wagon to a star. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Society and Solitude_ [1870], "Civilization" Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ "Fate" [1860] - By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means correct. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. In Eknath Easwaran _Gandhi, The Man_ [1997], p.105. Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In _Conversations with Goethe_ by Eckermann. Those who in their youth did not live in self-harmony, and who did not gain the true treasures of life, are later like long-legged old herons standing sadly by a lake without fish. --_The Dhammapada_, Buddhist scripture. Unlike virtue, courage is not its own reward. It has results. --Fay Weldon (b. 1931) British novelist. _The Heart of the Country_ [1987] ----- efficacious (adj.) Producing or capable of producing the desired effect; having the intended result. . . see: "IDLENESS" see: "LEISURE" see: "REST" see: "TRAVEL" see: "WORK" for related links see: "LIFESTYLE" for related links Soon after he left the White House, Coolidge had to fill out a form confirming his membership in the National Press Club. After writing his name and address, he moved on to the space marked "Occupation," in which he wrote "Retired." Next came "Remarks." Coolidge paused for a moment and then wrote, "Glad of it." --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_, edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard The first years of man must make provision for the last. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. _Rasselas_, ch. XVII [1759] My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh anything but work. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [1861-1865]. - I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. --Douglas MacArthur (18801964) American general. _Farewell Address to Congress_ [19 April 1951] & see: Old soldiers never die; They only fade away! --British Army song [c.1915] - Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. --Margaret Mead (19011978) American anthropologist. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. --Malcolm Muggeridge (19031990) British writer, broadcaster, and journalist. _Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography_ [1972] Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. --Alexander Pope (16881744) English poet. "Ode On Solitude" [c. 1700] I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Letter to Madame du Deffand_ [23 April 1754], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993]. . . see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for related links see: "MEETING" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory and we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them. --James A. Garfield (18311881) 20th President of the United States [1881]. Speech in Geneva, Ohio [3 August 1880]. You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it One day in some far off place I will recognize your face I won't say goodbye my friend For you and I will meet again --Tom Petty (1950 ) American folk/rock musician. _Into The Great Wide Open_ [1991] "You And I Will Meet Again" end page ;void(0)) REVENGE . . see: "ENEMIES" see: "HATE" see: "MALICE" see: "PUNISHMENT" see: "ACTIONS" for other related links see: "HURTING (SOMEONE)" for other related links - In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior, for it is a prince's part to pardon. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ [1625], "Of Revenge" A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. _Essays_ [1625], "Of Revenge" - An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot. --Bible "Exodus" 21:24 Vengence is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. --Bible "Romans" 12:19 Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse. --Bible "Proverbs" 9:7 NIV You shall not stand idly by your brother's blood. --Bible "Leviticus" 19:16 Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. --Bible "Romans" 12:17 - You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) I've labored long and hard for bread For honor and for riches But on my corns too long you've tread, You fine-haired sons of bitches. --Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (18291917?) American outlaw. In a note he left behind after he robbed a Wells Fargo stagecoach, quoted in Joseph H. Jackson _Bad Company_ [1949]. - The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" about once in a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, "and then," thought she, "what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!" --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865], "The Queen's Croquet-Ground" - Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. --Edwin Hubbel Chapin (18141880) American clergyman and author. _Living Words_ [1861] Before seeking revenge, first dig two graves. --Chinese Proverb - Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven; all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820] - Heaven hath no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Mourning Bride" [1697] Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings. And call off Christmas! --Pen Densham and John Watson "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" [1991 film] Spoken by Alan Rickman (the villain). 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1752] An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. Quoted in Louis Fischer _The Life of Mahatma Gandhi_, ch. 11 [1950]. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. --Paul Gauguin (18481903) French artist. _Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals_, trans. [1923] The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed until the pips squeak. --Eric Geddes (18751937) British politician and administrator. Speech at Cambridge [10 December 1918]. Forgiveness is better than revenge. --Heraclitus (c.535475 B.C.) Greek philosopher. (Telling the story of Pittacus of Mitylene.) Who hath not courage to revenge, will never find generosity to forgive. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. _Introduction to the Art of Thinking_ [1789] If you attend to your work, and let your enemy alone, some one else will come along some day, and do him up for you. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. --Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (18681930) American humorist. Quoted in "Indianapolis News" [4 January 1925]. - Old Irish Prayer May those that love us, Love Us. And those that don't love us May God turn their hearts. And if He can't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, so we know them by their limp! - Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind. --Juvenal (c. 55130) Roman satirist. _Satires_ - Don't get mad, get even. --Joseph P. Kennedy (18881969) American financier. In Ben Bradlee _Conversations With Kennedy_ [1975]. & see: Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even. --James Carville (1944 ) American political strategist. - Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. --attributed to Doug Larson (19021981) American journalist. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. --"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" [June 1901] The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. --May Maloo To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_ Book VI, Number 6 Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _Paradise Lost_ 9.171 [1667] Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet, but leave the handle out for immediate use. --Dwight Lyman Moody (18371899) American evangelist and publisher. In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_, p. 25 [2001], "Bitterness." It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear,' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.' --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "Thought for a Sunshiny Morning" [1928] There is no finer revenge than that which _others_ inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. --Cesare Pavese (19081950) Italian novelist, poet, and translator. _This Business of Living: Diaries 19351950_ He that corrects out of Passion raises Revenge sooner than Repentance. --William Penn (16441718) Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe. _Some Fruits of Solitude_ [1693] He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _De ira_ (On anger), III The wheel is come full circle. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _King Lear_, act. 5, sc. 3, l. 172 [16051606] Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. _Man and Superman_ [1903] "The Revolutionist's Handbook" Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. --Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) French artist. People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. --Abigail Van Buren [Pauline Esther Friedman] (1918 ) American advice columnist. In her newspaper column "Dear Abby" [7 March 1974]. [Comment in letter:] Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you. --Cornelius Vanderbilt (17941877) American shipping and railroad magnate. Quoted in Matthew Josephson _The Robber Barons_ [1934]. [Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton):] I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too. --"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939] Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. - For him that stealeth a book from this library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck by palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease for his agony until he sinks into dissolution. Let book-worms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of hell consume for ever and aye. --The Librarian at the Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona - To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife. --anon. - A farmer in the country has a watermelon patch and upon inspection he discovers that some of the local kids have been helping themselves to a feast. The farmer thinks of ways to discourage this profit eating situation. So he puts up a sign that reads, "WARNING: ONE OF THESE WATERMELONS CONTAINS CYANIDE!" The farmer returns a week later to discover that none of the watermelons have been eaten, but finds another sign that reads: "NOW THERE ARE TWO!" - ----- vendetta (noun) [ven-'de-tκ] A blood feud between families that usually begins with a murder and continues with violent reciprocation on both sides. . . see: "CRITICISM" see: "ACTORS" for other related links [Headline about rural filmgoers' rejection of motion pictures about rural life:] Sticks Nix Hick Pix. --Abel Green (19001973) American journalist. "Variety" [17 July 1935] When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank. --Liberace (19191987) American showman. _Liberace: An Autobiography_ [1973]; coined in the mid-1950s From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. (Dust jacket written for S.J. Perelman's _Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge_ [1928]) --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. In Hector Arce _Groucho_ [1979]. - It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. "New Yorker" [25 February 1928] [In book review:] This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. Quoted in _The Algonquin Wits_ (ed.) Robert E. Drennan [1968]. - I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me. (Responding to a savage review by Rudolph Lewis in Munchener Neueste Nachrichten [7 February 1906].) --Max Reger (18731916) German composer. In Nicholas Slonimsky _Lexicon of Musical Invective_ [1953]. While the critic caused me a somewhat uneasy breakfast, I contented myself with the knowledge that I had given him a perfectly ghastly evening. --Jeremy Sinden (19501996) British actor. In "The Times" [31 May 1996]. - I've just read your lousy review of [of a concert by Truman's daughter Margaret] I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay." It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work. Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below! Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry. H.S.T. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Letter to Paul Hume [6 December 1950]. - . . see: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION" see: "FREEDOM" see: "WAR & PEACE" see: "THE HUMAN RACE" Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. --Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. _Politics_, bk. V - Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. --John Bradshaw (16021659) English lawyer. He presided at the trial of Charles I. Buried in Westminster Abbey, his body was exhumed at the Restoration and hanged in public, like that of Cromwell. Quoted in Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Edward Everett [24 February 1823]. but see: Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. --Wikiquote attributes this to Edmund Andros (16371714) Early colonial English governor in North America. - 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 (1926 ) Political leader of Cuba from 1959. In _New York Times_ [22 April 1959]. Never strike a king unless you are sure you shall kill him. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Entry written in September, 1843 _Journals_ [19091914]. ^ Benjamin Franklin (17061790), American statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor. When Franklin was in France, he frequently used to play chess with the elderly Duchess of Bourbon. On one occasion Franklin put her king in check and took it. 'We do not take kings so,' remonstrated the duchess. 'We do in America,' replied Franklin. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. Letter to James Madison [30 January 1787]; referring to Shay's Rebellion. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Speaking to Latin American diplomats at the White House [12 March 1962]. 'There won't be any revolution in America,' said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. 'The people are all too clean. They spend all the time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.' --Eric Linklater (18991974) Scottish novelist. _Juan in America_, bk 5, pt 3 [1931] - The Soviet troops are assisting the Hungarian people to retain their independence from imperialism. --The London _Daily Worker_ [7 November 1956] (after the Hungarian uprising.) The Hungarian Revolution - Revolutions are never fought by turning the other cheek. Revolutions are never based upon love-your- enemy and pray-for-those-who [de]spitefully-use-you. And revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. --Malcolm X (19251965) American civil rights campaigner. _Malcolm X Speaks_ [1965] Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians. --Jean-Paul Marat (17431793) French politician, physician, and journalist, a leader of the radical Montagnard faction during the French revolution. Letter to Camille Desmoulins [24 June 1790]. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions ... Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. To Henry Stephens Randall (American politician) [23 May 1857], in Thomas Pinney (ed.) _The Letters of Thomas Babington Macauley_ [1981] v. 6, p. 96. The revolutionary is a lost man; he has no interest of his own, no cause of his own, no feelings, no habits, no belongings; he does not even have a name ... He will be an implacable enemy of this world, and if he continues to live in this world, that will only be so as to destroy it the more effectively. --Sergey Nechaev (18471882) Russian revolutionary. _Catechism of the Revolutionary_ [1869] - Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. --Wendell Phillips (18111884) American abolitionist and reformer. Speech [8 January 1852]. Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. --Wendell Phillips (18111884) American abolitionist and reformer. On John Brown, in a speech at Harper's Ferry [1 November 1859]. - If Russia chooses to develop purely on her own line and to resist the growth of liberalism, then she may put off the day of reckoning; but she cannot ultimately avert it, and ... she will sometime experience a real terror which will make the French Revolution pale. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. To Cecil Spring Rice [13 August 1897], in Elting Morison (ed.) _The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt_ v. 1 [1951] p.647. It was like a trip into the future. I could write a mile and not tell all that makes me glad these days. I have seen the future; and it works. --Lincoln Steffens (18661936) American journalist. In a letter to Marie Howe, during his visit to Russia [3 April 1919]. The Terror isolated and stupefied the deputies just as it did ordinary citizens. On entering the Assembly each member, full of distrust, watched his words and actions, lest a crime be made out of them. And indeed everything mattered: where you sat, a gesture, a look, a murmur or a smile. --Antoine Claire Thibaudeau (17651854) French politician. (On the Terror of 17931794.) The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform. --Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) French historian and politician. _L'Ancien rιgime_ [1856] Freedom of assembly is granted, but the assemblies are surrounded by the military. Freedom of speech is granted, but censorship exists as before. Freedom of knowledge is granted, but the universities are occupied by troops. Inviolability of the person is granted, but the prisons are overflowing, --Leon Trotsky (18791940) Russian revolutionary. Referring to the October Manifesto of 1905, in Sidney Harcave _First Blood_ [1964] p. 244. Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. --Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student enrolled after the 1970 shooting; in Harrison E. Salisbury {ed.} _The Eloquence of Protest: Voices of the 70s_ [1972]. ----- putsch [PUCH] ('u' as in 'push'), noun: A secretly planned and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government. sedition [sih-DISH-un], noun: Conduct or language inciting resistance to or rebellion against lawful authority. ;void(0)) REWARD . . see: "GIFTS" see: "MONEY" for other related links A poor man serv'd by thee, shall make thee rich. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861) English poet. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. - The only reward of virtue is virtue. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. "Friendship" _Essays_, First Series [1841] The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_, Second Series [1844], "Nominalist and Realist" - No good deed goes unpunished. --attributed to Clare Boothe Luce (19031987) American playwright and politician. I know, but I had a better year than Hoover. --Babe Ruth (18951948) American major-league baseball player. In 1930, responding to the complaint that his salary of $80,000 was more than the President's $75,000. He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 51 [1872]. - Published in the "Hartford Courant" in 1875: TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLAR REWARDAt the great baseball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of that umbrella in good condition to my house on Farmington avenue. I do not want the boy (in an active state) but will pay two hundred dollars for his remains. Samuel L. Clemens. --In _Mark Twain's Helpful Hints For Good Living: A Handbook For The Damned Human Race_, Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank. - You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. --Fay Weldon (1931 ) British novelist. In Randy Voorhees _Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am_, p. 87 [2001]. ----- guerdon [GUR-duhn], noun: 1. a reward 2. to reward, pay back Ex.: Thirteen dollars a month, so long as he remains a private, is the guerdon of the soldier, with free food, lodging, and medical attendance. "Our Pampered Policemen," _New York Times_, June 21, 1902 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 - REWARD | RICH (THE) - RIGHTEOUS | RIGHTS - ROLLER COASTERS | ROMANCE - RUSSIA | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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