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;void(0)) . . . SEA (THE) see: "BOATING" see: "NATURE" for other related links One ov the best temporary cures for pride and affektashun that i have ever seen tried iz sea sickness; a man who wants tew vomit never puts on airs. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885) American humorist. _Josh Billings' Wit and Humor_ [1874] "Ods and Ens" The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before You sneer, and I assure you this is true; For I have found it answer--so may you. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_, canto II, st. xiii [1819] Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere; Nor any drop to drink. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" [1798] I can't bear iced drinks . . . the iceberg, you know. Perhaps some champagne, though. {The youngest survivor of the Titanic disaster, while visiting the house in Kansas City, Missouri, in which her family would have lived - ODTQ} --Millvina Dean (1911—2009) English; last survivor of the RMS Titanic. In "The Times" [20 August 1997]. - Wild Nights!—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the Winds— To a Heart in port— Done with the Compass— Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden— Ah, the Sea! Might I but Moor—Tonight— In Thee! --Emily Dickinson (1830—1886) American poet. "Wild Nights" [c. 1861] - They didn't think much to the Ocean: The waves, they were 'fiddlin' and small, There were no wrecks and nobody drownded, Fact, nothing to laugh at at all. --Marriott Edgar (1880—1951) British poet. "The Lion and Albert" [1932] The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. --James Joyce (1882—1941) Irish novelist. _Ulysses_ [1922] It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch it — we are going back from whence we came. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963]. Speech, Newport, Rhode Island [14 September 1962]. It is certain, says [Columbus], that this is the mainland, and that I am off Zayton and Quinsay [Shanghai and Hangchow, both Chinese ports] 100 leagues [about 300 miles] distant more or less from the one and the other, and this is shown by the sea, which looks different from what it has been until now. --Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484—1566) Spanish priest and historian. _Diary_ [1530s], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_, p. 324 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: Thus on 1 Nov. 1492, coasting Cuba, [Columbus] decided he was off the Chinese mainland. There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. --James Russell Lowell (1819—1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. - "Sea-Fever" [1902] by John Masefield (1878—1967) English novelist, poet, and playwright. I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide, Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the brown spume, and the seagulls crying. I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trek's over. - Give me this glorious ocean life, this salt-sea life, this briny, foamy life, when the sea neighs and snorts, and you breathe the very breath that the great whales respire! Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea, let me race and pant out my life with an eternal breeze astern, and an endless sea below! --Herman Melville (1819—1891) American novelist and poet. _Redburn: His First Voyage_ [1849] A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. --Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (1918—2002) Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian. Attributed in "Daily Telegraph" [28 February 2002], as quoted in Ned Sherrin _Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations_ [2008 ed.]. A dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth And time and place are lost. --John Milton (1608—1674) English poet. "Paradise Lost" [1667] The sea hates a coward! --Eugene O'Neill (1888—1953) American and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. _Mourning becomes Electra_ [1931] We were three months and twenty days without getting any kind of fresh food. We ate biscuit which was no longer biscuit but its powder; swarming with worms, for they had eaten what was good. It stank strongly of rats' urine. We drank yellow water already putrid for many days ... Rats were sold for half a ducat apiece ... The gums of both the lower and upper teeth of some of our men swelled, so that they could not eat under any circumstances and therefore died. --Antonio Pigafetta _Journal_ [1525], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_, p. 329 [2004]. Cohan & Major note: An Italian gentleman, Pigafetta went along as a supernumerary and produced what is by far the most interesting account of [Magellan's] voyage. 19 men died of scurvy, and another 25 or 30 fell sick. It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. --Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. 'A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,' he said, 'for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.' --John Millington Synge (1871—1909) Irish dramatist. _The Aran Islands_ [1907] ----- fathom (noun) ['fæ-dhêm] As noun: The outstretched arms or the measure of outstretched arms; a nautical measure of 6 feet. As verb: To measure to the bottom (of a water) with a fathom pole or line; to manage to comprehend. littoral [LIH-tuh-rul], adjective: 1. Of, relating to, or on a coastal or shore region, especially a seashore. 2. A coastal region, especially the zone between the limits of high and low tides. Ex.: A country that is landlocked or has few neighbors will be more vulnerable than one that is littoral or extensive. --Franklin L. Lavin,, "Asphyxiation or Oxygen? The Sanctions Dilemma", Foreign Policy, September-October 1996 offing (noun) ['a-fing or 'ah-fing] The visible sea at a distance from the shore, beyond the anchorage. thalassic (adjective) [thê-'læ-sik] Pertaining to the sea; marine. tsunami (noun) [su-'nah-mee ] An enormous sea wave induced by a submarine earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide. undulant [UN-juh-lunt; UN-dyuh-], adjective: Resembling waves in form, motion, or occurrence.  . . As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [1605—1615] Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 10. ----- ferret [FER-it], verb: To search out, discover, or bring to light. fossick (verb) ['fa-sik] 1. To search for gold in a disorganized manner, especially in abandoned mines. 2. To fossick about: to rummage around for something, to nose about. . . see: "FREEDOM" for related links The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter! — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! --William Pitt, the Elder, also called (from 1766) 1st Earl of Chatham (1708—1778) British statesman, twice virtual prime minister [1756—1761, 1766—1768]. In Lord Brougham: _Statesmen in the Time of George III_, Vol. I. ;void(0)) SEASONS . . see: "NATURE" for related links see: "TIME" for related links Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. --Stanley Horowitz It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear: The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot; And there's a legal limit to the snow here In Camelot. The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order Summer lingers through September In Camelot. --Lerner & Loewe "Camelot" 1960 song from the stage production of the same name. Leaves drift softly earthward toward the grass Spring and summer blend from green to gold And so the seasons come full turn and pass Day follows day and each of us grows old. Somewhere there is a bright new shining day And as these seasons pace and turn We will live in joy complete and never say That for younger days our hearts still yearn. --Corby Magnuson, "The Measure of Leaves" - in 1997 kap shares with USENET his thoughts about two seasons: Fall always meant a wrestling match in a pile of leaves, taking a drive in the country to see the glorious colors, a nip in the air at the harvest festival, a pick-up football game, visits to the orchards, and the anticipation of winter which always held the possibility of cancelled school due to snow. I always loved Fall. One day I asked my mother which season she liked best. "Spring." Thinking her slightly mad, I asked, "Why?" "Because in the Spring everything comes to life and in the Fall many things die." Being young and stupid (as opposed to my present state of old and stupid), that explanation made no sense whatsoever. I filed it away in the 'dumb things my mother told me' folder. As fate would have it she died one crisp fall day. Nowdays we take the grandkids to the orchards and last year I found a pile of leaves to toss them into. We don't get much color out here in Nevada but last week on Mt. Charleston we saw an Aspen turning a slight yellow. My grandkids won't get to miss any school due to snow so we'll have to take a drive to Utah and let them see some. I wonder if they'll ever ask me which season I like the best. I'll say the Spring because life is better than death. --kap - No land with an unvarying climate can be very beautiful. The tropics are not, for all the sentiment that is wasted on them. They seem beautiful at first, but sameness impairs the charm by and by. Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. The land that has four well-defined seasons cannot lack beauty, or pall with monotony. Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual, harmonious development, its culminating graces — and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train. And I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Roughing It_ [1872], vol. II, ch. XV "Glorious Climate of California"  SECRETS/SECRECY . . see: "DISGUISE" see: "MYSTERY" see: "OBSCURITY" see: "WONDER" see: "FRIENDS / FRIENDSHIP" for other related links A man can hide all things excepting twain — That he is drunk, and that he is in love. --Antiphanes (fl. early 4th cent. B.C.) Greek comic poet. That which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. --_Bible_ "Luke" 12:3 Confidant, confidante, n.: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to him by C. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) The great secret in life [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight. At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have answered themselves. --Arthur Binstead (1861—1914) British journalist. _Pitcher's Proverbs_ [1909] Wild horses couldn't drag a secret out of most women. However, women seldom have lunch with wild horses. --Ivern Boyett The three things most difficult are—to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. --Chilon (6th cent. B.C.) One of the Seven Sages of Greece. Attributed in "Herald of Truth" [Geneva, NY, 15 January 1836]. I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where. --William Congreve (1670—1729) English dramatist. "Love for Love" [1695] Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise. --George Crabbe (1754—1832) English poet. _Tales of the Hall_ [1819] "The Maid's Story" If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told About another, make it pass Before you speak, three gates of gold. These narrow gates: First, 'Is it true?' Then, 'Is it needful?' In your mind Give truthful answer. And the next Is last and narrowest, 'Is it kind?' And if to reach your lips at last It passes through these gateways three, Then you may tell the tale, nor fear What the result of speech may be. --Beth Day "Three Gates" [1855] - To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. _Master Humphrey's Clock_ [1840] We never know wot's hidden in each other's hearts; and if we had glass winders there, we'd need keep the shutters up, some on us, I do assure you! --Charles Dickens (1812—1870) English novelist. _Martin Chuzzlewit_ [1844] - He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. - If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [August 1741] Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [July 1735] - If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, do not disclose it to your friend. --Ibn Gabirol (c.1022—c.1058) Spanish poet. _The Choice of Pearls_ If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. --Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931) Lebanese poet. _Sand and Foam_ [1926] ^ Jay Gould (1836—1892) American financier and railroad magnate. The rector of Gould's church sought the magnate's advice concerning the investment of his life's savings, amounting to about $30,000. Gould suggested, in the strictest confidence, that he should buy Missouri Pacific. The preacher followed this advice and the stock began to rise steadily, only to fall disastrously some months later. The preacher complained to Gould that he had lost all his savings. He was somewhat taken aback when Gould promptly presented him with a check for $40,000 to cover his looses. Guiltily he confessed that he had also told several members of his congregation about Gould's tip. 'Oh, I know that,' said Gould. 'They were the ones I was after.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. --Katharine Graham (1917—2001) American publisher. [4 April 1990] Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master. --Will Henry Three may keep counsel, if two be away. --John Heywood (1497—1580) English playwright. _Proverbs_ [1546] Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. --Henrik Ibsen (1828—1906) Norwegian playwright. _Pillars of Society_ [1877], Act III To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear. --Stephen King (1947— ) American author known for horror novels. A man can keep another person's secret better than his own: a woman, on the contrary, keeps her secret though she blabs all others. --Jean de La Bruyère (1645—1696) French essayist and moralist. _Les Caractères_ [1688] Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. --Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695) French poet. _Fables_ [1668—1679], (VIII, 6) How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves? --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665], Maxim 584 I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. --Philip Massinger (1583—1640) English Jacobean and Caroline playwright. _The Unnatural Combat_, Act V. Sc. 2 [c. 1621—1626] The old—like children—talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secret are one's own. --Eugene O'Neill (1888—1953) American and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. _Lazarus Laughed_ [1927] If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950) English novelist. _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, pt. 3, ch. 4 [1949] Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. --attributed to Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935) American humorist and actor. Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. 66 epigraph: "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. --attributed to Walter Winchell (1897—1972) American journalist. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart, and his friends could only read the title. --Virginia Woolf (1882—1941) English novelist. _Jacob's Room_, ch. 5 [1922] TOPICAL Trying to Remember New Passwords Isn't As Easy as ABC123 Codes in Flux Have Employees Jotting, Not Memorizing; Long Lists on a Post-It By Scott Thurm and Mylene Mangalindan The Wall Street Journal December 9, 2004 Before she begins work each morning, Kate Prior must enter eight computer passwords. Each must contain at least eight characters, and most require letters and numbers. Every three months, she must change them all. How does the 28-year-old monitor of drug trials remember her passwords? Easy: They're written on a blue Post-It note affixed to her computer. [. . . ] Petri Darby, a 31-year-old marketing manager for a Houston law firm, used sticky notes for a while. When his stack of eight notes became unwieldy, Mr. Darby transferred the 25 or 30 passwords he needs for work tasks and to access various Web sites to a small piece of paper he kept in his wallet. But the password list kept growing and the paper became unreadable. "It's driving me absolutely batty," Mr. Darby says. "I'm thinking that tattoos are the way to go." [. . . ] The thought drives some computer users up the wall. "Who has a brain to remember all these?" asks Alex Ramsey, chief executive of LodeStar Universal, a 10-person management-consulting firm in Dallas. Ms. Ramsey stashes her roughly 75 passwords in a computer file, named "Password." As a back-up, she printed out a copy that she hides under her keyboard. - -- At a dinner party, several of the guests were arguing whether men or women were more trustworthy. "No woman," said one man, scornfully, "can keep a secret." "I don't know about that," answered a woman guest. "I have kept my age a secret since I was twenty-one." "You'll let it out some day," the man insisted. "I hardly think so!" responded the lady. "When a woman has kept a secret for twenty-seven years, she can keep it forever." ----- arcanum [ar-KAY-nuhm], noun; plural arcana -nuh: 1. A secret; a mystery. 2. Specialized or mysterious knowledge, language, or information that is not accessible to the average person (generally used in the plural). Arcanum is from the Latin, from arcanus "closed, secret," from arca, "chest, box," from arcere, "to shut in." argot [AHR-go; -gut], noun: 1. A specialized and often secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group. 2. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds. cabal [kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL], noun: 1. A secret, conspiratorial association of plotters or intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn especially in public affairs. 2. The schemes or plots of such an association. 3. To form a cabal; to conspire; to intrigue; to plot. camarilla [kam-uh-RIL-uh; -REE-yuh], noun: A group of secret and often scheming advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique. cipher (noun) 1: The sign O; naught or zero. 2: A method of writing using letters and symbols with secret meaning, to conceal a message; code. Synonyms: code, cryptography Similar: cryptogram, acrostic, anagram clandestine [klan-DES-tin], adjective: Characterized by secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception. covert (adj.) ['ko-vrt] Concealed, hidden; clandestine or secretive. furtive [FUR-tiv], adjective: 1. Done by stealth; surreptitious; secret; as, a furtive look. 2. Expressive of stealth; sly; shifty; sneaky. 3. Stolen; obtained by stealth. 4. Given to stealing; thievish; pilfering. Ex.: He had always been more than willing to show me parts of [his notebook], whenever I asked him to; and naturally I had taken many furtive looks at its innermost pages when he wasn't around. --Michael Chabon, _Werewolves in Their Youth_ sub rosa [suhb-ROH-zuh], adverb: Secretly; privately; confidentially. surreptitious (adj.) [sê-rep-'ti-shês] Acting stealthily, sly and secretive; under cover, out of view. ;void(0)) SECURITY . . see: "DEFENSE" see: "LIFE" see: "MONEY" [On the security of a "safe-house":] Anybody comes near we check 'em clip and clean 'fore they get to the front door. It would take a ghost with anorexia to get in here. --Jeffrey Deaver (b. 1950) American mystery writer. _The Coffin Dancer_, ch. 14 [1998] Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. --Henry Ford (1863—1947) American car manufacturer. Distrust and caution are the parents of security. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanac_ [July 1733] Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. The ruler should employ as his security staff only such persons as have noble and proven ancestry and are closely related to him and are well trained and loyal. No foreigners, or anonymous persons, or persons with clouded antecedents are to be employed as security staff for the ruler. In a securely guarded chamber, the chief should supervise the ruler's food arrangements. Special precautions are to be taken against contaminated and poisoned food. --Kautilya {also called Canakya, or Visnugupta} (c.350—c.275 BC) Hindu statesman and philosopher. _Arthasastra_ (Book of Statecraft), in J. McNeill & J.W. Sedlar (eds.) _Classical India_ [1969]. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. --Helen Keller (1880—1968) American author and educator who was blind and deaf. _Let Us Have Faith_ [1940] There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) American poet. Letter to George Washington Greene [13 November 1872]. How well I feathered my nest. --François Rabelais (c. 1494— c. 1553] French humanist, satirist, and physician. _The Works of Francis Rabelais_, bk. II (trans. by John Ozell, et al.) [1807] The desire for security stands against every great and noble enterprise. --Tacitus [or Publius Cornelius Tacitus or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus] (c.55—c.117), Roman orator, lawyer, senator, and historian. Sir Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote tellingly of the collapse of Athens, which was the birthplace of democracy. He judged that, in the end, more than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything — security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. --Margaret Thatcher (1925— ) British conservative stateswoman and Prime Minister [1979—1990]. "The Moral Foundations of Society," Lecture in Hillsdale [Michigan] College's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "God and Man: Perspectives on Christianity in the 20th Century" [November 1994]. . . see: "EYES" see: "OBSERVATION" see: "OPINION" see: "PERCEPTION" see: "VISION" see: "THE BODY" for other related links The old people said 'Yes, it is so: these people are goblins; their eyes are at the back of their heads; they pull on shore with their backs to the land to which they are going.' --in J. C. Beaglehole _The Discovery of New Zealand_, p. 89 [1961]. (Referring to the Maori peoples' first sight of the English oarsmen at Coromandel on the North Island of New Zealand in 1852.) As a man is, so he sees. --William Blake (1757—1827) English poet. Letter to Rev. D. Trusler [23 August 1799]. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. You see but you do not observe. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. _A Scandal in Bohemia_ [1891] I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. --Leo [Ernest] Durocher (1905—1991) American professional baseball player and manager who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1994. _Nice Guys Finish Last_, bk. I [1975] - People only see what they are prepared to see. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_ [February 1864] You cannot see the mountain near. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. "Shakespeare; Or, The Poet" (essay) [c. 1841—1843] - Men who are out of humor with themselves often see their own condition in the world outside them, and everything seems amiss because it is not well with themselves. --James A. Froude (1818—1894) English historian. _Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years, 1795-1835_ [1882] - Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother hear nor see? --John Heywood (1497—1580) English playwright. _Dialogue of Proverbs_ [1546] & see: There is none so blind as they that won't see. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738] - He who does not weep does not see. --Victor Hugo (1802—1885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Misérables_ [1862] We love to see through others, but we dislike being seen through. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Maxims_ [1665] #632 What we see depends mainly on what we look for. --attributed to both Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803—1865) English banker, mathematician and astronomer. & Sir John Lubbock (1834—1913) The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a British banker, politician, and archaeologist. I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes. --Jean Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622—1673) French comic dramatist. Cosmetics are a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. --Yoko Ono (1933— ) Japanese poet and songwriter. - We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. --variously attributed to the _Talmud_, Anaïs Nin, H. Jackson Brown, David Pilbeam, "a great Korean writer," and, last but not least, anon.. note: We don't see things as they are, but as we are ourselves. --Henry M. Tomlinson (1873—1958) English novelist and journalist. _Out of Soundings_, ch. 10 [1931] - ----- crepuscular (adj.) [krê-'pês-kyu-lê(r)] Pertaining to crepuscule, twilight; dim or weak in terms of visibility. descry (transitive verb) 1: To see or make out, esp. something obscured or at a distance. Syn.: discern, distinguish 2: To find or detect by means of close study or observation. Syn.: detect , discover Related: find, notice, observe, discover myopia (noun) A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it. Synonyms: nearsightedness, shortsightedness ocular (adj.) 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