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 . . . SEX SYMBOLS see: "ACTORS" for related links - Blonde hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was my blonde hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. They would tell me that I was beautiful, wonderful, you name it. They all acted the same way. I didn't have to say a word. Just take my dress off. They just took their pleasure and ran. I didn't care. I was used to it. --Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (19261962) American actress. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden . . . people take a lot for granted and expect an awful lot for very little. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. --Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (19261962) American actress. Interview in "Life" [July 1962]. -  ;void(0)) SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) . . see: "AUTHORS" see: "STAGE" see: "THEATER" see: "WRITING" see: "PEOPLE" for other related links Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. --Bill Bryson (1951 ) American writer of humorous travel books. Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absolutely too high and will go down. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. Letter to James Hogg [March 1814]. He was not of an age, but for all time! --Ben Jonson (c.15731637) English dramatist and poet. "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakespeare" [1623] If you cannot understand my argument, and declare "It's Greek to me", you are quoting Shakespeare; if you claim to be more sinned against than sinning, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you recall your salad days, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you act more in sorrow than in anger, if your wish is father to the thought, if your lost property has vanished into thin air, you are quoting Shakespeare; if you have ever refused to budge an inch or suffered from green-eyed jealousy, if you have played fast and loose, if you have been tongue-tied, a tower of strength, hoodwinked or in a pickle, if you have knitted your brows, made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not one wink, stood on ceremony, danced attendance (on your lord and master), laughed yourself into stitches, had short shrift, cold comfort or too much of a good thing, if you have seen better days or lived in a fool's paradise why, be that as it may, the more fool you, for it is a foregone conclusion that you are (as good luck would have it) quoting Shakespeare; if you think it is early days and clear out bag and baggage, if you think it is high time and that that is the long and short of it, if you believe that the game is up and that truth will out even if it involves your own flesh and blood, if you lie low till the crack of doom because you suspect foul play, if you have your teeth set on edge (at one fell swoop) without rhyme or reason, then to give the devil his due if the truth were known (for surely you have a tongue in your head) you are quoting Shakespeare; even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing, if you wish I were dead as a door-nail, if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded or a blinking idiot, then by Jove! O Lord! Tut, tut! for goodness' sake! what the dickens! but me no buts it is all one to me, for you are quoting Shakespeare. --Bernard Levin, adapted from Robert McCrum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil _The Story of English_ [Viking, 1986]. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. (On Shakespeare.) People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful. --Napoleon I (17691821) Emperor of France [18041815]. _The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon's Life in His Own Words_ (ed. R. M. Johnston) [1910] Saw 'Romeo & Juliet,' a play of itself the worst that I ever heard in my life 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life 'Twelth Night,' acted well, though it be but a silly play. --Samuel Pepys (16331703) English diarist and naval administrator. _Diary_ [29 September 1662] - The girls today in society Go for classical poetry, So to win their hearts, You must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides; But the poet of them all, Who will start them simply ravin' Is the poet people call The bard of Stratford-on-Avon! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, Start... quoting him now! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow! Just declaim a few lines from Othello And she'll think you're a hell of a fellow; If your blonde won't respond when you flatter her, Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer If she fights when her clothes you are mussing What are clothes? much ado About nussing! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, And they'll all kowtow! --Cole Porter (18921964) American songwriter. "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" [1948 song from the show _Kiss Me Kate_ ] - With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] _The Saturday Review_ [22 September 1896] The Devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] Quoted in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham _And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. xv [1992]. - [Attributed 1901 remark to Anton Chekhov after seeing Uncle Vanya:] You know I can't stand Shakespeare's plays, but yours are even worse. --Leo Tolstoy (18281910) Russian novelist. Shakespeare, Madam, is obscene, and thank God, we are sufficiently advanced to have found it out! --Frances Trollope (17801863) English author [mother of Anthony Trollope.] Quoting a remark made to her by an American in: _Domestic Manners of the Americans_ [1832]. Englishmen believe in ghosts no more than the Romans did, yet they take pleasure in the tragedy of "Hamlet", in which the ghost of a king appears on the stage. Far be it from me to justify everything in that tragedy; it is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy. Hamlet becomes crazy in the second act, and his mistress becomes crazy in the third; the prince slays the father of the mistress under the pretence of killing a rat, and the heroine throws herself into the river. [...] One would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage. --Voltaire (Franηois Marie Arouet) (16941778) French writer and philosopher. _Thιβtre Complet_ [1768], in H.H. Furness (ed.) _A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare_ [1877]. - [Of Shakespeare:] A great man! Why, I doubt if there are six his equal in the whole of Boston. --said to William Gladstone by an unnamed Bostonian.  SHALLOW . . see: "CHARACTER" for related links If you can go past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater [on Oscar night] without a sense of the collapse of the human intelligence; if you can stand the hailstorm of flash bulbs popping at the poor patient actors who, like kings and queens, have never the right to look bored; if you can glance out over this gathered assemblage of what is supposed to be the elite of Hollywood and say to yourself without a sinking feeling, 'In these hands lie the destinies of the only original art the modern world has conceived'; if you can laugh, and you probably will, at the cast-off jokes from the comedians on the stage, stuff that wasn't good enough to use on their radio shows; if you can stand the fake sentimentality and the platitudes of the officials and the mincing elocution of the glamour queens (you ought to hear them with four martinis down the hatch); if you can do all these things with grace and pleasure, and not have a wild and forsaken horror at the thought that most of these people actually take this shoddy performance seriously; and if you can then go out into the night to see half the police force of Los Angeles gathered to protect the golden ones from the mob in the free seats but not from that awful moaning sound they give out, like destiny whistling through a hollow shell; if you can do all these things and still feel next morning that the picture business is worth the attention of one single intelligent, artistic mind, then in the picture business you certainly belong. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. _The Atlantic_ [1946] - For many years, after one of my pictures opened, a very intelligent letter would arrive from a woman living in Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. The letters were well written, in a beautiful feminine hand in lavender ink, each a favorable critique of the movie. Intrigued, I answered. A correspondence sprang up which became warmer and friendlier over the years. I wondered what she looked like. I pictured someone like Louise Livingston, tall and dark, walking along the banks of the Avon, composing verses. One day, a book of verse did arrive. _Poems for K_, each poem inspired by a scene from one of my movies. The tempo of our correspondence increased. We both fell in love with me. Now, more than ever, I was anxious to meet her, face to face, "breath to breath, where hushed awakenings are dear." I rented a lovely flat in Belgravia, with a little garden. When I got settled in, I called her on the phone, lowered my voice. "Hello, Kirk here." "Yes, of course, that same voice." And she sounded just the way I thought she would. I invited her to my flat for tea. That seemed the proper invitation. I would send my car and driver. "Five o'clock," she said. "That would be fine." My voice got lower. It was a typical London day, drizzling. The butler lit a fire in the fireplace. I wore a velvet lounging jacket with an ascot. I wanted our first meeting to be perfect. The doorbell rang. "I'll get it," I told the butler. I slowly walked to the door and opened it. I wasn't quite prepared. She was extremely short, ugly, and leaned on a cane, looking up at me through very thick glasses. I tried to conceal my shock. "Please, come in." She hobbled past me into the room. That's when I noticed the hump on her back. I tried to cover my hysteria by being overly polite and solicitous, pouring tea and offering sandwiches. She had the same musical voice I had heard on the telephone, but she didn't say much, because I did most of the talking, hastily, perspiration on my hands and forehead in spite of the cold London afternoon. She didn't stay long and politely bade me good-bye. I never heard from her again. Maybe she was disappointed in finding something ugly in me that could not see something beautiful in her. I've often wondered. --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916 ) American film actor and producer. _The Ragman's Son_ [1988], Ch. 24 - You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. --attributed to Erica Jong (b. 1942) American novelist. Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound. --attributed to Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist. Only the Shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. ----- flibbertigibbet [FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it], noun: A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities. . . see: "BLUSHING" see: "CONSCIENCE" see: "GUILT" see: "MODESTY" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many good ones; and one base deed, after years of noble service, will cover them all with shame. --James H. Aughey (18281911) American clergyman. The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous. --Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld [nιe Aikin] (17431825) English poet. "An Inquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite Agreeable Sensations" in Lucy Aikin (ed.) _The Works of Anna Lζtitia Barbauld_ [2 vol., 1825]. The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. Quoted in "The Spectator" [28 May 1712]. If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. Attributed in _Presbyterian Outlook_, vol 143, issue 4 [1961]. Take this remark from *Richard* poor and lame, Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1734] 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] There is a good reason the words 'shameful' and 'shameless' define the same conduct. You know you've behaved shamefully if you have exposed other people to needless annoyance or embarrassment. You don't know you've behaved shamelessly if you don't get this point. --Christopher Hitchens (1949 ) British journalist, author, and literary critic. "The Death of Shame" in _Vanity Fair_ [March 1996] No one can disgrace us but ourselves. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (18191881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribners Magazine." [Professor Wagstaff, (Groucho Marx) :] You're a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff, if such a thing is possible. --"Horse Feathers" [1932 movie] Screenplay by Will B. Johnstone, Bert Kalmar, S.J. Perelman, and Harry Ruby. When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a sense of shame. --Harold Nicolson (18861968) English diplomat, politician, and writer. Quoted in Sidney Greenberg _A Treasury of the Art of Living_, p. 143 [1963]. Remember when what is now called publicity was called public shame and humiliation? --P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947) American political satirist. Writing in "The American Spectator". Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. --Sir Salman Rushdie (1947 ) Indian-born British novelist. _Shame_ [1983] What! canst thou say all this and never blush? --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Titus Andronicus_, V, I [early 1590s] If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher.] _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, ch. XXIX [1852] I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. --Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pιrigord (17541838) French statesman. Quoted in _Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand; Edited from the Papers of the Late M. Colmache, Private Secretary to the Prince_, vol. 2 [2 vol. 1848]. ----- brazen [BREY-zuhn], adjective: 1. Shameless or impudent. 2. Made of brass. inglorious (adj.) [in-'glo-ri-yκs] Lacking in glory or pride, hence shameful or dishonorable. odium (noun) ['o-dee-κm] The stain of deepest dishonor, such as disgrace from evil behavior; hatred or repulsion elicited by degenerate acts. This word is stronger than hatefulness.  SHARING . . Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly, than to know them only here and there; yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. Attributed in Catherine Sinclair _The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms_ [1851]. I am but a gatherer, and a disposer of other men's stuff. If the world like it not, so much the worse for them. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. - If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "On Sharing Knowledge" in _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] Let us possess things in common; for birth is ours in common. Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. "On the Usefulness of Basic Principles" in _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] - Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn (19182008) Russian novelist. _The First Circle_, p. 3 [1968] . . see: "PEOPLE" for related links Oh dear me it's too late to do anything but *accept* you and *love* you but when you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once. --Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Stella Tanner] (18651940) British stage actress. Letter to GBS [1 November 1912]. A strange lady giving an address in Zurich wrote him a proposal thus: 'You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' Shaw asked: "What if the child inherits my body and your brains?" --Hesketh Pearson (18871964) English actor and biographer. _George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality_ [1963] I remember coming across him at the Grand Canyon and finding him peevish and refusing to admire it or even look at it properly. He was jealous of it. --J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (18941984) English novelist, playwright and critic. _Thoughts in the Wilderness_ [1957] - In 1934 he [Shaw] excused Hitler's violence and brutality. In 1935 he demanded that his friends give him the fascist salute, and he ended articles in defense of Nazism with a "Heil Hitler." When Nazi battalions attacked Poland in September [1939], Shaw was ready to announce to the BBC that "Mr. Hitler did not begin this war; we did"; and he maintained elsewhere that "we are not the terrified victims of Mr. Hitler's aggression: quite the reverse." After Britain had entered the war, Shaw still eulogized the German dictator for "moral courage" and "diplomatic sagacity." "I have no prejudice against him personally: much that he has written and spoken echoes what I myself have written and said." Shaw admired Mussolini even more than Hitler Shaw defends both Mussolini's torturing of political prisoners with overdoses of castor oil and the bombings in 1935 of defenseless Abyssinians. In Italy's African war, he [Shaw] favored "the necessary intimidation" of the Abyssinian natives to the point of necessary "extermination." --Arnold Silver, _Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side_, Stanford, 1982, pp. 38-39. and note: When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and made it possible for a stranger to travel there without being killed by the native Danakils he was rendering the same service to the world as we had in rendering by the same methods (including poison gas) in the north west provinces of India, and had already completed in Australia, New Zealand, and the Scottish highlands. It was not for us to throw stones at Musso, and childishly refuse to call his puppet king Emperor. But we did throw stones, and made no protest when his star was eclipsed and he was scandalously lynched in Milan. --GBS, Preface (1945) to _Geneva_ (1938), in _Complete Plays with Prefaces_, Vol. V, [1963], p. 642. - Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend if you have one. (Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back, "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second if there is one.") --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. Quoted in William Manchester _The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932_ [1983]. - [Of George Bernard Shaw:] He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Quoted by W.B. Yeats in his 1891 review of Wilde's _Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories_. You invite Shaw down to your place because you think he will entertain your friends with brilliant conversation. But before you know where you are he has chosen a school for your son, made your will for you, regulated your diet and assumed all the privileges of your family solicitor, your housekeeper, your clergyman, your doctor and your dressmaker. When he has finished with everyone else he incites the children to rebellion. And when he can find nothing more to do he goes away and forgets all about you. --anonymous hostess, quoted in Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) American author, humorist, and publisher, _Shake Well Before Using_ [1948] ;void(0)) SHEEP . . see: "ANIMALS" see: "FOLLOWERS" see: "INDIVIDUALITY" see: "OPINION" You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. _Zuleika Dobson_ [1911] [Describing Clement Attlee:] A sheep in sheep's clothing. --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. Quoted in Geoffrey Willans and Charles Roetter _The Wit of Winston Churchill_ [1954]. In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. [On the 'woolly-bearded poet' Sturge Moore:] A sheep in sheep's clothing. --Edmund Gosse (18491928) English translator and literary historian. Quoted in Ferris Greenslet _Under the Bridge_ [1943]. We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who have gone astray, Baa - aa - aa! Gentlemen rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Baa! --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. _Gentlemen Rankers_, (also known as_The Whiffenpoof Song_) It is better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep. --Benito Mussolini (18831945) Italian Fascist dictator. In Denis Mack-Smith _Mussolini's Roman Empire_ [1967]. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. --Thomas Love Peacock (17851866) English satirist and author. "The Misfortune of ElphinThe War-Song of Dinas Vawr" On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin "ovis," a sheep. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Parallel Lives_, Dryden edition [1693] - We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Quoted in Harriet Elinor Smith _Autobiography of Mark Twain_ [2010]. "Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had." "Satan!" "Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety-nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end." --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _The Mysterious Stranger_ [1916], ch. 9 - It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. --Virgil (7019 B.C.) Roman poet. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 324 [1908 ed.]. We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating. --Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (18741956) American industrialist and founder of IBM. - A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ... I have thought of all by turns and yet do lie Sleepless! --William Wordsworth (17701850) English poet. _To Sleep_ II "A Flock of Sheep" & see: Wordsworth ... was a silly old sheep. --Ezra Pound (18851972) American expatriate poet and critic. Quoted in K. L. Goodwin _The Influence of Ezra Pound_ [1966]. - -- Australia: Where men are men and sheep are nervous. There was an old man of Khartoum Who kept a tame sheep in his room, "To remind me," he said, "Of someone who's dead, But I never can recollect whom." --anon. Some people count sheep, using numbers To hasten and lengthen their slumbers, But my nostrum entails Just curvaceous females, For I prefer figures to numbers. --anon. ----- lackey (noun) A servile follower. 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