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SILLINESS --- SIMPLICITY --- SIMPSON'S --- SIN
SINATRA (FRANK) --- SINCERITY
SINGING

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SILLINESS

see: "ABSURDITIES"
see: "NONSENSE"


He who writes nothing silly writes nothing great.
--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story writer.

No man is exempt from saying silly things;
the mischief is to say them deliberately.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.

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A man walks into a shoe store and tries on a pair of shoes.
"How do they feel?" asks the sales clerk.
"Well, ... they feel a bit tight," replies the man.
The assistant promptly bends down and has a look at the
shoes and the mans feet.
"Try pulling the tongue out," offers the clerk.
"Nath theyth sthill feelth a bith tighth," he says.



SIMPLICITY

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see: "BREVITY"
see "HAPPINESS" for other related links


To find the universal elements enough; to find the
air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by
a morning walk or an evening saunter ... to be
thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over
a birds' nest or a wildflower in spring — these
are some of the rewards of the simple life.
--John Burroughs (1837—1921)
American naturalist and writer.

All the great things are simple, and many can be
expressed in a single word: freedom; justice;
honor; duty; mercy; hope.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all
high bred deportment, in every country.
--James Fenimore Cooper (1789—1851)
American novelist.
_The American Democrat_ [1838]

The greatest results in life are usually attained by
simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities.
These may for the most part be summed up in these
two — common sense and perseverance.
--Owen Feltham (c. 1610—c. 1678)
English religious writer.

What is easy is seldom excellent.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass
of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier,
the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel
that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal
heart.
--Nikos Kazantzakis (1883—1957)
Cretan civil servant and foreign correspondent.
_Zorba the Greek_ [1946]

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
--Leonardo da Vinci (1452—1519)
Florentine painter, sculptor, musician, and scientist.

Less is more.
--Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
German-born architect and designer,
in Philip Johnson _Mies van der Rohe_ [1947].

Our life is frittered away by detail. . .
Simplify, simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_ [1854]

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facile [FAS-uhl], adjective:
1. Easily done or performed; not difficult.
2. Arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; as,
"too facile a solution for so complex a problem."
3. Ready; quick; expert; as, "he wields a facile pen."
Ex.: Today, the nuclear projects in Iran, Iraq, and North
Korea forbid the facile conclusion that the atomic weapons
age is conclusively ended.
--Abba Eban,
_Diplomacy for the Next Century_



SIMPSONS (THE)

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see "HUMOR" for related links


Maybe for once, someone will call me "Sir"
without adding, "you're causing a scene."
--Homer

Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out
of things is important to learn. It's what separates
us from the animals! Except the weasel.
--Homer

You tried your hardest and you failed miserably.
The lesson here is: "Never Try!"
--Homer Simpson

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't
strike. You just go in every day and do it
really half-assed. That's the American way.
--Homer

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone,
and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world
has ever known.....then she went as crazy as a loon.
--Lisa Simpson of "The Simpsons"

MARGE: Homer, sitting that close to the TV can't be good for you.
HOMER: Talklng while the TV's on can't be good for you.
--Julie Thacker, dialogue "Last Tap Dance in Springfield,"
_The Simpsons_ Fox TV [2000]

The answer to life's problems is not at
the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV.
--Homer J. Simpson

But if I pay attention to you, I have to
stop watching T.V. You can see the
bind I'm in.
--Homer J. Simpson

Cable. It's more wonderful than I dared hope.
--Homer J. Simpson

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so
much more time raising us than you have.
--Bart Simpson



SIN

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see: "IMMORALITY"

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He that is without sin among you, let him
first cast a stone at her.
--Bible
"New Testament, John" 8:7


Be sure your sin will find you out.
--Bible
"Numbers" 32:23

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Most people repent of their sins by thanking God
they ain't so wicked as their neighbor.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818-1885)
American humorist.

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will
keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that
are worth committing.
--Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
English novelist, essayist, and critic.
_The Note-Books of Samuel Butler_, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1907] "Life"'

{when asked by Mrs Coolidge what a sermon
had been about, c. 1925}
'Sins,' he said.
'Well, what did he say about sin?'
'He was against it.'
--Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929].
In John H. McKee _Coolidge: Wit and Wisdom_; perhaps apocryphal.

No sin to cheat the devil.
--Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
English novelist and journalist.
_History of the Devil_, pt. II, ch. 10.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the
highest excellencies, are open likewise to the
greatest aberrations.
--Renι Descartes (1596-1650)
French philosopher and mathematician.
_Discourse on Method and the Meditations_ [1637]

The gods
Visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
--Euripides (485?-406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Phrixus_, fragment 970

1. Politics without Principle.
2. Wealth without Work.
3. Pleasure without Conscience.
4. Knowledge without Character.
5. Commerce without Morality.
6. Science without Humanity.
7. Worship without Sacrifice.
--Mohandas K. Gandhii (1869-1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
"Seven Sins"

Should we all confess our sins to one another
we would all laugh at one another for our lack
of originality.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author
has provided himself with a moral--the truth,
namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation
lives into the successive ones.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_ [1851]

Fashions in sin change.
--Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
American dramatist.
"Watch on the Rhine" [1941]

Sin has many tools, but a lie is
the handle which fits them all.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858]

The only sure-enough sinner is the man
who congratulates himself that he is
without sin.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
--Florynce R. Kennedy (1916-2001)
American lawyer, feminist, and author.

A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the
best declaimer against sin.
--Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
English essayist.
_The Works of Charles Lamb_, p. 528 [1852]

The sins of youth are paid for in old age.
--Latin proverb

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us
than to our fathers, he is as busy with us
as with them.
--James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.

A man does not sin by commission only,
but often by omission.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
Roman emperor [161-180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, Book IX, Number 5

His face was filled with broken commandments.
--John Masefield (1878-1967)
English novelist, poet, and playwright.
In Robert Andrews
_The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, P. 74 [1989].

Home is heaven and orgies are vile
But you need an orgy, once in a while.
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"Home, 99 44/100% Sweet Home"
_The Primrose Path_ [1935]

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It is not the sins but with the sinners
that most men are angry.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
"On Anger" in _Moral Essays_ tr. John W. Basore [1928]


Who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_Troades_ tr. Frank Justus Miller [1917]


Other men's sins are before our eyes;
our own are behind our backs.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures
is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925.
_The Devil's Disciple_ [1897], act II

Well, there's a Book that says we're all
sinners and I at least chose a sin that's
made quite a few people happier than
they were before they met me.
--Sally Stanford (1903-1982)
American Madam, politician, and author.

I's wicked, I is.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
American writer and philanthropist.
_Uncle Tom's Cabin_ [1852]

When women go wrong, men go
right affter them.
--Mae West (1893-1980)
American stage and film actress.
In Joseph Weintraub
_The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West_ [1967].

All the things I really like to do are either
immoral, illegal, or fattening.
--Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
American dramatic and literary critic.
In Robert F. Drennan
_The Algonquin Wits_ [1968].

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Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony,
envy and sloth are the seven capital sins.
--A Catechism of Christian Doctrine for General Use [1866]

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God's plan made a hopeful beginning,
But man spoiled his chances by sinning.
We hope that the story
Will end in God's glory,
But at present the other side's winning.
--anon.

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peccable (adj.) ['pek-κ-bκl]
Sinful, capable of sin or wrong-doing.



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SINATRA (FRANK)

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see "MUSIC" for related links
see "PEOPLE" for related links


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Anne and I joined Frank Sinatra at Jimmy's, a
nightclub. I knew Frank for fifty years. He was
a charismatic character, a heavy drinker and a
heavy smoker. But it never seemed to affect that
glorious voice.

[. . . ]

Did he remember the girls screaming his name outside
of the Paramount Theater sixty years ago? I remember
I was trying to work my way through the crowd to get
to the Forty-second Street subway station.

Here now was Frank, in his cocoon. He never came out
of it. It was hard to imagine someone overflowing with
vitality and talent rendered so helpless.

--Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916— )
American film actor and producer.
_My Stroke of Luck_ [2002], "Death Takes a Holiday"

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It is rare, if it has ever happened before, that the
industry of a single man can tell us so much about
our hopes and aspirations; the dreams we dreamed,
the things we wished for. . . and the stuff out there
that often eluded our grasp. All in the guise of a
song. Sinatra remains the patron saint of every
popular singer who has opened his mouth since he
first opened his. He is the chairman of the board
and disenfranchised of all ages.
--Rod McKuen (1933— )
American poet, composer, and singer.
[In 1990.]

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Ben Gross, the radio editor of the New York "Daily News"
once wrote that he didn't consider Frank SInatra to be
the best singer in the world.

Fans of the singer weren't pleased. One wrote:
"You should burn in oil, pegs should be driven into
your body and you should be hung by your thumbs."

Said another:

"I'd love to take you to Africa, tie you to the ground,
pour honey on you and let the ants bite you to pieces."



SINCERITY

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see: "HONESTY"


No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they
mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean
half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their
talk and judge only their actions.
--Dorothy Day (1897—1980)
American journalist, reformer, and co-founder of the "Catholic Worker."

Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics
are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are
sincere. They can't all be right. Better make certain
first you've got something to be sincere about and
with.
--Tom Driberg [William Hickey, pen name] (1905—1976)
British journalist and politician.
In "Daily Express" [1937].

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and
a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
"Intentions" [1891]



SINGING

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see "MUSIC" for related links


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But without question the highlight came when the
entire crowd — not just us older folks in our 50s,
but also the young people in their late 40s — joined
together to sing "Barbara Ann," all of us united
for the moment by our inability to remember that
one verse that goes something like:

Tried Betty Sue
Did the boogaloo
Went to the zoo
And I saw a tiger poo

--Dave Barry (1947— )
American humorist.

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What the mother sings to the cradle goes
all the way down to the coffin.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.]
_Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1887]

A bird does not sing because it has an
answer...it sings because it has a song.
--Chinese Proverb

Swans sing before they die; 'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
"On a Bad Singer"

He was an average guy who
could carry a tune.
(Crosby's own suggestion for his epitaph.)
--Bing Crosby (1903—1977)
American singer and film actor.
In "Newsweek" [24 October 1977].

A good lyric should be rhymed conversation.
--Ira Gershwin (1896—1983)
American songwriter.
In Philip Furia _Ira Gershwin_ [1966].

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
--E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896—1981)
American songwriter.
[Lecture given at a New York City YMCA in 1970.]

A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them;
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Voiceless_ [1858]

Her singing was mutiny on the high Cs.
--Hedda Hopper [Elde Furry] (1890—1966)
American actress and gossip columnist.

There is delight in singing, though
none hear beside the singer.
--Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
English poet, essayist, and critic.
"To Robert Browning"

Today one hardly ever hears a really beautiful and technically
correct trill; very rarely a perfect mordent; very rarely a
rounded coluratura, a genuine unaffected soul-moving
portamento, a complete equalization of the registers, a steady
intonation through all the varying nuances of crescendo and
diminuendo.
--Richard Wagner (1813—1883)
German composer.

I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success.
I am saddest when I sing. So are those who
hear me. They are sadder even than I am.
--Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] (1834—1867)
American humorist and writer.
_Artemus Ward's Lecture_ [1866]


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