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SLOGANS || SMELL || SMILES

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see: "BED"
see: "DREAMS"
see: "NIGHT"
see: "REST"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


The worst things:
To try to sleep and sleep not.
To wait for one who comes not.
To try to please and please not.
--Arabian Proverb

[Suggested epitaph for a movie star:]
She sleeps alone at last.
--Robert Benchley (1889—1945)
American humorist and newspaper columnist.
Quoted in Edmund Fuller _2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions_ [1943].

Without a wink of sleep.
--Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616)
Spanish novelist.
_Don Quixote de la Mancha_, pt. 1, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1605]

Six, or at most seven, hours sleep is, for a constancy,
as much as you or any body can want; more is only
laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both
unwholesome and stupefying.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [26 December 1749].

Early to bed and early to rise makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
--John Clarke (1596—1658)
Comp. _Proverbs: English and Latine_ [1639]

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance,
yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every
night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every
morning to keep it late.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_ [1865 ed.]

You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;
You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule
Should ever be kept at the front:—
Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
--Edmund Vance Cooke (1866—1932)
Canadian poet.
"Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed", l. 7 [1903]

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
--French Proverb

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
--Thomas C. Haliburton (1796—1865)
Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known
as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick.
_Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances_, vol. 2, p. 106 [2 vol., 1853]

One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

A good laugh and a long sleep are
the best cures in the doctor's book.
--Irish proverb

I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You,
my dearest love. I never touch even pudding.
--Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)
British naval commander.
Letter to Lady Emma Hamilton [1800].

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon.
--Franηois Rabelais (c. 1494— c. 1553]
French humanist, satirist, and physician.
_Gargantua and Pantagruel_, bk. I, ch. XLI [c. 1548]

She slept the sleep of the just.
--Jean Racine (1639—1699)
French playwright.
_Abrιgι de l'histoire de Port-Royal_, vol IV [c. 1697]

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly
enjoyed, must be interrupted.
--Jean Paul Richter (1763—1825)
German novelist.
_Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces_, ch. VIII [Eng. trans., 1877]

Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world
being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is
asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.
--Dean Rusk (1909—1994)
American politician.
Speech to the American Bar Association,
Atlanta, Georgia [22 October 1964].

To all, to each! a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
--Sir Walter Scott (1771—1832)
Scottish novelist and poet.
_Marmion_, VI [1808]

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To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, III, i [1601]


PISANIO: I have not slept one wink.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Cymbeline_, III, iv [1609]

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When I am in the pulpit, I have the pleasure of
seeing my audience nod approbation while they
sleep.
--attributed to Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist, in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review."

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,—
I have to go to bed by day.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
"Bed in Summer" [1885]

I'm going to the Land of Nod.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.
_A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious
Conversation_ [1738], "Third Conversation"

Early to rise and early to bed makes a
male healthy and wealthy and dead.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks" in _New Yorker_ [18 February 1939].

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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.

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hypnagogic [hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik], adjective:
Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of
drowsiness preceding sleep.

somniferous [som-NIF-uhr-uhs], adjective:
Causing or inducing sleep.

soporific [sop-uh-RIF-ik; soh-puh-], adjective:
1. Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by sleepiness
or lethargy.

stertorous [STUR-tuh-ruhs], adjective:
Characterized by a heavy snoring or gasping sound;
hoarsely breathing.





SLOGANS

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see: "CAPITALISM" for related links
see: "POLITICS" for related links


Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!
--William Allen (1803—1879)
Democratic Representative and Senator from the
U.S. state of Ohio, as well as Governor of Ohio.
In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.)
_History in Quotations_, p. 624 [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
War-cry of Americans who wanted the entire Oregon Territory
in the Pacific Northwest, disputed between the United States
and Britain. Its notional northern boundary was latitude 54
degrees 40 minutes north, but in 1846 the US accepted the
compromise boundary of the 49th parallel, already established
as the frontier between the United States and Canada by an
Anglo-American treaty of 1818.

Burn, baby, burn!
--Black Panthers Party slogan [c. 1968].

I've got what it takes to take what you've got.
--James H. Boren (b. 1925)
American bureaucrat, professional speaker, and humorist.
Slogan while running for president in 1984.

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Better dead than Red.
--Anti-Communist slogan.


Better Red than dead.
--Nuclear disarmament slogan of the late 1950s.

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FOUR LEGS GOOD. TWO LEGS BAD.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Animal Farm_, ch. 3 [1945]

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Hell no. we won't go!
--Anti-Vietnam War slogan.


Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
--Anti-Vietnam War slogan.

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A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
--Slogan of the protesters against conscription in New York, [13 July 1863],
in M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004].
Cohan & Major explain:
The phrase originated in the South in 1861. $300
bought exemption from the draft, introduced by
Lincoln in the summer to replenish the Union Army.

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POLITICAL

Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
--Whig (Harrison-Tyler) campaign [1840].

As Maine goes, so goes the nation.
--Political saying [c. 1840s]

We Polked You in '44, We Shall
Pierce You in '52.
--Democratic (Pierce) campaign [1852]

Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine,
The Continental liar from the State of Maine.
--Political taunt used by the Democrats
during the presidential campaign of 1884.
(Blaine supporters responded with their own
taunt:
'Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?
Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.'
(Candidate Cleveland acknowledged that he
had fathered an illegitimate child - GBAQ.)

McKinley drinks soda water,
Bryan drinks rum,
McKinley is a gentleman,
Bryan is a bum.
--Republican (McKinley) campaign [1900]

A Chicken in Every Pot. A Car in Every Garage.
--Republican (Hoover) campaign [1928]

Prosperity Is Just Around the Corner.
--Republican campaign slogan [1932]

I Like Ike.
--Republican (Eisenhower) campaign [1952]

We're Madly For Adlai.
--Democratic (Stevenson) campaign [1956]

Would you buy a used car from this man?
--Slogan directed against Richard Nixon [1960]

All the way with LBJ.
--Democratic campaign slogan [1964]

We are the people we have been waiting for.
--Obama campaign [2008]

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ADVERTISING

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh what a relief it is.
--Alka-Seltzer

I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
--Alka-Seltzer

Mama Mia, that's a spicy meatball!
--Alka-Seltzer

Brylcreem — A little dab'll do ya.
--Brylcreem hair lotion

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.
--Camel cigarettes

That's what Campbell's soup is--Mmmm Mmmm Good!
--Campbell's Soup

See the USA in your Chevrolet!
--General Motors Corp.
(Commercial sung by Dinah Shore.)

When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.
--E.F. Hutton brokerage

It keeps going, and going, and going ...
--Energizer batteries

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.
--Federal Express delivery service

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride...
--part of a 1920s advertisement for Listerine [invented in 1879 as surgical
antiseptic], for its newly invented use as a mouthwash against halitosis, in
Katherine Ashenburg, _The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History_ [2007].

Believe me, Ovaltine's got what it takes
to help you be a leader in your gang.
--"Captain Midnight"
Radio serial from 1938 to 1949.
Ovaltine took over sponsorship in 1940.

Exhilarating, invigorating, aids digestion.
--Pepsi ad [1903]

We'd rather fight than switch!
--Tareyton cigarettes

It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
--Timex watches

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shibboleth [SHIB-uh-lith; -leth], noun:
1. A peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode
of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular group
of persons.
2. A slogan; a catchword.
3. A common saying or belief with little current
meaning or truth.





SMELL

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see: "NOSE"
see: "SENSES (THE)"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


Examples of this sweat-detection ability are
amazingly impressive [...] Bloodhounds can
follow a trail that is as much as four days old
and track a subject for up to a hundred miles.
The scent from human feet is so strong to a
dog that it can identify individual feet even
in areas where many other feet have trodden,
and where shoes have been worn by all
concerned.
--Desmond Morris (b. 1928)
English anthropologist and author.
_Dogwatching_ [1993]

There is no odor so bad as that which
arises from goodness tainted.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Walden_, ch. I "Economy" [1854]

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After my husband died I would go into his closet and hug
his suits, because they smelled of his own body odor, slight
cigarette smell, and aftershave. I'd stand there, hugging his
clothes, making believe, close my eyes, and cry.
--anon. in Avery N. Gilbert & Charles J. Wysocki
"The Smell Results" _National Geographic_ [October 1987].


The smell of kerosene brings back for me the memories
of reading by a kerosene light, the feeling of closeness
and safety and the shadows cast on the walls, the
laughter of a grandmother dead almost thirty years.
--anon. in Avery N. Gilbert & Charles J. Wysocki
"The Smell Results" _National Geographic_ [October 1987].

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ambrosial [am-BROH-zhuhl], adjective:
1. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
2. Worthy of the gods; divine.

cacodylic (adj.) [kζ-kκ-'di-lik]
1. Belonging to the arsenic group of poisons.
2: Foul-smelling.

fetid [FET-id; FEE-tid], adjective:
Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Synonyms: malodor, reek, stench.

malodorous [mal-OH-duhr-uhs], adjective:
Having a bad odor.

mephitic [muh-FIT-ik], adjective:
1. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
2. Poisonous; noxious.

odoriferous (adj.) [o-dκ-'ri-fκr-κs]
Having or emitting an odor or bad smell.
This word bears a pejorative connotation; the neutral term is "odorous."

olfactory [ol-FAK-tuh-ree; -tree; ohl-], adjective:
Of smell; having to do with smelling.

redolent [RED-uh-luhnt], adjective:
1. Having or exuding fragrance; scented; aromatic.
2. Full of fragrance; odorous; smelling (usually used
with 'of' or 'with').
3. Serving to bring to mind; evocative; suggestive;
reminiscent (usually used with 'of' or 'with').

sachet [sa-SHEY], noun:
1. A small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder
or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, etc., to impart
a pleasant scent.
2. Also, sachet powder, the powder contained in such a case.




SMILES

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see: "FACE"
see: "HUMOR"
see: "JOKES"
see: "LAUGHTER"
see: "HAPPINESS" for other related links


Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying,
It never was worthwhile. So:
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
--George Asaf [George H. Powell] (1880—1951)
British songwriter,
"Pack up your Troubles" [1915 song] (Music by Felix Powell.)

I quickly laugh at everything,
for fear of having to cry.
--Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732—1799)
French playwright and adventurer.
_Le Barbier de Seville_ [1775]

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
--attributed to Victor Borge [Berge Rosenbaum] (1909—2000)
Danish-born American humorist, entertainer, and pianist.

[Of autumn:]
The year's last, loveliest smile.
--John H. Bryant (1807—?)
American poet; brother of William Cullen Bryant.
"The Indian Summer"

Smile! You're on Candid Camera!
--Television catchphrase
"Candid Camera" [US TV show 1948-2004]

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably
selling something that doesn't work.
--George Carlin (1937—2008)
American stand-up comedian and author.
_Brain Droppings_ [1997]

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_Farewell, My Lovely_, ch. 18 [1940]

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Hey, hobo man
Hey, Dapper Dan
You've both got your style
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Your clothes may be
Beau Brummelly
They stand out a mile —
But Brother,
You're never fully dressed
Without a smile!

Who cares what they're wearing
On Main Street,
Or Saville Row,
It's what you wear from ear to ear
And not from head to toe
(That matters)

--Martin Charnin (b. 1934)
American lyricist, writer, and composer.
"You're Never Fully Dressed Without a
Smile" in the musical _Annie_ [1977].

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the
little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look,
a heartfelt compliment, and the countless other infinitessimals
of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
_The Friend_ [1828]

We should tackle reality in a slightly joky
way, otherwise we miss the point.
--Lawrence Durrell (1912—1990)
British novelist and poet.
_Tunc_ [1968]

No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth —
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
--Anthony Euwer (1877—1955)
American author.
_The Limeratomy: A Compendium of Universal Knowledge_ [1917], "The Smile"

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
--attributed to W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield] (1880—1946)
American vaudeville star and film actor.

[When asked if he had ever seen Coach Tom Landry smile:]
No, but I was only there nine years.
--Walt Garrison (b. 1944)
American football player.
Quoted in Jaime Aron _Dallas Cowboys: The
Complete Illustrated History_ [2010].
(Tom Landry (1924—2000), Coach of Dallas Cowboys [1960-88].)

When Grandmama fell off the boat,
And couldn't swim (and wouldn't float),
Matilda just stood by and smiled.
I almost could have slapped the child.
--Harry Graham [pseud. Col. D. Streamer] (1874—1936)
English writer and journalist.
_Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899]

A woman has two smiles that an angel might
envy — the smile that accepts the lover afore
words are uttered, and the smile that lights
on the first-born baby, and assures him of a
mother's love.
--Thomas C. Haliburton (1796—1865)
Canadian politician, judge, and writer who was best known
as the creator of the literary character, Sam Slick.
_Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances_ [2 vol., 1853]

A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It
enriches those who receive, without making
poorer those who give. It takes but a moment,
but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
None is so rich or mighty that he can get along
without it, and none is so poor but that he can
be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness
in the home, fosters good will in business, and
is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest
to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine
to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble.
Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or
stolen, for it is something that is of no value to
anyone until it is given away. Some people are
too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of
yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who
has no more to give.
--Based on the writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808—1888)
Religious philosopher.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape
bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 238 [1882].

Here's to a fellow who smiles,
When life runs along like a song,
And here's to a lad who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
--Irish toast

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Entry of 5 October 1769, in James Boswell
_The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment
of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin, he deceives
himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp
learns to whistle.
--Nikita Khrushchev (1894—1971)
Soviet statesman, Premier [1958—1964].
(On the likelihood of the Soviet Union rejecting communism,
speech in Moscow [17 September 1955].)

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
--Ring Lardner [Ringgold Wilmer Lardner] (1885—1933)
American writer and satirist.
Quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow _New Speaker's
Treasury of Wit and Wisdom_, p. 261 [1958].

A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.
--Herman Melville (1819—1891)
American novelist and poet.
_Pierre_, bk. IV [1852]

I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."
--Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
American writer of humorous poetry.
"The Purist"

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
--Charles Reade (1814—1884)
English novelist and playwright.
_White Lies_ [1860]

O Villain, villain, smiling damned villain! [...]
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Hamlet_, I, v, 106 [1600-01]

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
_Following the Equator_ [1897], ch. LII "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything does dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
But the smile that is worth the praise of earth
Is the smile that comes through tears.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
"Worth While"

When you call me that, smile!
--Owen Wister (1860—1938)
American writer of western novels.
_The Virginian_, ch. 2 [1902]

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Archimedes, the early truth-seeker,
Leapt out of his bath, cried "Eureka!"
And ran half a mile,
Wearing only a smile,
Thus becoming the very first streaker.
--anon.

Let others cheer the winning man,
There's one I hold worth while;
'Tis he who does the best he can,
Then loses with a smile.
Beaten he is, but not to stay
Down with the rank and file;
That man will win some other day,
Who loses with a smile.
--anon.

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effulgence (noun)
Brightness or a brilliant light radiating from something.

refulgent (adj.)
Shining brightly; radiant; brilliant; resplendent.


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