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. . . TALK see: "ACTIONS" see: "CONVERSATION" see: "SPEECH" see: "COMMUNICATION" for other related links We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. --Abigail Adams (1744—1818) American first lady [1797—1801], the wife of John Adams, second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. Letter to John Adams [16 October 1774]. It has been said in praise of some men, that they could talk whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex, that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation upon the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup. --Joseph Addison (1672—1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [13 December 1711] Let's meet and either do or die. --Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher English Jacobean playwrights who collaborated on comedies and tragedies between 1606 and 1614. _The Island Princess_, act II, sc. 2 - By their fruits ye shall know them. --Bible New Testament, "Matthew" 7:20 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? --Bible "James" 2:15-16 - Oaths are but words, and words but wind. --Samuel Butler (1612—1680) English poet and satirist. "Hudibras" [1663], pt. II [1664], canto II, l. 117 As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie (1835—1919) American businessman and philanthropist of Scottish birth. In Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, & Andrew Frothingham _And I Quote: The Definitive Collection..._, p. 6 [1992]. 'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax — Of cabbages — and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898) English writer and logician. _Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. 4 [1872] Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773) British writer and politician. In Tiruvalluvar _Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar_, p. 437 [1962]. After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. --Chinese Proverb To jaw-jaw is better than to war-war. --Winston Churchill (1874—1965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955]. Remarks at White House, Washington [26 June 1954]. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXII [1820] Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse. --William Cowper (1731—1800) English poet and hymnodist. _Conversation_ [1782] If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. --Moshe Dayan (1915—1981) Israeli military leader and politician. Quoted in Barbara Rowes _The Book of Quotes_ [1979]. Far too numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much. --John Dryden (1631—1700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681] - A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears where he stands in life and thought. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. "Worship" _The Conduct of Life_ [1860] Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882) American philosopher and poet. "Social Aims" _Letters and Social Aims_ [1876] - Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. --attributed to Euripides (485?—406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. When the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening ... there will still be one more sound: that of his [man's] puny, inexhaustible voice, still talking. --William Faulkner (1897—1962) American novelist. [1950 Nobel acceptance speech.] Well done is better than well said. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1737] Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. --attributed to Robert Frost (1874—1963) American poet. Every Ass loves to hear himself bray. --Thomas Fuller (1654—1734) English writer and physician. Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_ [1732] You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. In _The New Dictionary of Thoughts_ (C. N. Catrevas ed.). p. 187 [1960]. - Talking is one of the fine arts—the noblest, the most important, the most difficult—and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858] When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman; for, talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in woman? --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894) American physician, poet, and essayist. _The Poet at the Breakfast-Table_ [1872] - When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. --Saint Jerome (c.340—420?) Translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent. --Jean de La Bruyère (1645—1696) French essayist and moralist. In Connie Robertson _The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 61 [1998]. There are braying men in the world as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking other than a way of braying? --Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616—1704) English journalist and pamphleteer. Attributed in _The New Era_, vol. III [1873]. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. --James Russell Lowell (1819—1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. I think men talk to women so that they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so that they can talk to them. --Jay McInerney (b. 1955) American writer. "Brightness Falls" [1992] Actions speak louder than words. --_Melancholy State of Province_ [1736] Quoted in A. M. Davis _Colonial Currency_, III. 137 [1911] He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. --Jean Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622—1673) French comic dramatist. _Le Misanthrope_ [1666], act II, sc. v - Saying is one thing and doing is another. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. _Essays_ [1580] bk. II, ch. 31 If a man's talk is commonplace and his writing distinguished, it means that his talent lies in the place from which he borrows and not in himself. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. _Essays_ [1580], bk. 3, ch. 2 When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592) French moralist and essayist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_ [10th ed. 1884]. & see: Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. --Joseph Roux (1834—1886) French parish priest and writer. _Meditations of a Parish Priest_, # 22 "Joy" [1886]. - The less men think, the more they talk. --Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689—1755) French philosopher, jurist, and satirist. Quoted in Hugh Moore _A Dictionary of Quotations from Various Authors in Ancient and Modern Languages_, p. 198 [1831]. It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it. . . . Light-houses don't ring bells and fire cannon to call attention to their shining — they just shine. --Dwight Lyman Moody (1837—1899) American evangelist and publisher. Quoted in S. P. Linn _Golden Gleams of Thought_, p. 140 [1906, 9th ed.]. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of your- self. --Blaise Pascal (1623—1662) French mathematician, physicist, and moralist. _Pensées_ [1670], no. 4 [Contrasting EDS and the company which acquired it, GM:] The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year. --Ross Perot (1930— ) American businessman, philanthropist, and independent candidate for U.S. president in 1992 and 1996. Quoted in "Business Week" [6 October 1986]. - As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers. --Plato (427?—347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in _Mental Recreation Or, Select Maxims_, p. 286 [Longman & Rees, London, 1831]. Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they would like to say something. --Plato (427?—347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 560 [1891]. - And 'tis remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. --Matthew Prior (1664—1721) English poet. _Alma_, canto 2, l. 345 People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778) French philosopher and novelist. _Emile; or, Treatise on Education_ [1762] Talkers are no good doers. --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _King Richard III_, I, iii [1592—1593] Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love, thrive on silences. --Fulton John Sheen (1895—1979) Roman Catholic bishop; the first popular preacher to appear on television. _Three to Get Married_ [1951] Never say more than is necessary. --Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist. _The Rivals_ [1775], act II, sc. 1 - The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_ [10th ed. 1884]. - - Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Attributed, perhaps apocryphal. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Letter to Henry W. Ruoff [28 August 1908]. - If a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. --Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924) American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921]. In a speech in Paris, France [10 May 1919]. - When all is said and done, much is said and little is done. --anon. ----- affable [AF-uh-buhl], adjective: 1. Easy to speak to; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner. 2. Gracious; benign. badinage (noun) Light, playful talk; banter. blether (Verb) ['ble-dhêr] To jabber blether (nonsense); to blabber nonsensically. confabulate (verb) [kên-‘fæb-yu-leyt] To chat, converse; (psychology) to fill lapses of memory with fabrications that one believes are facts. garrulous (adj.) ['gæ-rê-lês] Given to overwhelming amounts of annoying chatter. gesticulate [juh-STIK-yuh-layt], intransitive verb: 1. To make gestures or motions, especially while speaking or instead of speaking. 2. To indicate or express by gestures. kibitz (verb) ['ki-bits] To look on without participating; to offer meddlesome advice to others; to talk idly or annoyingly. maunder [MON-dur], intransitive verb: 1. To talk incoherently; to speak in a rambling manner. 2. To wander aimlessly or confusedly. Two drunken couples... maunder in an all-too-familiar vein about love. --Anatole Broyard, "New York Times" [15 April 1981] persiflage [PUR-suh-flahzh], noun: Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. sesquipedalian [ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn], adj.: 1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words. 2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables. stentorian (adj.) [sten-'to-ri-ên] Extremely loud or having an extremely loud voice. susurrous (adj.) [sê-'su-rês] Pertaining to a susurrus (whispering sound), having or similar to whispering or rustling sounds. voluble (adj.) Talking a great deal.  . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links It has been said in praise of some men, that they could talk whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex, that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation upon the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup. --Joseph Addison (1672—1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist. "The Spectator" [13 December 1711] To think all you say, is but candor; To say all you think, would be slander. --William Allingham (1824—1899) Irish man of letters and poet. _Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes_ [1884] He that questioneth much shall learn much and content much; but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the persons whom he asketh; for he shall give them occasion to please themselves in speaking, and himself shall continually gather knowledge; but let his questions not be troublesome, for that is fit for a poser; and let him be sure to leave other men their turn to speak; nay, if there be any that would reign and take up all the time, let them find means to take them off, and bring others on, as musicians used to do with those that dance too long. If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not. --Francis Bacon (1561—1626) English philosopher and essayist. Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless. --Honoré de Balzac (1799—1850) French journalist and writer. _Le Père Goriot_ [1835], tr. Marion Ayton Crawford Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885) American humorist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 49 [1886]. There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. --Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904) American writer. _Intuitions and Summaries of Thought_ [2 vols. 1862] Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much and know little; to spend much and have little; to presume much and be worth little. --Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616) Spanish novelist. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 258 [15th ed. 1894]. When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion, and our own improvement; for what we have to say, we know, but what they have to say, we know not. --C.C. Colton (1780—1832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCXXXVI [1828 ed.] To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed. --attributed to Democritus of Abdera (c. 460 B.C.—c. 370 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Far too numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much. --John Dryden (1631—1700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681] Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. --Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Quotations_ [1775] My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. --John Gay (1685—1732) English poet and dramatist. _Fables_, pt. 1 [1727] Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative. --Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Traveller: Or, A Prospect of Society [1764]. Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug. --Joel Chandler Harris (1848—1908) American writer. _Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation_ [1881] "Plantation Proverbs" I abhor, loathe and despise these long discourses, and agree with Carducci the Italian poet who died some years ago that a man who takes half a page to say what can be said in a sentence will be damned. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. Letter to Frederick Pollock [1 June 1917]. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_ I, 18, 69 You are always complaining of melancholy, and I conclude from those complaints that you are fond of it. No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. .... Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself, never to mention your own mental diseases; if you are never to speak of them you will think of them but little, and if you think little of them, they will molest you rarely. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Letter to James Boswell [8 April 1780]. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. --François de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. --Don Marquis (1878—1937) American poet and journalist. _archys life of mehitabel_ [1933] One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. --Cesare Pavese (1908—1950) Italian novelist, poet, and translator. _This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50_ [1961] As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers. --Plato (427?—347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. Attributed in _Mental Recreation Or, Select Maxims_, p. 286 [1831]. Be silent, or say something better than silence. --Pythagoras (582—486 B.C.) Ionian mathematician and philosopher. Attributed by William Makepeace Thayer in _Ethics of Success_ [1893]. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. --Francis Quarles (1592—1644) English poet. 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. - The saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.' --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. _King Henry V_ [1598-1599], Act 4, Scene 4, line 72 Fie! what a spendthrift he is of his tongue! --William Shakespeare (1564—1616) English dramatist. - - Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues. --Benedict de Spinoza (1632—1677) Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent of 17th century Rationalism. _Ethics_ [1677] pt. III It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other. --Benedict de Spinoza (1632—1677) Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent of 17th century Rationalism. _Ethics_ [1677] pt. III - Shallow brooks murmur most, deep silent slide away. --Sir Philip Sidney (1554—1586) English courtier, statesman, soldier, and poet There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _Following the Equator_ [1897] "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" The secret of being a bore. . . is to tell everything. --Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) (1694—1778) French writer and philosopher. _Discours en vers sur l'homme_ [1737] And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed --Oscar Wilde (1854—1900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. Of three things there is no end: the cawing of the raven, the braying of the ass, and the vanity of a man in love. --Bernardo, character in Frank Yerby, _The Golden Hawk_ [1948] -- Our Lips And Ears If you your lips would keep from slips. Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where. If you your ears would save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid: Myself and I, and mine and my, And how I do and did. --anon. ----- blatant (adj.) ['bleyt-ênt] Annoyingly loud, coarse, or out of harmony with others; shockingly expressive of matters that should not be revealed. blether (verb) ['ble-dhêr] To jabber blether (nonsense); to blabber nonsensically. effusive (adj.) 1. Expressing emotions at undue length or intensity. Syn.: gushing Similar: fervent, copious, unreserved, unrestrained, profuse 2. Flowing out or over. Syn.: overflowing, gushing Related: lyrical, wordy, talkative, chatty, verbose effusively: adv. effusiveness: noun garrulous (adj.) ['gæ-rê-lês] Given to overwhelming amounts of annoying chatter. logorrhea (noun) 1. Incoherent, excessive speech. logorrheic (adj.) loquacious (adj.) [lo-'kwey-shês] Excessively talkative, garrulous. macrology (noun) [mæ-'crah-lê-jee] Wordiness, prolixity, excessively redundant speech. Macrology refers to speech that is not merely excessive in length but also tedious and pointlessly redundant. popinjay [POP-in-jay], noun: A vain and talkative person. Ex.: A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. --Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) American novelist, _Death in the Afternoon_ prolix (adj.) ['pro-liks] Lengthy, too temporally long; (of speech or writing) verbose, long-winded, using too many words. prolixity [prê-'lik-sê-ti] (noun) prolixly [pro-'liks-li]. (adverb) verbiage [VUR-bee-ij], noun: 1. An overabundance of words; wordiness. 2. Manner or style of expression; diction. verbose [vuhr-BOHS], adjective: Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by an excess of words; wordy; as, "a verbose speaker; a verbose argument." . . see: "COMMUNICATION" for related links I had just dozed off into a stupor when I heard what I thought was myself talking to myself. I didn't pay much attention to it, as I knew practically everything I would have to say to myself, and wasn't particularly interested. --Robert Benchley (1889—1945) American humorist and newspaper columnist. "Chips off the Old Benchley" ;void(0)) TARZAN . . see: "ACTORS" for related links - Nor did we care when Edgar Rice Burrough's thoroughly British hero grunted the banalities of dialogue in his American accent. We believed in Weissmuller — and only in Weismuller. --Phillip Adams, in article "Me Tarzan, you feign" (The Australian Weekend Review [15 June 2002] We used to watch Tarzan movies in our villages — a travelling showman would stretch a bedsheet between a couple of trees and set up a portable projector. And there I'd be cheering for the white man and booing the Africans. --a Marxist minister in Mugabe's Government, op. cit. - - Johnny Weissmuller was taking part in a celebrity golf tournament in Havana during the Cuban revolution. As he was on his way to the course with some friends, a group of Castro's rebel soldiers suddenly appeared and surrounded them. Weissmuller, keeping his cool, slowly raised himself to his full height, beat his chest with his fists and let out an enormous yell. After a moment of stunned silence, the revolutionaries broke into smiles of delight and began calling out, "Tarzan! Tarzan! Bienvenido!" Dropping their weapons, they crowded around the star, shaking his hand. The celebrity and his party were not only not kidnapped, but were given a rebel escort to the golf course. --David Wallechinsky _The Complete Book of the Olympics_ - - When I was sixteen, my father took me on a fishing trip to Acapulco, Mexico. While we were being photographed with our catch — two large sailfish — a little Mexican boy no older than nine, who had been staring at us for some time, inquisitively pulled on my father's pant leg. Dad glanced down at the barefoot boy — with two front teeth missing — beaming up at him. "Perdon senor, usted es Tarzan?" Dad cocked an eyebrow. "Si, me Tarzan." This was followed by the famous Tarzan yell, at full throttle. Within minutes the entire village, now suddenly awake from their afternoon siesta, gathered on the pier, gawking and pointing. For a teenager, this was thoroughly embarrassing, but it made such an impression on me that I never forgot it. --Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. (1940—2006) American author. _Tarzan, My Father_ [2002], "Preface" - Tarzan : "Tarzan, Jane, hurt me, boy, love it, Jane" Jane: "Darling, that's quite a sentence," --dialogue , "Tarzan the Ape Man", [1932 Screenplay], Cyril Hume and Ivor Novello . . see: "WORK" for related links Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC) Roman poet. Lib. i. Ep. ii. 39 (Cowley trans.) Quoted in _Rambler_, no. 108 [30 March 1751]. So little done, so much to do. --Cecil Rhodes (1853—1902) South African statesman. (Said on the day of his death.) ----- Sisyphean (adj.) [si-sê-'fee-ên] Endlessly laborious and futile; also, related to Sisyphus, as "the Sisyphean story" . . see: "APPRECIATION" see: "EDUCATION" see: "GROWING" see: "LIKES AND DISLIKES" see: "REFINED" see: "STYLE" see: "TACT" Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste. --Arnold Bennett (1867—1931) English novelist. Quoted in "Observer" London [24 August 1930]. A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880) English novelist. _Daniel Deronda_ [1876] Exuberance is better than taste. --Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880) French novelist. _Sentimental Education_ (L'Éducation sentimentale) [1869] All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste. --Joseph Joubert (1754—1824) French philosopher. _Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert_ ("Collected Thoughts of Mr. Joubert") [1838] No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. Quoted in Harold Adams Innis _Changing Concepts of Time_ [1952]. There is no accounting for tastes. --Ann Radcliffe _The Mysteries of Udolpho_ [1794] Taste ... is the *only* morality. ... Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are. --John Ruskin (1819—1900) English art and social critic. _The Crown of Wild Olive_, lecture 2 [1866] You had no taste when you married me. --Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751—1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist. _The School for Scandal_ [1777], act I, sc. 1 I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, 'I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.' --Thornton Wilder (1897—1975) American novelist and dramatist. Quoted in Richard H. Goldstone _Thornton Wilder, An Intimate Portrait_ [1975]. ----- ageusia (noun) [ê-'gu-see-yê] Loss of the sense of taste, gustatory anesthesia. The loss of the ability to distinguish sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. ambrosial [am-BROH-zhuhl], adjective: 1. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant. 2. Worthy of the gods; divine. brackish [BRAK-ish], adjective: 1. Somewhat salty. 2. Distasteful; unpalatable. decorum (noun) Dignity: dignity or good taste that is appropriate to a specific occasion epicure (noun) ['e-pi-kyur] A person with discriminating tastes, especially in food or wine. adj. epicurean gaudy (adj.) ['ga-dee or 'gaw-dee] Extravagantly showy, dazzling, possibly tastelessly so. gimcrack [JIM-krak], noun: A showy but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw. adjective: Tastelessly showy; cheap; gaudy. Ex.: In those cities most self-conscious about their claim to be part of English history, like Oxford or Bath, the shops where you could have bought a dozen nails, home-made cakes or had a suit run up, have shut down and been replaced with places selling teddy bears, T-shirts and gimcrack souvenirs. --Jeremy Paxman, _The English: A Portrait of a People_ gustatory [GUS-tuh-tor-ee], adjective: Of or pertaining to the sense of taste. Ex.: In a land of ice and chains and endemic suffering, caviar provided gustatory salvation from grief and black days, a sensual escape from temporal woes. --Jeffrey Tayler, "The Caviar Thugs", _The Atlantic_ [June 2001] kitsch [KICH], noun: 1. Art characterized by pretentious bad taste. 2. Relating to, or characterized by, kitsch. louche [LOOSH], adjective: Of questionable taste or morality; disreputable or indecent; dubious; shady. raffish (adj.) ['ræ-fish] 1. Vulgar in taste, appearance, dissolute in behavior; rakish. 2. Dashing, carefree or unconventionally fun-loving; rakish. Sometimes we would go to the Gargoyle Club,... but it was too full of raffish upper-class drunks for my taste. --John Richardson, _The Sorcerer's Apprentice_ sapid [SAP-id], adjective: 1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor. 2. Agreeable to the mind; to one's liking. tart (noun, adjective) [tah(r)t] (Noun 1) A small pie with a shallow shell, no covering, and various fillings, usually of fruit; (Noun 2) a wanton or loose girl, a woman who wears cheap, gaudy clothes; (Adjective) pungently sour, sharp to the taste. ;void(0)) TATTOOS . . see: "THE BODY" see: "STUPIDITY" Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. --Jon Anderson, "Epidermal Dalis," "Chicago Tribune," [6 October 1994] ;void(0)) TAYLOR (ELIZABETH) . . see: "ACTORS" for related links see: "PEOPLE" for related links Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. --Don Rickles (1926— ) American actor and stand-up comedian. 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