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. . . see: "PEOPLE" for related links see: "POLITICS" for related links Q: If Mrs Thatcher was run over by a bus. . . ? A: It wouldn't dare. --Lord Carrington (1919 ) British Conservative politician. In Russell Lewis _Margaret THatcher_ [1984]. She is so clearly the best man among them. --Barbara Castle (19102002) British Labour politician. Diary [11 February 1975]. A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlor, sharpening her claws on the velvet. --Matthew Parris (1949 ) British journalist and politician. _Look Behing You!_ [1993] The iron lady. (In Soviet defense ministry newspaper "Red Star", which accused her of trying to revive the cold war.) --anon., in "Sunday Times" [25 January 1976].  ;void(0)) THEATER . . see: "APPLAUSE" see: "CRITICS" see: "SHAKESPEARE", "SHAW (G.B.)" see: "WILDE (OSCAR)" see: "ACTORS" for other related links see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for other related links ^ Sir George Alexander (18581919), British actor. On the first night of that unfortunate play [Henry James's] _Guy Domville_, produced by George Alexander, it was soon evident from attitude of the gallery that the play was not going to be a success, but the seal of failure was set on it when Sir George uttered the line, "I am the last of the Domvilles." Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than a voice came from the gallery, "Well at any rate, that's a comfort to know." --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ When Mr. Wilbur calls his play 'Halfway to Hell' he underestimates the distance. --Brooks Atkinson (18941984) American journalist and critic. (The play opened at the Fulton Theatre in New York City on 2 January 1934 and closed after seven performances.) There is less in this than meets the eye. --Tallulah Bankhead (19031968) American actress. Commenting on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck [3 January 1922]. ^ Sir James Matthew Barrie (18601937), British journalist and playright known especially for _Peter Pan_. One of the reactions to _Peter Pan_ that Barrie most enjoyed was that of a small boy who had been given a seat in the author's box to watch the play. At the end he was asked which bit he had liked best. The child replied, 'What I think I liked best was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on the people's heads.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I go to the theater to be entertained, I want to be taken out of myself, I don't want to see lust and rape and incest and sodomy and so on, I can get all that at home. --Alan Bennett (1934 ) English actor and playwright. Alan Bennett et al, _Beyond the Fringe_ [1963] "Man of Principles" There's no business like show business. --Irving Berlin (18881989) American songwriter. [Title of 1946 song.] ^^ One night when we were appearing in Boston, Richard Rodgers took me to dinner in a Chinese restaurant. Muzak was playing, and every three minutes or so, one of his tunes came on, and each time he got up and took a bow. But he was not lighthearted about the show (The Sound of Music). It was eleven days before opening night, and both he and Hammerstein felt something was still lacking. "We have this young leading man, and we have to write something for him that will utilize what he can do," they said. They retired to a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Boston, where they proceeded to write me a song (Edelweiss) that I would sing eight times a week for the next two years thereafter. [ . . . ] The song has great meaning for me, [ . . . ] because it is the last song that Oscar Hammerstein wrote. He was sick at the time, and I find it meaningful that the last word he wrote creatively was "forever." --Theodore Bikel (1924 ) Austrian-born actor and musician. In Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer _It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way_ [1998]. ^^ We should have a secret meeting in the cellar of the St. James Theatre, raise $25 million, put on a million- dollar failure and split it up. --Mel Brooks (1926 ) American actor, writer, and director. On the success of his hit musical _The Producers_. Give My Regards to Broadway. --George M. Cohan (18781942) American songwriter, dramatist, and producer. [Title of 1904 song.] I will not say that "Portofino" is the worst musical *ever* produced, because I've only been seeing musicals since 1919. --Walter Kerr (1913-1996) American theater critic [husband of Jean Kerr]. Closing sentence of his review, in "New York Herald Tribune" 1956, quoted in Frank Rich, _The Drama Critic Who Made the Pulse Race_, "New York Times" [20 October 1996]. ^ A.E. Matthews (18691960) British actor. Toward the end of his career Matthews was acting in a West End play. One scene involved a crucial telephone call, which Matthews was to answer. The telephone rang on cue; he crossed the stage, picked up the receiver, and promptly dried up. In desperation, he turned to the only other actor on the stage and said, 'It's for you.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Miss Hepburn runs the whole gamut of emotions from A to B. --Dorothy Parker (18931967) American critic and humorist. Referring to Katharine Hepburn's performance in the 1933 play "The Lake." Quoted in Max Herzberg _A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits_ [1941]. 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 'Twelfth Night," acted well, though it be but a silly play. --Samuel Pepys (16331703) English diarist and naval administrator. _Diary_ [29 September 1662] It's smooth! It's smart! It's Rogers! It's Hart! --Cole Porter (18921964) American songwriter. ^^ Sir Michael Redgrave (19081985) British stage actor. During one play his scene called for him to be left onstage with one attendant as he prepared to commit suicide. His line was to be "Bring me a pint of port and a pistol." With the audience in a high state of tension, Redgrave called, "Bring me a pint of piss and a portal." Trying to help the situation, the young actor who played the attendant asked, "A pint of *piss,* my lord? "Aye," responded a furious Redgrave, "*and* a portal." _Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_, edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^^ - It is greatly to Mrs. Patrick Campbell's credit that, bad as the play was, her acting was worse. It was a masterpiece of failure. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. Review of "Fedora" [25 May 1895]. I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas in these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous, and demoralising subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish dramatist and critic. In a review of the play "The Babes in the Wood" [27 December 1897]. 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]. G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: "Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, 'Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when she says 'No,' he will say, 'Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy." - The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. --John Ernst Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. "Once There Was a War" [1958] It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. When asked his opinion of a play. Quoted in P. G. Wodehouse "Performing Flea" [25 September 1950]. Just know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. --Spencer Tracy (19001967) American actor who won two Academy Awards for best actor. (On the two things an actor needs to know.) [Of his play, "Blow Your Own Trumpet":] The second play was well and truly lacerated by the press not by the public. They weren't there. --Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov [19212004] British entertainer, writer, and humanitarian. Quoted in Geoffrey Willans _Peter Ustinov_ [1957]. - When the English Playwright Oscar Wilde arrived at his club late at night after witnessing the first presentation of a play that had been a complete failure, someone asked. "How did your play go tonight, Oscar? "Oh," said Wilde, "the play was a great success. The audience was a failure." - ----- leitmotif [LYT-moh-teef], noun: 1. In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play; a sort of musical label. 2. A dominant and recurring theme. ;void(0)) THIEVES . . see: "STEALING" see: "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for other related links see: "DECEPTION" for other related links We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. --attributed to Ζsop (c. 620 B.C.c. 560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) I've labored long and hard for bread For honor and for riches But on my corns too long you've tred, You fine-haired sons of bitches. --Charles E. Bolton [Charles Earl Bolles, aka Black Bart] (18291917?) American outlaw. In a note he left after robbing a Wells Fargo stagecoach; first three lines quoted in Marshall Cushing _The Story of our Post Office_ [1893]. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. _The Man Who Was Thursday_, ch. 4 [1908] A man that will make such an execrable pun as that . . . will pick my pocket. --John Dennis (16571734) English critic and poet. Quoted in Benjamin Victor _An Epistle to Sir Richard Steele_ [1722, 2nd ed.]. Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. In James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 324 [1899]. As through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. --Woody Guthrie (19121967) American folksinger and songwriter. "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" [1939 song] Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief. --George Herbert (15931633) English religious poet. _Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640] A thief believes everybody steals. --Edgar Watson Howe (18541937) American journalist and author. _Country Town Sayings_ [1911] Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Othello_ [16041605], act 3, sc. 3, l. 160 - (published in the "Hartford Courant", 1875) TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLAR REWARD At the great baseball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, and forgot to bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of that umbrella in good condition to my house on Farmington avenue. I do not want the boy (in an active state) but will pay two hundred dollars for his remains. Samuel L. Clemens. --In _Mark Twain's Helpful Hints For Good Living: A Handbook For The Damned Human Race_, Edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank. ^ H.G. Wells (18661946) British novelist. On leaving a Cambridge party, Wells accidentally picked up a hat that did not belong to him. Discovering his mistake, he decided not to return the hat to its rightful owner, whose label was inside the brim. The hat fit Wells comfortably; furthermore, he had grown to like it. So he wrote to the erstwhile owner: 'I stole your hat; I like your hat; I shall keep your hat. Whenever I look inside it I shall think of you and your excellent sherry and of the town of Cambridge. I take off your hat to you.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ Procrastination is the thief of time. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts" [17421745], l. 393 - 'Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common; But surely he's without excuse Who steals a common from the goose. --anon. In Rev. John Booth _Epigrams, Ancient and Modern ..._, p. 99 [1863]. - A farmer in the country has a watermelon patch and upon inspection he discovers that some of the local kids have been helping themselves to a feast. The farmer thinks of ways to discourage this profit eating situation. So he puts up a sign that reads, "WARNING: ONE OF THESE WATERMELONS CONTAINS CYANIDE!" The farmer returns a week later to discover that none of the watermelons have been eaten, but finds another sign that reads: "NOW THERE ARE TWO!" - ----- snowdropper (noun) ['sno-drah-pκ(r)] Someone who steals clothes from a clothesline. Apparently, drying clothes on a clothesline requires a security guard Down Under for today's word is an Australian contribution to English. ;void(0)) THINKING / THOUGHTS . . see: "FREEDOM OF THOUGHT" see: "THE MIND" If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out. --Pamela Anderson (1967 ) Canadian-born actress. _Movieline_ [November 2002] It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --attributed to Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be secured because they seldom return. --attributed to Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. --Robert Browning (18121889) English poet. "A Death in the Desert" [1864] I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. --John Burroughs (18371921) American naturalist and writer. _The Summit of the Years_ [1913] "Preface" Try to get angry without having angry thoughts. Try to feel stressed without having stressful thoughts, or sad without sad thoughts, or jealous without jealous thoughts. You can't - it's impossible. When you feel these emotions, remind yourself that it is your thinking that is negative, not your life. This simple awareness is the first step in putting you back onto the path of happiness. --Richard Carlson Hast thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: the end of Man is an Action and not a Thought, though it were of the noblest. --Thomas Carlyle (17951881) Scottish historian and political philosopher. _Sartor Resartus_, bk. II, ch. vi [18331834] The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. --attributed to Coco Chanel (18831971) French fashion designer. Perish the thought! --Colley Cibber (16711757) English actor and playwright. "Richard III", act 5, sc. 5 [as rewritten in 1700] There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 BC) Roman orator and statesman. If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. _Lacon_ [1825], Volume 1, No. 546 ^ Calvin Coolidge (18721933), 30th President of the United States [19231929], President Coolidge had a group of guests on the presidential yacht cruising the Potomac. As he stood alone at the rail, looking out at the expanse of water, someone exclaimed, 'Look at that slight and slender figure! Look at that head, bowed over the rail! What thoughts are in the mind of this man, burdened by the problems of the nation?' Finally, Coolidge turned around, and joined the others, saying, 'See that sea gull over there? Been watching it for twenty minutes. Hasn't moved. I think he's dead!' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ All the time he's boxing he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. --Jack Dempsey (18951983) American boxer. Referring to his fight with Benny Leonard. - In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. --Renι Descartes (15961650) French philosopher and mathematician. Attributed in Claude-Adrien Helvιtius _De l'esprit; or, Essays on the Mind_ [1807 ed.]. Je pense, donc je suis. I think, therefore I am. --Renι Descartes (15961650) French philosopher and mathematician. (Usually quoted as 'Cogito, ergo sum' from the 1641 Latin edition.) _Discourse on Method and the Meditations_ [1637] & see: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore, I think that I am. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911] & see: Cogito sum, ergo sum cogito. I think I am. Therefore, I am . . . I think. --attributed to George Carlin (19372008) American stand-up comedian and author. & see: I don't think, so, therefore I'm probably not. --attributed to Alan Smithee & see: Cogito eggo sum. (I think, therefore I am a waffle.) --anon. & finally: I am, because my little dog knows me. --Gertrude Stein (18741946) American writer. "Identity" - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. --The Dhammapada c. B.C. 300 One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. --Diogenes (404323 B.C.) Greek Cynic philosopher. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Coningsby_, bk. 3, ch. I [1844] - Far too numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and talk too much. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. _Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681] Words are but pictures of our thoughts. --John Dryden (16311700) English poet, critic, and dramatist. Attributed in J. E. Carpenter _Handbook of Poetry ..._, p. 196 [London, 1868]. - Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. --attributed to Tryon Edwards (18091894) American theologian. Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --attributed to Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist. - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.... let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not, and see it not. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_ "Self-Reliance" [1841] Our best thoughts come from others. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Quoted in James Wood (ed.) _Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources_, p. 337 [1899]. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The American Scholar_ [1837] Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 572 [1908 ed.]. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Letters and Social Aims_ [1876] "Progress and Culture," [18 July 1876] Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds may lie between you and its return! --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Journals_ (entry of 1871) [pub. in 10 vols., 19101914] - Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you're right. --attributed to Henry Ford (18631947) American car manufacturer. How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? --E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (18791970) English novelist. _Aspects of the Novel_ [1927] It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. --John Kenneth Galbraith (19082006) American economist. _The Affluent Society_ [1958] A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (18691948) Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic movement against British rule. _Ethical Religion_, p.60 [1930] I always voted at my party's call. And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. --W. S. Gilbert (18361911) English writer of comic and satirical verse. _H.M.S. Pinafore_, act I [1878] - All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think of them again. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Proverbs in Prose_ [1819] Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. Attributed in Adam Woolιver (comp.) _Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor_, p. 273 [1891]. - Those who think must govern those that toil. --Oliver Goldsmith (17281774) Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist. _The Traveller_ [1764] There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for themselves. --Meg Greenfield (19301999) American journalist and editor of the editorial page of the "Washington Post." In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best. --Robert Hall (17641831) English minister and orator. - A penny for your thought. --John Heywood (14971580) English playwright. _Proverbs_, pt. II, ch. iv [1546] & note: Ilsa: A franc for your thoughts. Rick: In America they bring only a penny. I guess that's about all they're worth. Ilsa: I'm willing to be overcharged. --(Dialogue between Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in the movie "Casablanca" [1943]. Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch.) - What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. Quoted in Julia B. Hoitt _Excellent Quotations For Home and School_, p. iv [1890]. - A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. --attributed to William James (18421910) American philosopher. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. --William James (18421910) American philosopher. In Paul W. Brand _The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt & What We Can Do_, p. 234 [1997]. - - Language is the dress of thought. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. "Cowley," _Lives of English Poets_ [1781] That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. On a 'dull, tiresome' acquaintance, quoted by Rev. Dr. Maxwell [1770], in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. --John Keats (17951821) English poet. Letter to George Keats [September 1819]. It may be too that Grant at last realized his own strengths. He was not a thinker, like the unfortunate General McClellan, who thought so long and hard about a campaign that it never got anywhere, leading Lincoln to complain that McClellan had "a case of the slows," and exasperating the president until he finally asked if he could borrow the Army of the Potomac since McClellan wasn't using it. Grant, on the contrary, was a man of action, and movement was what stimulated him, not thought. He would try something, and if it failed he would try something else, but his instinct was always to keep moving forward against the enemy. --Michael Korda _Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero_ [2004] - An even more abandoned delight to be learned from our forefathers is taking walks. You will begin to recapture the natural rhythms of the body. The mere act of walking attunes us with the earth and the air. And it gives us an opportunity to think. Aristotle's disciples were called the Peripatetics, or Walkers, because they walked when they wanted to think they found that walking helped thinking. It does. Especially when you need to work out a problem. --Peter Kreeft - Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (19091966) Polish writer. _Unkempt Thoughts_ [1962] Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. Quoted in _Speakers Encyclopedia_, NY [1955]. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. --John Locke (16321704) English political and educational philosopher. _An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ [1690] Though old the thought and oft expressed Tis his at last who says it best. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "For An Autograph" st. 5 [1868] - The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, IV, 3 Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. - If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. --Don Marquis (18781937) American poet and journalist. "The Sun Dial", [column] in the _New York Sun_ Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. --A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (18821956) English writer for children. _House at Pooh Corner_ [1928] There is no man so good that if he submitted all his actions and thoughts to the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. _Essais_ (Essays) [94 chapters written 15711580 & published 1580; the last 13 chapters were written 15851587 & published 1588.] Bk. 3, ch. 9 [1580] No man is lonely while eating spaghetti it requires too much attention. --Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. Quoted in "Life" (mag.) [24 October 1969]. If you thirst to know who said, "I think, therefore I am," your thirst I will quench; It was Rene' Descartes, only what he actually said was, "Je pense, donc je suis," because he was French. He also said it in Latin, "Cogito, ergo sum," Just to show that he was a man of culture and not a tennis tramp or a cracker barrel philosophy bum. Descartes was one of the few who think, therefore they are, Because those who don't think, but are anyhow, outnumber them by far. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Lines Fraught With Naught But Thought" No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched. --attributed to George Jean Nathan (18821958) American drama critic and editor. It is often said that second thoughts are best; so they are in matters of judgment, but not in matters of conscience. --John Henry Newman (18011890) English theologian and leader of the Oxford movement, later Cardinal. "Obidience Without Love", Sermon II in _Parochial and Plain Sermons_, vol. IV [8 vol., 1875] - [Gustave Flaubert said] 'One can only think or write while sitting.' Here I have got you, you nihilist! A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Twilight of the Idols_, [1888], "Maxims and Missiles" The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. _The Dawn_ [1881] - There was a young student called Fred Who was questioned on Descartes and said: 'It's perfectly clear That I'm not really here, For I haven't a thought in my head.' --V. R. Ormerod If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. "Politics and the English Language" [April 1946] They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --Edgar Allan Poe (18091849) American poet and short-story writer. "Eleonora" [1841] To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. --Jules Henri Poincarι (18541912) French mathematician and philosopher of science. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (17231792) English painter. Quoted in _Bolster's Quarterly Magazine_ [July 1827]. - Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. - My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. --Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. Letter to his wife [1783]. The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we do not write it down. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "The Art of Literature: On Thinking For One's Self," _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1851] - Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Julius Caesar_, I, ii [1599] There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Hamlet_, II, ii [1601] - We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. --Isaac Bashevis Singer (19041991) Polish-American novelist who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. "New York Times Magazine" [26 November 1978] Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to-day as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. --Samuel Smiles (18121904) Scottish author. _Character_ [1871] To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _Crabbed Age and Youth_ [1878] Them's my sentiments. --William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863) English novelist. _Vanity Fair_, vol. I, ch. 21 [18471848] As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. --Donald Trump (1946 ) American business executive and entrepreneur. In Stephen Sutherland and Paul Sutherland _The Fast Track to Financial Independence_, p 387. One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both. --Horace Walpole (17171797) English writer and connoisseur. In a letter to Horace Mann [14 January 1772] Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said at all can be said clearly. But not everything that can be thought can be said. --Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951) Austrian philosopher. In Susan Sontag _Styles of Radical Will_, p. 18 "The Aesthetics of Silence" [2002]. - A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Soul of Man Under Socialism_ [1891 essay] And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. --attributed to Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. - - When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. --William Wrigley, Jr. (18611932) American industrialist. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [July 1940]. similarly: If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. --attributed to Darryl F. Zanuck (19021979) American producer, writer, actor and director who headed 20th Century Fox. 23 October 1949, "Sayings of the Week" _Observer_, as quoted in David Crystal & Hilary Crystal _Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages_ [2000]. - Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. --Edward Young (16831765) English poet. "Night Thoughts", Night ii. Line 466. - Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny. --anon. (variously attributed to George Dana Boardman, the younger, Charles Reade, and William Makepeace Thackeray.) & note: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. --Bible Galatians 6:7 - Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or kind deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. --unknown In _Bible Review_, p. 551 (ed. H.E. Butler) [1923]. ----- cachexy (noun) [kκ-'kek-si] 1/ Extremely bad state of health resulting from malnutrition, starvation; 2/ Sick or depraved way of thinking, mental malnourishment. cogitate [KOJ-uh-tayt], intransitive verb: To think deeply or intently; to ponder; to meditate. ideate (transitive verb) To form a thought or idea of; imagine. lucubration [loo-kyoo-BRAY-shun; loo-kuh-], noun: 1. The act of studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. 2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. ruminate [ROO-muh-nayt], intransitive verb: 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. 2. 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