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;void(0)) . . . VACATION see "TRAVEL" for related links - Let's take a boat to Bermuda Let's take a plane to Saint Paul Let's take a kayak To Quincy or Nyack, Let's get away from it all. Let's take a trip in a trailer No need to come back at all Let's take a powder To Boston for chowder, Let's get away from it all. We'll travel 'round from town to town, We'll visit ev'ry state. I'll repeat "I love you, Sweet!" In all the forty-eight. Let's go again to Niag'ra, This time we'll look at the Fall. Let's leave our hut, Dear, Get out of our rut, Dear, Let's get away from it all. --Tom Adair (19131988) American lyricist. "Let's Get Away From It All" [1940 song] (Music by Matt Dennis.) - The evolution of a tourist into a permanent resident consists of a struggle to harmonize misconceptions and preconceptions of Florida with reality. An initial diversion is to mail northward snapshots of himself reclining under a coconut palm or a beach umbrella, with the hope that they will be delivered in the midst of a blizzard. At the same time, the tourist checks weather reports from the North, and if his home community is having a mild winter he feels that his Florida trip has been in part a swindle. Nothing short of ten-foot snowdrifts and burst water- pipes at home can make his stay in the southland happy and complete. --Federal Writers' Project _Florida, A Guide to the Southernmost State_ [1939] I was going to stay on the three million miles of bent and narrow rural American two-lane, the roads to Podunk and Toonerville. Into the sticks, the boondocks, the burgs, backwaters, jerkwaters, wide-spots-in-the- road, the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it-towns. Into those places where you say, 'My God! What if you lived here!' --William Least Heat Moon [Bill Trogdon] (1939 ) American author. - This ain't the Waldorf; if it was you wouldn't be here. --Notice found in U.S. country hotels [c. 1900]. ----- sojourn (intransitive verb) To live for a short time in a place; stay temporarily. Related: live, dwell, lodge, reside, abide.  . . see: "LOVE" see "TIME" for related links MAFIA VALENTINES My love for you, it came and went. So now your feet are in wet cement. -- I picked up this card from a slim selection. But that's all they offer in witness protection. Love, J. Doe -- Violets are blue, roses are red. I blew up your car so why ain't you dead? -- Lust is fleeting, True love lingers. Be mine always, And you'll keep your fingers. ----- These are entries to a competition asking for a rhyme with the most romantic first line but least romantic second line: Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss but I only slept with you, cause I was pissed. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot This describes everything you are not. I want to feel your sweet embrace But don't take that paper bag off of your face. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes Damn, I'm good at telling lies! Every time I see your face I wish I were in outer space. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife, Marrying you screwed up my life. I see your face when I am dreaming That's why I always wake up screaming. My feelings for you no words can tell Except for maybe "go to hell." What inspired this amorous rhyme? Two parts vodka, one part lime. --- Trivia: The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day. . . see "MONEY" for related links Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having. --Elizabeth Arden [Florence Nightingale Graham] (18761966) Canadian-born American businesswoman. Attributed, in "Fortune" [October 1973]. Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was, When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. --Samuel Daniel (15621619) English poet and dramatist. "Delia" [1592] sonnet 32 It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. _Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_ [1892] [The] great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their *giving too much for their whistles.* --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. (Referring to the time when at age 7 he was charmed by another boy's whistle which he bought with all the money he had , letter to Madame Brillion [10 November 1779] - Q.) Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there. --Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.) The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power). An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859) English politician and historian. _Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review_ [1843] "Lord Bacon" I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint. --Vincent van Gogh (18531890) Dutch painter. Letter to his brother Theo [20 October 1888]. ;void(0)) VALUES . . see "CHARACTER" for related links You must know when, how, and to whom you must say "no." This involves considerable difficulty at times. You must not hurt people, or want to hurt them, yet you must not placate them at the price of infidelity to higher and more essential values. --Thomas Merton (19151968) American Trappist monk and author. _Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander_ [1966] The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognise and to live with the recognition that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashoning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. The greatest gifts my parents gave to me. . . were their unconditional love and a set of values. Values that they lived and didn't just lecture about. Values that included an understanding of the simple difference between right and wrong, a belief in God, the importance of hard work and education, self-respect and a belief in America. --Colin L. Powell (1937 ) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [19891993] and Secretary of State [20012005]. ----- anomie or anomy (noun) ['ζ-nκ-mee] 1: A breakdown or lack of values, norms, or structure in a society. 2: The alienated feeling of an individual or class resulting from such a breakdown. 3: A personal feeling of not being part of, or responsible to, society. Derived: anomic, adj. The adjective form is used to describe the lack of regulation in social structures such as laissez-faire capitalism.  VANDALISM . . . For cutting the shoots of trees in city parks that bear flowers or fruit or yield shade the fine shall be six pannas [copper or silver coins], for cutting small branches twelve pannas, for cutting stout branches twenty-four pannas, for destroying trunks the lowest fine for violence, for uprooting the tree the middle fine. --Kautilya {also called Canakya, or Visnugupta} (c.350c.275 BC) Hindu statesman and philosopher. _Arthasastra_ (Book of Statecraft), bk 3, ch. 19 . . see: "THE BODY" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. _And Even Now_ [1920] "Quia Imperfectum" ^^ Once when Noλl Coward was crossing from Britain to the United States by ocean liner, the company in the cocktail lounge included a rather pompous English gentleman who was complaining bitterly of a recent occasion on which he had not been treated with the respect he clearly felt he deserved. "They didn't seem to know who I was!' he protested. 'And who *were* you?' enquired Coward politely. _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Actors and the Theatre" ^^ He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. --George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (18191880) English novelist. _Adam Bede_ [1859] Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect; but woman's heart has holier idols. --Augusta Jane Evans (18351909) American novelist. _Beulah_ [1860] He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher. _Meditations_, Book II, Number 5 It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. --Benedict de Spinoza (16321677) Dutch-Jewish philosopher, the foremost exponent of 17th century Rationalism. _Ethics_ [1677] pt. III ^ John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (19071979) American motion-picture actor. Wayne went to Harvard College to receive the famous, and famously satirical, Hasty Pudding Award. At the ensuing press conference he was asked, 'Do you look at yourself as an American legend?' Replied Wayne, 'Well, not being a Harvard man, I don't look at myself any more than necessary.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ----- coxcomb [KOKS-kohm], noun: 1 A fool. 4. A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments. fop (noun) [fahp] A foolish, conceited male obsessed with outward appearance, a vain man who showily overdresses; a dandy; a coxcomb. 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) "Death in the Afternoon" . . see "LIVING" Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. --William Cowper (17311800) English poet and hymnodist. "The Task" [1785] ----- gallimaufry [gal-uh-MAW-free], noun: A medley; a hodgepodge. Syn.: jumble, olla podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri. Ex.: Today bilingual programs are conducted in a gallimaufry of around 80 tongues, ranging from Spanish to Lithuanian to Micronesian Yapese. --Ezra Bowen, "For Learning or Ethnic Pride?" _Time_ [8 July 1985] multifarious [muhl-tuh-FAIR-ee-uhs], adjective: Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified. Ex.: She is good at constructing a long, multifarious narrative, weaving many minor stories into one, so that you are left with a sense of the fluidity and ambiguity of historical interpretation. --Jason Cowley, "It's bright, clever... but the result is academic," _The Observer_, [27 May 2001] protean [PRO-tee-un; pro-TEE-un], adjective: 1. Displaying considerable variety or diversity. 2. Readily assuming different shapes or forms. Ex. 1 : "The [Broadway] musical was ceaselessly protean in these years, usually conventional but always developing convention, twisting it, replacing it." --Ethan Mordden, "Coming Up Roses" Ex. 2 : "He was a protean character who constantly adapted to his environment." --David Maraniss, "The Clinton Enigma" Protean is derived from Proteus, an ancient Greek god who had the ability to change his shape at will. ;void(0)) VEGETABLES / VEGETARIANS . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links Tell me one thing, Shaw, have you eaten that or are you going to? --Sir James Matthew Barrie (18601937) Scottish writer and dramatist. Asked of George Bernard Shaw, a vegetarian, who had before him a plate consisting of some greens and a mixture of salad oils. 'What's up, Doc?' was incomplete without the sound of the rabbit nibbling on the carrot, which presented problems. First of all, I don't especially like carrots, at least not raw. And second, I found it impossible to chew, swallow, and be ready to say my next line. We tried substituting other vegetables, including apples and celery, but with unsatisfactory results. The solution was to stop recording so that I could spit out the carrot into the waste-basket and then proceed with the script. In the course of a recording session I usually went through enough carrots to fill several wastebaskets. Bugs Bunny did for carrots what Popeye the Sailor did for spinach. How many ... children were coerced into eating their carrots by mothers cooing ... "'But Bugs Bunny eats _his_ carrots.' If only they had known. --Mel Blanc (19081989) American voice actor for cartoons. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. --George H. W. Bush (1924 ) American Republican statesman and President [19891993]. Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannybals. --Finley Peter Dunne (18671936) American journalist and humorist. _Mr Dooley's Philosophy_ [1900] You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _The Conduct of Life_ [1860] "Fate" How to eat spinach like a child. Divide into piles. Rearrange again into piles. After five or six manoeuvres, sit back and say you are full. --Delia Ephron Screenwriter and author. The greater red Beet or Roman Beet, boyled and eaten with oyle, vinegar and pepper, is a most excellent and delicate sallad: but what might be made of the red and beautifull root (which is to be preferred before the leaves, as well in beauty as in goodnesse) I refer unto the curious and cunning cooke, who no doubt when he hath had the view thereof, and is assured that it is both good and wholesome, will make thereof many and divers dishes, both faire and good. --John Gerard (1545c.1615) English botanist. _Herball or General Historie of Plantes_[1597] Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. --Sir Robert Hutchison (18711960), President of the Royal College of Physicians. Cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. [5 October 1773], in James Boswell _The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ [1786]. I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show- off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. --Erica Jong (1942 ) American novelist. I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are. --Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold and calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards...wheeze, squeak, drawl and maunder. --J.B. Morton [Beachcomber] (18931979) English humorous writer. _By the Way_ Parsley Is gharsley. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. Let us be brothers with all that lives. We must destroy something to live. We must walk on the grass. We need not eat animals, but we have to eat some plants. We have to pull carrots. We have to eat potatos. We have to bite into beautiful apples. But we can be aware and apologize I do when I eat a radish; I do when I sniff a rose or eat a lettuce leaf. We should know that all forms of life have their rights and their purposes. We should have respect for life, for nature and for beingness. Every atom in life has its own intrinsic value. We have endless opportunities: every hour, every minute we can be aware to help and to make the world a better place for our having lived in it. --Helen Knothe Nearing (19041995) American musician and writer. Speech to the World Vegetarian Congress, The Hague [1994]. God invented vegetables to let women get even with their children. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. Meat and potatoes, that's what I like best! Veg'tables are so hard to digest. Give me meat and potatoes, morning, noon and night That kind of menu makes me feel all right. --Franz Peter Schubert (17971828) Austrian composer. Intermezzo from _Rosamunde_ What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet. --Shel Silverstein (19301999) Ameican poet and songwriter. ^ William Howard Taft (18571930) 27th President of the United States [19091913] and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [19211930] During a political speech a listener threw a cabbage at Taft, who then paused, examined the cabbage, and said, 'I see that one of my opponents has lost its head.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. _Walden_ [1854] "Higher Laws" Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Daughter: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. Cartoon caption, "New Yorker" [8 December 1928] - Rhubarb: As soon as the young shoots begin to appear cover them up with flower-pots, drain-pipes, or anything else that has a hyphen to let the air in. After a week or two, when they are starting to put forth leaves, drench them with quick-lime and replace the covers with the airholes bunged up. If this treatment is not successful, try stamping on them with hob-nailed boots or use the light roller. Very stubborn cases should be uprooted and burnt. --anon. - Vegetarians eat vegetables I am a humanitarian. --anon. Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning "bad hunter." --unknown TOPICAL More Americans are eating their vegetables. But the healthy trend comes with a risk: Illnesses traced to fresh produce are on the rise. Fruits and vegetables are now responsible for more large-scale outbreaks of food-borne illnesses than meat, poultry or eggs. Overall, produce accounts for 12% of food-borne illnesses and 6% of the outbreaks, up from 1% of the illnesses and 0.7% of outbreaks in the 1970s, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meanwhile, meat-related E. coli infections have been on the decline. Several factors are responsible: the centralization of produce distribution, a rise in produce imports, as well as the growing popularity of pre-chopped fruits and vegetables. Both the government and the industry have identified five products that are particularly problematic: tomatoes, melons (especially cantaloupes), lettuce, sprouts and green onions. [. . . ] --Jane Zhang, "When Eating Your Vegetables Makes You Sick" _The Wall Street Journal_ [30 November 2005] ----- herbivore (noun) ['hκr-bκ-vor] Any creature that eats only plants and vegetables. . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. --Lazarus Long (fictional character in Robert A. 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