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. . . WAGES see "WORK" for related links A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. --Milton Friedman (19122006) American laissez-faire economist; winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics. Interview in _Playboy_ [February 1973]. We're overpaying him but he's worth it. --attributed to Samuel Goldwyn [Schmuel Gelbfisz] (18821974) American film producer. - $25 million - amount of money made by TV icon Judge Judy in 2005, according to a survey for National Payroll Week. $200,000 - Amount former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor earned when she served. $350,000 - Amount of money made by actor Will Ferrell annually on "Saturday Night Live" when he portrayed President George W. Bush. $400,000 - Amount of money paid annually to President George W. Bush. --_Las Vegas Business Press_ [19 March 2007] - - The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00 There's a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market. --editorial in the _New York Times_ [14 January 1987] - - $19,915 - Average annual income for a person age 18 and older holding less than a high school diploma. $29,448 - Average annual income for a person age 18 and older holding a high school diploma. $54,689 - Average annual income for a person age 18 and older holding a bachelor's degree. $79,946 - Average annual income for a person age 18 and older possessing a master's, professional or doctoral degree. --U.S. Census Bureau [2000] - ----- emolument (noun) [๊-'mah-ly๊-m๊nt or ee-'mah-ly๊-m๊nt] Compensation or perquisites received for employment.  . . see: "DELAY" see: "IDLENESS" see: "INACTIVITY", "INDECISION" see: "LAZINESS" see: "PATIENCE" see: "REST" - All things come round to him who will but wait. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Tales of a Wayside Inn_ [1863] "The Falcon of Ser Federigo" & see: All things come to those who wait. --Violet Fain _From Dawn to Noon_ [1872] & see: All things come to those who wait if they don't die first. --anon. in "All The Year Round" (a weekly journal) [2 June 1894] & see: Ah, 'all things come to those who wait,' (I say these words to make me glad), But something answers, soft and sad, 'They come, but often come too late.' --Mary Singleton [n้e Lamb] (18431905) [later Baronness Currie] English poet. - How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory. --Thomas Szasz (1920 ) American psychiatrist. _The Second Sin_ [1973] ----- queue (noun) [kyu] A line, a row of people. ;void(0)) WALES . . see "PLACES" for related links - "Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?" "No, but I'd often thought I'd like to." "Well don't, it's a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam there terrifying people with their close harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the placenames. Never ask directions in Wales, Baldrick. You'll be washing spittle out of your hair for a fortnight." --Blackadder (Richard Curtis and Ben Elton) [UK TV show 1982-2002]. - The Scots love to roam the world; the Welsh feel homesick if they have to go as far as London. ... A Scotsman may speak nostalgically of Scotland, but a Welshman will actually wish to return to Wales. --Anthony Glyn (19221998) British novelist. _The British: Portrait of a People_ [1970] Wales! Wales! land of the slugs and the snails! In buckets and pails The rain falls on Wales And when it's not raining It hails. --Sir A.P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert (18901971) English writer and humorist. The Welsh are a nation of male-voice choir lovers whose only hobbies are rugby and romantic involvement with sheep. --Lenny Henry Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales which doesn't. --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. Among our ancient mountains, And from our lovely vales, Oh, let the prayer re-echo: God bless the Prince of Wales! --George Linley (17981865) English songwriter. "God Bless the Prince of Wales" [1862 song], translated from the Welsh original by J.C. Hughes (18371867). The way to make a Welch-man thirst for blisse And say his prayers on his knees: Is to perswade him, that most certaine 'tis, The Moone is made of nothing but greene Cheese. And hee'l desire of God no greater boone, But place in heaven to feed upon the Moone. --John Taylor (15781653) English poet. _All the Works of John Taylor_ [1630] The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it. --Dylan Thomas (19141953) Welsh poet. In "Adam" [December 1953]. There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaity is a striped shroud. --Gwyn Thomas (19131981) Welsh novelist and dramatist. _Punch_ [18 June 1958] - The Russians were attempting to set up a spy ring in Wales. A top KBG agent called Vladimir was told, 'Proceed to Cardiff and take the branch line to Abercwmscwt. There you will meet a man called Jones. You will say to him, 'The daffodils are blooming early this year.' He will tell you how to set up the spy ring.' Vladimir finally arrives at Abercwmscwt and asks the ticket collector, 'Do you know a man called Jones?' The ticket collector replies, 'Well it depends which Jones you want. There's Jones the Bread, Jones the Milk, Jones the Death (he's the funeral director). In fact, my name is Jones.' 'The daffodils are blooming early this year,' says Vladimir. 'Oh,' says the ticket collector, 'it's Jones the Spy you want.' -  WALKING . . see: "EXERCISE" see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" see: "TRAVEL" for other related links I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (18941956) American humorist. Attributed in "Reader's Digest", vol. 55 [1949]. I'd walk a mile for a Camel. --Camel cigarettes advertising slogan 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.' --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, ch. 10 [1865] I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Way of the World", act IV [1700] Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner and then to thinking! --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. "On Going a Journey" Walking is man's best medicine. --attributed to Hippocrates (c. 460377 BC) Greek physician. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is best. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. [27 August 1786]. Above all do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill...if one keeps on walking everything will be alright. --attributed to S๖ren Kierkegaard (18131855) Danish philosopher. - 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 - ... I am a confirmed saunterer. I love to be set down haphazard among unknown byways; to saunter with open eyes, watching the moods and humors of men, the shapes of their dwellings, the criss-cross of their streets. It is an implanted passion that grows keener and keener. The everlasting lure of round-the- corner, how fascinating it is! --Christopher Morley (18901957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. "Sauntering" [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" If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. --Francis Quarles (15921644) English poet. _Enchyridion_ [pub. by Charles Baldwyn, London, 1822 ed.] It takes days of practice to learn the art of sauntering. Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snails pace. --Edwin Way Teale (18991980) American naturalist, writer, and photographer. _Circle of the Seasons_ [1953] Pick the right grandparents, don't eat or drink too much, be circumspect in all things, and take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Prescription for reaching the age of 80, remark to reporters on his 80th birthday, Washington, D.C. [8 May 1964]. Golf is a good walk spoiled. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Attributed in Reader's Digest [September 1948]. The church is near but the roads are icy. The tavern is far but I'll walk carefully. --Ukrainian Proverb ----- 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] perambulate [puh-RAM-byuh-layt], intransitive verb: 1. To walk about; to roam; to stroll. transitive verb: 1. To walk through or over. 2. To travel over for the purpose of surveying or inspecting. peregrination (noun) [pe-r๊-gri-'ney-sh๊n] A long, meandering journey or walk; a course of travel. The word implies long, drawn-out travels. peripatetic [pair-uh-puh-TET-ik], adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. noun: 1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. 2. A follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. Ex.: I was born in Italy, my sister on the west coast of Canada, because my father was pursuing a peripatetic career as an artist. --Anna Shapiro, "USA Today," [13 July 2000] ;void(0)) WAR & PEACE . . 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