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. . . WASHINGTON (D.C.) see: "POLITICS" for related links see: "PLACES" for related links Outside of the killings [Washington, D.C.] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. --Marion Barry (b. 1936) Mayor of Washington DC [19791991 & 19951999]. Quoted in "Chicago Tribune" [28 March 1989]. - First in war, first in peace, last in the American League. --Charles Dryden (18691931) American sportswriter. Quoted in "Washington Post" [27 June 1904]. & note: First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. --Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (17561818) American cavalry officer during the American Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee. In a eulogy for George Washington, in the House of Representatives [26 December 1799]. - I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money. --Fred Thompson (1942 ) American actor and politician. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. Speech in St. Louis, Missouri [5 September 1919].  . . see: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION" see: "FREEDOM" see: "PEOPLE" see: "POLITICS" THE PAPERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: The father of his country. --Francis Bailey (c. 17351815) American printer and journalist. Caption under the portrait of Washington, in the "Nord Americanische Kalender" Lancaster, Pennsylvania [1779]. He stands the noblest leader who ever was entrusted with his country's life. His patience under provocation, his calmness in danger, and lofty courage when all others despaired, his prudent delays when delay was best, and his quick and resistless blows when action was possible, his magnanimity to defamers and generosity to his foes, his ambition for his country and unselfishness for himself, his sole desire of freedom and independence for America, and his only wish to return after victory to private life, have all combined to make him, by the unanimous judgment of the world, the foremost figure of history. --Chauncey Depew (18341928) American orator, politician, and railroad president. Speech [22 February 1888]. - His memory will be adored while liberty shall have votaries, his name will triumph over time and will in future ages assume its just station among the most celebrated worthies of the world. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. On George Washington, in _Notes on the State of Virginia_ [1784]. His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion. [...] His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible l have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man. --Thomas Jefferson (17431826) American statesman and president [18011809]. In a letter to Walter Jones [2 January 1814]. - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. --Henry Lee [Light-Horse Harry Lee] (17561818) American cavalry officer during the American Revolution and father of Robert E. Lee. In a eulogy in the House of Representatives [26 December 1799]. This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earthlong since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Speech [22 February 1842]. The character and services of this gentleman are sufficient to put all those men called kings to shame. While they are receiving from the sweat and labors of mankind prodigality to which neither their abilities nor their services can entitle them, he is rendering every service in his power, and refusing every precuniary award. He accepted no pay as commander- in-chief; he accepts none as President of the United States. --Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (17371809) English-American writer and political pamphleteer. _Rights of Man_ [1791] The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Address to the Continental Army before the battle of Long Island [27 August 1776]. ;void(0)) WASTE . . see: "ENVIRONMENT / ENVIRONMENTALISTS" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (18901969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [19531961]. Speech in Washington [16 April 1953], in _Public Papers of Presidents_ "1953" [1960] p. 182. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Autobiography_ "The Way to Wealth" [1798] He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. --Charles Kingsley (18191875) English writer and clergyman. The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. --Walter Savage Landor (17751864) English poet. Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. --Aunt 'Bee' Taylor, fictional character, "The Andy Griffith Show" (196068); portrayed by Frances Bavier (19021989). ----- profligate (adj.) 1. wasteful: extremely extravagant or wasteful 2. with low morals: having or showing extremely low moral standards wastrel [WAY-struhl], noun: 1. A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a spendthrift. 2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing. Ex.: Was her father ... the brilliant, glamorous figure she remembered, or the alcoholic wastrel his own brother described? --Jean Strouse, "Making the Facts Obey," _New York Times_, [24 May 1992] . . see: "TIME" for related links Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. --Greg Anderson (1964 ) American basketball player. Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. --Bible "Matthew" 7:6 NKJV It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. Quoted in Chetwood Evelyn _The Companion. After-Dinner Table-Talk_ [1850]. Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. --Frank Moore Colby (18651925) American essayist and professor. _Imaginary Obligations_ [1904] Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander Time, for that is the Stuff Life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [June 1746] Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. --Robert Heinlein (19071988) American science-fiction writer. _Time Enough for Love_ "Prelude II" [1973] Don't waste any time mourning organize! --Joe Hill [Joel Hδgglund] (18791915) Swedish-born American labor leader. Letter to William D. Heywood [18 November 1915]. Hill was executed the next day for murdering a Utah grocer. - Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. _Epistles_ I, 18, 69 & note: Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. - Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. --Sir John Lubbock (18341913) The First Lord and Baron Avebury who was a British banker, politician, and archaeologist. _The Use of Life_, ch. IV "Recreation" [1894] The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. --attributed to Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. --Herbert Spencer (18201903) English philosopher. "Definitions" One evening at dinner, realizing that he had done nobody any favor since the previous night, Titus spoke these memorable words: 'My friends, I have wasted a day.' --Suetonius [Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus] (c. 69c. 122) Roman biographer and antiquarian. _"Titus"_ [c. 120] One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. To Herbert Westbrok, without whose never-failing advice, help, and encouragement, this book would have been finished in half the time. --P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (18811975) English humorist; American citizen from 1955. _A Gentleman of Leisure_, "Dedication" [1910] ----- dalliance DAL-ee-uhns, DAL-yuhns, noun: 1. Frivolous spending of time; dawdling. 2. Playful flirtation. . . see: "NIXON YEARS" see: "POLITICS" for other related links My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. --Gerald R. Ford (19092006) 38th President of the United States [19741977]. Following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon and his own succession to the Presidency, television broadcast [9 August 1974].  WAYNE (JOHN) . . see: "ACTORS" for related links see: "PEOPLE" for related links - Everybody called him Duke, but I called him John. He asked me why I never called him Duke. "Maybe Prince or King but Duke?" Too low I'll call you John." I enjoyed working with John. In "The War Wagon," Wayne was getting bored by people telling him how adept Douglas was with a horse. He was being interviewed by a reporter who asked, "Is Kirk really that good with a horse?" John scowled: "Bullsh**, he can't even get on a horse without a trampoline!" But in spite of that, we were always good friends, and did three movies together. --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916 ) American film actor and producer. _My Stroke of Luck_ [2002], "Don't Forget the Pooper-Scooper" - - He and his drinking buddy, actor Ward Bond, frequently played practical jokes on each other. In one incident, Bond bet Wayne that they could stand on opposite sides of a newspaper and Wayne wouldn't be able to hit him. Ward Bond set a sheet of newspaper down in a doorway, John Wayne stood on one end, and Bond slammed the door in his face, shouting "Try and hit me now!" Wayne responded by sending his fist through the door, flooring Bond (and winning the bet). [...] The evening before a shoot he was trying to get some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra (never a good friend of Wayne), who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne awake, and each time he made a complaining phone call it quieted temporarily but each time eventually grew louder. Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of Wayne's size approached saying, "Nobody talks to Mr. Sinatra that way." Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave, then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor, where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped. Wayne's production company, Batjac, was originally to be called Batjak, after the ship owned by his character in the film "Reap the Wild Wind." A secretary's typo while she was drawing up the papers resulted in it being called Batjac, and Wayne, not wanting to hurt her feelings, kept her spelling of it. I would like to be remembered, well...the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means, he was ugly, strong and had dignity. --from a 1969 "Time" magazine interview with John Wayne. - ;void(0)) WEAK/WEAKNESS . . see: "COWARDS" see: "FEAR" see: "INDECISION" see: "SICK/SICKNESS" see: "STRENGTH, STRENGTH & WEAKNESS" see: "FAILURE" for other related links We justly consider women, as a rule, to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. --Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (17411794) French playwright and conversationalist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts About Women_, p. 313 [1882]. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. --Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (16971780) French hostess and patron of the arts. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_ [1872]. Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. _Letters Written By The Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son_ [3rd. ed., 1774, 4 vol.] Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. --William Chillingworth (16021644) English theologian. Attributed in Charles Noel Douglas _Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical_, p. 117 [1917]. [Of the 17th Earl of Derby:] A very weak-minded fellow, I am afraid, and, like a feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who sat on him! --Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (18611928) British soldier and senior commander during World War I. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. _Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims_ [1823] A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. --George W. Henry _Tell Tale Rag_ [1861] What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? --Eric Hoffer (19021983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. _The Passionate State of Mind_ [1955] Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. Quoted in Craufurd Tait Ramage _Beautiful Thoughts From French And Italian Authors _ [1866]. We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. --Madame de Lambert (16471733) French writer and salonniθre. Attributed in Rufus E. Shapley & Ainsworth R. Spofford (eds.) _A Library of Wit and Humor_, vol. 4, p. 303 [5 vols., 1884]. The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) German scientist and drama critic. _Aphorisms_ [17651799] Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _Of Human Bondage_, ch. 39 [1915] Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule. --Lady Sydney Morgan [Sydney Owenson] (17831859) Irish novelist. Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Edge-Tools of Speech_, p. 13 [1886]. The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little mouldy. It moulds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails. --Marge Piercy (b. 1936) American poet and novelist. _Woman on the Edge of Time_ [1976] I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. --Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923 ) American psychiatrist and author. You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _The Amateur Emigrant_ [18791880, published 1895] - A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. Should you see another person openly doing evil, or carrying out a wicked purpose, do not on that account consider yourself better than him, for you cannot tell how long you will remain in a state of grace. We are all frail; consider none more frail than yourself. --Thomas a' Kempis (13801471) German ascetical writer. _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420], Book 1, Chapter 2, "On Personal Humility" - Every man has an Achilles' Heel, located not on his foot but in his crotch. --Barbara G. Walker (1930 ) American author and feminist. _The Skeptical Feminist: Discovering the Virgin, Mother, and Crone_ [1987] There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. --George Washington (17321799) American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution [17751783] and first president of the United States [17891797]. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. --Thornton Wilder (18971975) American novelist and dramatist. _The Matchmaker_, act 3 [1954] ----- attenuate (verb) [κ-'ten-yu-weyt] To make thinner-narrower, rarer, or weaker; to reduce in strength, force, effect; to weaken. enervate [EN-ur-vayt], transitive verb: 1. To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to render feeble; to weaken. 2. To reduce the moral or mental vigor of. Ex.: The conquerors were enervated by luxury. --Edward Gibbon, _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ etiolate [EE-tee-uh-layt], transitive verb: 1. (Botany) To bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight. 2. To make pale or sickly. 3. To make weak by stunting the growth or development of. Es.: [They] had feverish eyes, pale faces and gaunt, etiolated bodies from spending all the hours of daylight shut up in cramped and often humid spaces. -- Hilary Spurling _The Unknown Matisse_ feckless (adj.) ['fek-lis] Weak, ineffective, lacking vigor, energy. frangible [FRAN-juh-buhl], adjective: Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. languid [LANG-gwid], adjective: 1. Drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion; weak; weary; heavy. 2. Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness. 3. Slow; lacking vigor or force. languor (noun) ['lζng-gr] Weakness, a sense of lassitude or inertia; mild depression, listlessness. milksop [MILK-sop], noun: An effeminate or weak-minded person; an unmanly man. Ex.: But though intelligent and 'good tempered', he was also something of a milksop, unlike his younger brothers who were 'full of courage'. --Saul David, _Prince of Pleasure_ nebbish [NEB-ish], noun: A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person. opportunistic (adj.) [ah-pκr-tyu-'nis-tik] Exploiting opportunities presented by some weakness; taking advantage of weaknesses in others. pusillanimous (adj.) [pyu-si-'lζ-nκ-mκs] Faint-hearted, lacking courage. truckle [TRUHK-uhl], intransitive verb: To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to act in a subservient manner. end page | UGLY - UNICORNS | UNHAPPINESS | UNIONS - USELESS | VACATION - VEGETABLES | VENICE - VICTORY | VIGILANCE - VIRGINITY | VIRTUE - VULGARITY | WAGES - WAR & PEACE | WAR (THE CIVIL) - WAR (THE REVOLUTIONARY) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (THOUGHTS ABOUT) - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 1 A-M) | WAR (VIETNAM - PAGE 2 N-Z) | WAR (WORLD WAR I) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 1 (A-M) | WAR (WORLD WAR II) PAGE 2 (N-Z) | WASHINGTON (D.C.) - WEAK/WEAKNESS | WEALTH - WEASELS | WEATHER - WELLS (H.G.) | WEST (THE OLD/WILD) - WILDE (OSCAR) | WILL - WINNING | WINTER - WISDOM | WISHING - WIVES | WOMEN - WOMEN'S LIB | WOMEN'S RIGHTS - WORDS | WORK - WORLD | WORLD TRADE CENTER & PENTAGON DISASTER, 11 SEPTEMB | WORRY - WRONG | WRITING | YESTERDAY - ZOOS | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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