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;void(0)) . . . WEALTH see "MONEY" for related links No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregational minister; [brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher]. _Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher_ [1858] Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right! It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan. --Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. "Lord Finchley" [1911] Wealth maketh many friends. --Bible "Proverbs" 19:4 The man who dies. . . rich, dies disgraced. --Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) American businessman and philanthropist of Scottish birth. In "North American Review" [June 1889] "Wealth". We have extravagance and greed, public poverty and private opulence. --Cato the Younger (96-46 B.C.) Roman politician and statesman. Roman Senate speech. In Sallust (86?-34? B.C.) _The War With Catiline_, tr. J..C. Rolfe [1921]. The accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence... So long as wealth is made the means and not the end, we need not greatly fear it. ... It is only those who do not understand the American people who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element in all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. That is the only motive to which they give any strong and lasting reaction. --Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) American Republican statesman and President [1923-1929]. In his "The chief business of the American people is business" speech. The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction, A real big spender. . . Hey! big spender, spend a little time with me. --Dorothy Fields (1905-1974) American lyricist. "Big Spender" [1966 song] - The Way to Wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the Way to Market. It depends chiefly on two Words, Industry and Frugality; i.e., Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, "Advice to a Young Tradesman" [1748] He who multiplies Riches, multiplies Cares. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1744] Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American politician, inventor, and scientist, _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [July 1755] - The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt. --John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2004) American economist, _The Affluent Society_ [1958] Over the centuries those who have been blessed with wealth have developed many remarkably ingenious and persuasive justifications of their good fortune. The instinct of the liberal is to look at these explanations with a rather unyielding eye. Yet in this case the facts are inescapable. It is the increase in output in recent years, not the redistribution of income, which has brought the greatest material increase, the well- being of the average man. And, however suspiciously, the liberal has come to accept the fact. --John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) American economist, _The Affluent Society_ [1958], pp. 96-97 - Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocracy. --Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) American journalist, _Pieces of Eight_ I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. --Ben Hecht (1893-1964) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Away with delay! The chance of great fortune is short-lived. --Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26-102) Latin epic poet. In Tom Morris _The Art of Achievement: Mastering the 7 Cs of Success in Business and Life_ [2002] A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no merrier on velvet cushions than we did on wooden chairs. Often have I sighed in those low- ceilinged rooms, yet disappointments have come neither less nor lighter since I quitted them. Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another. As our means increase, so do our desires; and we ever stand midway between the two. --Jerome K (Klapka) Jerome (1859-1927) English novelist and playwright, "On Furnished Apartments" ^ One of the most surprising results to emerge from the accumulating official data - surprising, given the breathless media accounts of successes of the boom in the closing years of the Nineties - is the almost startling disparity in incomes that has been developing. By the end of 1999, according to data compiled by the Congressional Budget Office, four out of five American households, or about 217 million people, were taking home a thinner slice of the economic pie than in 1977. At the same time, more than 90 percent of the increase in national family income was going to the richest 1 percent of households. Incomes of the richest Americans were rising twice as fast as those of the middle class. Even more startling are the figures for the rewards gained by business leaders. In 1980, heads of American corporations were earning over forty times more than their workers. By the early Nineties, just as the boom was getting under way, they were earning more than ninety times more than their workers. By the end of the Nineties, the gap between top and bottom had widened even more astoundingly. Then, heads of American corporations were earning 419 times as much as industrial workers! This figure prompted the Economist to call it the greatest peacetime transfer of wealth in history, a sober assessment given the dimensions of the extraordinary shift in economic wealth and power. --Haynes Johnson (1931- ) American journalist; winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. _The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years_ [2001] ^ For of those to whom much is given, much is required. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963]. Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. --attributed to John Pierpont Morgan, Sr. (1837-1913) American banker, financier, and benefactor of the arts - Wealth, properly employed, is a blessing; and a man may lawfully endeavor to increase it by honest means. --Muhammad (A.D. 570?-632), prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed, _The Sayings of Muhammad_, 386 tr. Abdullah Al-Suhrawardy [1941] A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. --Muhammad (A.D. 570?-632), prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed - It is wealth to be content. --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) _The Way of Life_, ch. 33, tr. R. B. Blakney [1955] Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. --Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German novelist. _Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces_ , ch. VIII. A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But diamonds are a girl's best friend. --Leo Robin (1900-1984) American songwriter. "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" [1949 song] Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. --Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American Republican statesman and President [1901-1909], speech in Providence, R.I. [23 August 1902] Which reminds me of the man I read of in some sacred book who was given a choice of what he most desired. And because he didn't ask for titles and honours and dignities, but only for immense wealth, these other things came to him also. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870-1916) Scottish writer, _Reginald at the Theatre_ Only a few held their honor dearer than gold. --Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86BC-35/34 BC) Roman historian, _The Jugurthine War_ [c. 41-40 B.C.] {referring to the corruptibility of Roman upper classes} To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober. --Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) American-born man of letters, _Afterthoughts_ [1931] "In the World" Abundance changes the value of things. --Terence [Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 190-159 BC), Roman comic dramatist - A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, _Walden_ [1854] "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" That man is the richest whose pleasures are cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, _Journal_ [1906] "11 March 1856" - Them as has, gits. --popular saying He who loves gold is a fool; he who fears it, is a slave; he who adores it, is an idolater; he who hoards it up, a dunce; he who uses it, is the wise man. --"Old Farmer's Almanac" [1840] One great and growing sin of a national character is an inordinate desire to get rich and rich in a hurry. As wealth is the only aristocracy in America, every man seems bent on attaining to that important distinction. The "haste to get rich" fosters a speculative spirit, and men rush hap-hazard into schemes for the sudden aquisition of wealth. Bubbles are blown, consequently, all around us. The man who amasses wealth thus suddenly rarely retains it, while his momentary success lures thousands to the same delusive pursuits. --"Scientific American" [June 1850] --- [WEALTH: TOPICAL] WASHINGTON (AP) - America's richest got richer between 1992 and 2000, according to an Internal Revenue Service report released Wednesday. The adjusted gross income of the country's top 400 taxpayers totaled almost $70 billion in 2000, according to the IRS, for an average of $173.9 million. The richest 400 in 1992 accumulated just under $19 billion, for an average of only $46.8 million. Over the nine-year period, the minimum adjusted gross income to get on the top 400 list more than tripled, from $24.4 million to $86.8 million. In 2000, the 400 paid 22.3 percent of their income to federal income taxes, down from 26.4 percent in 1992. The richest 400 made 1.09 percent of U.S. income in 2000, more than double the percentage in 1992, when they accounted for just 0.52 percent, the IRS said. On the Net: Internal Revenue Service: http://www.irs.gov ----- arriviste a-ree-VEEST, noun: A person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart. Ex.: He excavates enough dirt that, midway through the book, the reader loses sympathy with Bernays, who comes across as an insufferable egotist and insecure, name-dropping arriviste. Ron Chernow, "First Among Flacks" _New York Times_ [16 August 1998] commodious kuh-MOH-dee-us, adjective: Comfortably or conveniently spacious; roomy; as, a commodious house. cupidity (noun) Excessive desire, especially for wealth. philistinism (noun) A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters. scion (noun) A younger member of family: a child or descendant of a family, especially a rich, famous, or important family.  . . see "WAR & PEACE" for related links Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. --Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) British poet, essayist, historian, and novelist. _The Modern Traveller_ [1909]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 693; Cohan & Major note: A succinct verdict by the British writer on the balance of power between imperialism and its subjects in the closing decade of this period. The Maxim gun was the machine-gun invented by the American arms manufacturer Hiram Maxim in 1883. - The crossbow is a weapon of the barbarians [western crusaders], absolutely unknown to the Greeks. ... this instrument of war ... fires weapons to an enormous distance ... Arrows of all kinds are fired. They are very short, but extremely thick with a heavy iron tip ... [the arrows] transfix a shield, cut through a heavy iron breastplate and resume their flight on the far side, so irresistible and violent is the discharge. An arrow of this type has been known to make its way right through a bronze statue ... Such is the crossbow, a truly diabolic machine. The unfortunate man who is struck by it dies without feeling the blow; however strong the impact he knows nothing of it. --Anna Comnena (1083-1153) Byzantine historian. _The Alexiad_ [c.1148], In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 213. & see: The crossbow had been initially banned by the church (in 1139), at least in wars between Christians, on the grounds of its frightfulness. By the I280s, however, it was becoming increasingly common. It was less accurate than the longbow, had a slower rate of fire (one shaft to the longbow's six a minute) and was much more expensive. --John Larner Italy in the Age of Dante and Petrarch 1216-1380_ [1980] p. 216. - 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 (1890-1969), American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, American President [1953-1961]. Speech in Washington [16 April 1953], in _Public Papers of Presidents_ "1953" [1960] p. 182. History could hang in the balance tonight. Give us bombs for peace. {On the need to maintain military pressure on Serbia.} --Richard Holbrooke (1941- ) American diplomat. Telegram to the State Department [summer 1995]. For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against. --Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Florentine statesman and political philosopher. - 'Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world,' AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans' attitudes about the Vietnam War. For all the image's political impact, though, the situation wasn't as black-and-white as it's rendered. What Adams' photograph doesn't reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war's savagery and made the official pulling the trigger-- General Nguyen Ngoc Loan--its iconic villain. Sadly, the photograph's legacy would haunt Loan for the rest of his life. Following the war, he was reviled wherever he went. After an Australian VA hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. He eventually settled in Virginia and opened a restaurant but was forced to close it down as soon as his past caught up with him. Vandals scrawled 'We know who you are' on his walls, and business dried up. Adams felt so bad for Loan that he apologized for having taken the photo at all, admitting, 'The general killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera.' --Ransom Riggs _Mental Floss Magazine_ [Jan/Feb 2007], "13 Photographs That Changed The World: #4: The Photograph That Ended A War But Ruined A Life" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Loan - You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. --Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879-1935) American humorist and actor. In "New York Times" [23 December 1929]. When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. --Bishop Robert South (1634-1716) English theologian and author. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" [1854] - The Dutch are the most expert Founders in the World, and furnish most Countries with Ordnance. The German, Spanish, Italian, African and Turkish Troops have their arms principally from Amsterdam; as also their Cannon, Mortars, Powder and Lead. What is more, during the last two general Wars, Louis XIV, who thought to carry every Art and Manufacture to its highest Perfection, and particularly all that appertained to the Art Military, was however obliged to the Gunsmiths and Founders of Amsterdam, the Metropolis of an Enemy, for Arms and Ammunition for his Troops. --anon. _A Description of Holland_ [1743], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 385 - While they were waiting at a bus stop in Cleriston, Mr and Mrs Daniel Thirsty were threatened by a Mr Robert Clear. 'He demanded that I give him my wife's purse,' said Mr Thirsty. 'Telling him that the purse was in her basket, I bent down, put my hands up her skirt, detached her artificial leg and hit him over the head with it. It was not my intention to do more than frighten him off, but, unhappily for us, he died.' --"Evening News" (Edinburgh) [18 August 1978] ----- cudgel KUH-juhl, noun: 1. A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club. 2. To beat with or as if with a cudgel. nunchaku (noun) A martial arts weapon consisting of two thick sticks joined at their ends by a rawhide band, rope, or chain. petard (noun) [pê-'tahrd] 1. A military incendiary device for blowing up gates and city walls. 2. A firecracker that explodes with a loud report.  WEASELS . . see "DECEPTION" for related links I have a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel. --Rowan Atkinson (1955- ) British comedian and actor. "Black Adder the Third" [British TV show] - Marge, don't discourage the boy. Weaselling out of things is important to learn. 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