Fishing And Angling

Kyle: What’s the easiest way to catch a fish?
Caleb: Have someone throw it at you.
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“I never lost a little fish - Yes, I’m free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.” -Eugene Field (1850 - 1895)
 
Ronald: What were the anglers doing on the shore?
Chester: Having a reel good time.
 
Grace and her grandson Eddy were digging for fishing bait in the garden. Uncovering a many-legged creature, Eddy proudly dangled it before his grandmother. “No, honey, he won’t do for bait,” she said. “He’s not an earthworm.” “He’s not?” Eddy asked, his eyes wide. “What planet is he from?”
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Fishing
 
When I go fishing
     I’m always wishing
Some fish will be my prize;
     But while I’m fishing,
The fish are wishing
     Otherwise.
 
And all the wishes
     Of all the fishes
Seem always to come true;
     So all my wishes
To catch some fishes
     Never do.
 
By Author Unknown
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​“Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the scheme of things - your place in the Universe . . . I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole in this vast world and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are hundreds of millions of fish . . . all of them laughing at me . . .” -Author Unknown
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Judith: Why are fish so smart?
Meredith: Because they swim in schools.
 
Jordan: Why do fish swim in schools?
Israel: Because they can’t walk.
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“If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.” -George Allen
 
“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
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“Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.” -Author Unknown
 
James: What do you call a couple who go fishing together?
Elijah: Rod and Annette.
 
One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. Fish have growth rings just as trees do. The growth rings on fish are called circuli, and clusters of circuli are called annuli. Each annuli marks one year of life in a fish.
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Question: How do you make a goldfish old?
Answer: Take away the ‘g.’
 
Three men were sitting on a park bench. The one in the middle was reading a newspaper; the others were pretending to fish. They baited imaginary hooks, cast lines, and reeled in their catch. A passing policeman stopped to watch the spectacle, and asked the man in the middle if he knew the other two. “Oh, yes,” he said. “They’re my friends.” “In that case,” warned the officer, “you’d better get them out of here.” “Yes, sir,” the man replied, and he began rowing furiously.

“A fishing line has a hook on one end and an optimist on the other.” -Author Unknown
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“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” -Doug Larson (Douglas Lincoln ‘Doug’ Larson (1926 - 2017))
 
“Fishing enables us to get closer to nature.” -Fennel Hudson
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“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he’ll eat for weeks!” -Toshihiro Kawabata
 
Clarise: What kind of music should you listen to while fishing?
Clarissa: Something catchy.
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“You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don’t want to eat the fish, but they do want to make it late for something. ‘Where were you?’ ‘I got caught!’ ‘I don’t believe you, let me see the inside of your lip.’” -Mitch Hedberg (Mitchell Lee ‘Mitch’ Hedberg (1968 - 2005))
 
Fisherman Fisher
 
A fitful young fisher named Fisher
Once fished for some fish in a fissure,
     Till a fish, with a grin,
     Pulled the fisherman in -
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher!
 
By Author Unknown
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A five-year-old boy had gone fishing with his grandmother. After an hour or so, his grandmother asked him, “Are you having any luck?” He replied indignantly, “No, I don’t think my worm is really trying.”
 
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat.” -Author Unknown
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Why not make fishing a family affair?
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“The fishing was good, it was the catching that was bad.” -A. K. Best (born 1933)
 
How many fishermen does it take to change a light bulb? Seven - and you should have seen the size of that light bulb. It was this long . . . Seven of us were almost not enough; we could barely handle it!
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One fish.
Two fish.
Red fish.
Blue fish.
Black fish.
Blue fish.
Old fish.
New fish.
This one has a little star.
This one has a little car.
Say! What a lot of fish there are.
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” (1960)
 
Fishing has been around for a long time. The oldest fishhook found so far dates back to about 42,000 years ago. Do you think the fish were any bigger back then?
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“Give a man a fish, and it will feed him for a day; give a man a fishing rod, and he will sell it for more fish, or burn it for firewood.” -Jon Culshaw
 
A fisherman accidentally dropped his wallet into the water, and was amazed to see a school of carp deftly balancing the wallet on their heads and tossing it from one fish to another. “Golly,” said the fisherman, “that’s the first time I’ve ever seen carp-to-carp walleting.” (pun on ‘wall-to-wall carpeting’)
 
“Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are a fish.” -Author Unknown
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At the end of the day, you can take your catch home . . . with full bragging rights . . .
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“Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.” -Zenna Schaffer
 
Fish can be frozen, canned, and smoked to build a stockpile of food for the winter season.
 
“The first rule of fishing: The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.” -Author Unknown
 
Give a man a fish, and he has food for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he has to buy fishing licenses, park passes, rods, reels, fishing lines, hooks, tackle boxes, lures, spinners, sinkers, bobbers, nets, bait, knives, hats, fishing vests, fish finders, depth sounders, boats, outboard motors, gas cans, trailers, global positioning systems, ice chests, bags of ice, waders, buckets, sunglasses, sunscreen lotions, first aid kits, floatation vests, sandwiches, beverages, fishing pliers, cameras, binoculars, weight scales, tape measures, folding chairs, a 4-wheel drive vehicle, bumper stickers, ropes . . . did we forget anything?
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To catch a Swedish fish . . . use a gummy worm. (A ‘Swedish fish’ is a candy.)
 
“Fish: An underwater creature that grows fastest between when it is caught and the time the fisherman describes it to his friends.” -Author Unknown
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“Let your hook be always cast, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely waters.” -Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
 
The Fishing Pole
 
A fishing pole’s a curious thing,
     It’s made of just a stick and string;
A boy at one end and a wish,
     And on the other end a fish.
 
By Mary Caroline Davies
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​“The fish does not go after the hook, but after the bait.” -Author Unknown: Czech proverb
 
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they will not bother you for weeks.
 
“Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman’s job is simple: Pick out the best parts.” -Charles Waterman
 
“Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.” -Ann Landers
 
Bret: How do you get your little sister to find so many worms for you when you want to go fishing?
Bert: Oh, that’s easy. Out of every ten she digs up, I let her have one to eat.
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Kel: Are you fishing?
Cal: No, just teaching worms to swim.
 
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Unless he doesn’t like sushi - then you also have to teach him to cook.” -Auren Hoffman
 
Fish 
 
One, two, three, four, five,
     I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
     I let him go again!
Why did I let him go?
     Because he bit my finger so.
Which finger did he bite?
     The little one on the right.
 
By Author Unknown
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“The early angler catches the best fishing spot.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

​Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who was always talking about the giant fish he almost caught. One day he took his two sons, Toward and Away, fishing with him. That night, he returned more excited than ever. “Honey,” he yelled to his wife, “you should have seen the fish I saw today. A tremendous green fish, ten feet long, with horns and fur all over its back. It came crawling out of the water, snatched our son Toward, and swallowed him in one gulp!” “Good gracious!” exclaimed his wife. “That’s horrible!” “Oh, that was nothing,” said her husband. “You should have seen the one that got Away!”
 
“The two best times to fish is when it’s rainin’ and when it ain’t.” -Patrick F. McManus
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A fisherman returned to shore with a giant marlin that was bigger and heavier than he was. On the way to the cleaning shed, he ran into a second fisherman who had a stringer with a dozen baby minnows on it. The second fisherman looked at the marlin, turned to the first fisherman, and said, “Only caught one, eh?”
 
“Net income: The money a fisherman earns.” -Author Unknown
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Two would-be fishermen rented a boat, and one caught a large fish. “We should mark the spot,” he said. The other fisherman drew a large ‘X’ in the bottom of the boat with a black felt-tip marker. “That’s no good,” said the first fisherman. “Next time out we might not get the same boat.”
 
“I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.” -Brian Murphy
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“When you fall into a river, you are no longer an angler, you are a swimmer.” -Author Unknown
 
“One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one’s fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one’s fishing companions.” -John Ashley-Cooper
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“All men are equal before fish.” -Herbert Hoover

​“Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will stop bothering you.” -Author Unknown

Fishin’
 
S’pose the fish don’t bite at fust,
     What be yew goin’ tur dew?
Chuck down yewr pole, throw out yewr bait
     An’ say yewr fishin’s threw?
Uv course yew hain’t; yew’re goin’ tur fish,
     An’ fish, an’ fish, an’ wait
Until yew’ve ketched yewr baskit full,
     An’ used up all yewr bait.
 
S’pose success don’t come at fust,
     What be yew goin’ tur dew?
Throw up the sponge an’ kick yewrself,
     An’ go tur feelin’ blew?
Uv course yew hain’t; yew’re goin’ tur fish,
     An’ bait, an’ bait agin’;
Bimeby success will bite yewr hook,
     An’ yew will pull him in.
 
By Harry N. Dascomb
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​Fishing and Anglers Quiz
- What other creatures besides fishes can be caught with a rod and reel?
- How are freshly caught fishes cleaned and prepared before cooking?
- How much does a fishing license cost in your area?
 
“An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “Irish News”
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Jethro: When fish are catching people, what do they call it?
Garth: Peopling.
 
The Good Lord Sends the Fishing
 
Sitting still and wishing
     Made no person great;
The good Lord sends the fishing,
     But you must dig the bait.
 
By Author Unknown
 
Darby: What do you call a fish without an eye?
Anna: A fsh.
 
“It is not a fish until it is on the bank.” -Author Unknown: British saying
 
Jamie: Where do fishermen go to get their hair cut?
Allyson: At the bobber shop.
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“Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat fish the rest of his life. Teach a fish to learn, and soon the fish will all be running around in schools!” -Author Unknown
 
“Plenty of fish in the sea . . . just none where you happen to be fishing.” -Author Unknown
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Question: How do anglers get in contact with fish?
Answer: They drop them a line.
 
That Fish Was Just Too Fussy
 
I said to a fish in a lake
“I have worms, peas, and chocolate cake.
     Would you care for a bite?”
     Said the fish, “I just might,
But I think it would be a mistake.”
 
By John Ciardi
 
“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” -John Buchan
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Herby: If fish lived on land, in which country would they live?
Curbie: Finland!
 
Mirabel: Why was the astronomer standing beside a lake in the middle of the night?
Isabelle: Fishing on a star.
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“So long, and thanks for all the fish.” -Douglas Adams
 
Could you catch fish, and sell them to luckless anglers who caught nothing, or to local restaurants, hotels, and grocers?
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“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” -Author Unknown
 
“Give a lazy person a fish and he will eat it. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and sleep all day.” -Author Unknown
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A man went ice fishing. He took out an ice pick and began to hack away. He heard a voice from above say, “There are no fish there.” He went to another spot and started to pick away. Again came the voice: “There are no fish there, either.” He tried a third spot. Once more he heard the voice from above - “Nope. Not there, either.” Finally, the man grew a little nervous, so he looked up and asked, “Are you God?” The voice from above boomed, “No, I’m the arena manager.”
 
“When I’m tired and can’t sleep, I count fish instead of sheep.” -Author Unknown
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Overheard: Some fishing jokes are really not all that finny.
 
“There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there’s always a new place, always a new horizon.” -Jack Nicklaus
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We are MFOL! . . . Now we had all better get to bed early so we can get up early to get the best fishing spot early tomorrow morning to catch the food called fish . . .

Farms And Farming

In winter’s chill,
     Or summer’s heat,
Farmers and ranchers work,
     So the world can eat.
-Author Unknown
 
Marvin: Why are barns so noisy?
Martin: All the cows have horns.
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“The farmer is the only man in our economy who can turn a barren field into a fertile oasis with nothing but hard work and determination.” -Robert G. Ingersoll (Robert Green ‘Bob’ Ingersoll (1833 - 1899))
 
Question: How does a farmer count cows?
Answer: With a cow-culator.
 
“The only thing that endures over time is the ‘Law of the Farm.’ You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.” -Stephen R. Covey (Stephen Richards Covey (1932 - 2012))

The Farmer
 
Sun is coming up
     Farmer’s out the door,
He will go to milk the cows,
     And start his daily chores.
 
Sun is going down
     Horse is in the stable,
All the fields are planted now,
     Supper’s on the table.
 
By Author Unknown
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​“My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” -Brenda Schoepp
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Farms And Farming Facts
- Most of the plants and animals on farms are ‘domesticated’ rather than wild or natural.
- Domesticated plants and animals are ones that have been developed with specific traits in mind, such as rapid growth, hardiness, and high yield.
- Many different types of farms exist, including family farms, corporate farms, pig farms, fish farms, dairy farms . . . and for those with limited space, ant farms.
What farms and farming facts do you know?
 
Joey: How do you spell farm?
Jody: ‘E-I-E-I-O’!
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“And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Gulliver’s Travels” (1726), ‘Voyage to Brobdingnag,’ Chapter 6

A man owned a small farm. The Wage and Hour Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent a social security agent to interview him. “You just give me a list of your employees and tell me how much you pay them.” “All right,” said the farmer. “I have a hired man. Been with me for three years. I pay him $400 a week, plus room and board. I have a cook. She’s been here six months. She gets $300 a week plus room and board.” “Anybody else?” asked the agent as he scribbled on a note pad. “Yeah,” the farmer said. “There’s a half-wit here. Works about eighteen hours a day. I pay him five dollars a week and give him a day off once every ten years.” “Aha!” the agent roared. “I want to talk to that man!” “You’re talkin’ to him now,” said the farmer.
 
“Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. Man may be civilized, in some degree, without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbors. But without the cultivation of the earth, he is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up the chase, and fixes himself in some place and seeks a living from the earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” -Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852): “On the Agriculture of England” (13 January 1840), page 457
 
Pearl: What runs around a farm without moving?
Earl: A fence.
 
Young man, age 26, with 350 acres of farmland, would like to meet charming, intelligent young lady with tractor. Please send picture of tractor.
 
Stuff An Experienced Farmer Knows
- After a bad harvest, sow again.
- Fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong.
- Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
- An agitated bumblebee is considerably faster than a tractor.
- Rise before the Sun and go to bed when the chickens do.
- Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
- There is talking and there is doing, and it isn’t the talking that gets the work done.
- Don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.
- Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
What can you add to this list?
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“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
After running over a rooster that had been crossing the road, a motorist stopped his car at a nearby farmhouse to find the chicken’s owner. Seeing the farmer, the motorist rushed over to him and said, “I’m very, very sorry. I’ve just run over your rooster, but I want you to know that I’m prepared to replace him.” “Alright,” said the farmer, “let’s hear you crow.”
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“When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighborhood - a flourishing country should show its prosperity.” -Marcus Porcius Cato (also known as Cato the Elder (233 B.C.E. - 148 B.C.E.)): “De Agri Cultura” (about 160 B.C.E.), ‘Of buying a farm’
 
Wally: Why did the farmer not become upset with his wife when she traded their prize milk-cow for a book of poetry?
Walter: Because he had vowed to love her for butter or for verse.
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“Farming isn’t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue.” -Jeff Koehler
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An efficient farmer can make use of every part of a pig, even the ears, which can become chew toys for dogs and the feet, which can become pickled pigs’ feet - in fact, a farmer can make good use of every part of a pig - except for the squeal.
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“It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.” -Peter Maurin
 
“If one plants in the Springtime, one will harvest in the Fall.” -Author Unknown

​Farm Animal Roll Call
 
Baa-baa black sheep, have you any wool?
     Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for your sweater, and one for your rug . . .
     One for your blanket that keeps you warm and snug.
 
Cluck-cluck red hen, have you any eggs?
     Yes sir, yes sir, as many as your legs.
One for your breakfast, and one for your lunch.
     Come back tomorrow; I’ll have another bunch.
 
Moo-moo brown cow, have you milk for me?
     Yes sir, yes sir, tasty as can be.
Churn it into butter or make it into cheese.
     Freeze it into ice cream or drink it if you please.
 
Buzz-buzz busy bee, is your honey sweet?
     Yes sir, yes sir, sweet enough to eat.
Honey on your muffin and honey on your cake.
     Honey by the spoonful as much as I can make.
 
By Author Unknown

A farmer who was much troubled by trespassers during the nutting season consulted his botanical friend. The botanist furnished him with the technical name of the hazelnut, and the farmer placed the following notice at conspicuous points: Trespassers Take Warning! All Persons Entering This Wood Do So At Their Own Risk, For Although Common Snakes Are Not Found, The Corylus Avellana Abounds Everywhere, And Never Gives Warning Of Its Presence. The place was undisturbed after that, and the farmer gathered his crops of hazelnuts in peace.
 
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from a cornfield.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969))
 
“And so we plow along, as the fly said to the ox.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

All Around The Barnyard
 
All around the barnyard
     The animals are fast asleep.
Sleeping cows and horses,
     Sleeping pigs and sheep.
 
Here comes the cocky rooster,
     To sound his daily alarm.
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!
     Wake up, sleepy farm!”
 
By Author Unknown
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“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” -David Bly
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Marty: Why did the farmer plough his field with a steamroller?
Martha: Because he wanted to grow mashed potatoes.
 
“It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on a farm sets a person back at least a week.” -Jane Hamilton: “A Map of the World” (1994), Chapter Eleven
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Cybil: What is the best kind of beans to raise on a farm?
Tyrone: Jellybeans!
 
Barry: If a farmer raises wheat in dry weather, what does he raise in wet weather?
Manny: An umbrella.
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“What do you raise on this farm?” the big-city lawyer asked. “Cotton, corn, lima beans, and other things,” the farmer answered. “It must keep you pretty busy. What time do you go to work in the morning?” asked the lawyer. “I don’t go to work,” the farmer said. “I wake up surrounded by it.”
 
Chuck: What is green and yellow, ploughs fields, harvests corn, and pulls a trailer load of hay?
Hank: A John Deere tractor!

​Pinky: What has five fingers and drives a tractor?
Thumb: A farm hand.
 
To The Farm!
 
Horses, donkeys, cows that moo,
     Chickens, kittens, piglets too,
Fish that swim down in the pond,
     Ducklings quacking all day long.
All these animals you can see
     If you go to the farm with me!
 
By Author Unknown
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​We’re Going To The Farm
 
We’re going to the farm . . .
 
We’ll see the chickens and the ducks,
     We’ll hear the quacks and all the clucks!
 
We’ll ride a big tractor, and feed a tall horse,
     But the best will be the goats, of course!!!
 
By Hilary Martin

​“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.” -Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900)
 
A farmer’s son was returning home from the chicken show at the county fair, with a crate of chickens his father had entrusted to him, when all of a sudden the crate fell off the cart and broke open. Chickens scurried off in all different directions, but the determined boy walked through the neighborhood, scooping up the wayward birds and returning them to the crate. Hoping he had found them all, the boy returned home, expecting the worst. “Pa, the chickens got loose,” the boy confessed sadly, “but I managed to find all twelve of them.” “Well, you did real well, son,” the farmer beamed. “You left with seven.”
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A farmer was counting his cows when they were all out grazing in the field. He counted 196, but when he ‘rounded them up,’ he had 200.
 
The Giving Farm
 
Hens give eggs.
     Pigs give ham.
Cows give milk.
     Strawberries give jam.
Bees give honey.
     Goats give cheese.
Farms give food,
     I’d like some, please.
 
By Vicki Witcher
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“Agriculture is the earliest and most honorable of arts.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

“Farmers rank above politicians and lawyers for the contributions made to people’s lives and nations’ existences.” -Author Unknown
 
A magical tractor was driving down the road - and it turned into a field!
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“My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment . . . There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.” -Burton Hillis (pseudonym of William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))
 
We plough the fields and scatter
     The good seeds on the land,
But it is fed and watered
     By God’s almighty hand.
-Jane Montgomery Campbell (1817 - 1878): “We Plough the Fields, and Scatter” (1861) hymn
 
“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” -Arthur Keith
 
“The farmers are the founders of civilization.” -Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852) 
 
Jacob: Why was the farmer surprised when he found cucumbers growing out of his ears?
Jake: Because he had planted carrots.
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“Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“He who works his land will have abundant food.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 12, verse 11
 
“Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 20, verse 4
 
“No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind.” -George E. Woodbury (George Edward Woodbury (1855 - 1930))
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Gilbert: What does a farmer grow if he works very hard?
Herbert: Tired.
 
“You must plow with such Oxen as you have.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 5968
 
“When the Sun shineth*, make hay.” -John Heywood (1497 - 1580): “A Dialogue of Proverbs” (1546)
*shineth: archaic form of ‘shines.’
 
“It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.” -Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato (233 B.C.E. - 148 B.C.E.))
 
“We must plant the sea and herd its animals . . . using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.” -Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves-Cousteau (1910 - 1997)): interview (17 July 1971), as quoted in Elizabeth Brubaker et al.: “Breath of Fresh Air” (2008), page 180

​Farmyard
 
Little hen
     feathered and red
          pecking round for scraps of bread.
 
Little goat
     fierce and white
          thinks his rope is much too tight.
 
Little calf
     soft and shy
          peeking out with one brown eye.
 
Little cat
     black and lean
          crouching so he won’t be seen.
 
Little pig
     muddy and stout
          trying hard to wriggle out.
 
By Gail Gregory
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Math Problem: If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in another field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
Solution: One, because if the farmer combines all of the separate haystacks, they all become one big haystack.
 
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
     Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
     Or plants a tree, is more than all.
-John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892): “A Song of Harvest” (1858)
 
“To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.” -John Connell
 
We are MFOL! . . . well, the farmers are plain tuckered out from all this silliness. It is time to hit the sack so we can be up before the Sun to milk the chickens and see if the cows laid any eggs. Oink! Moo! Baa! Goodnight, all!

Socks And Stockings

​“Consistently losing socks in the clothes washer and dryer while also finding coins in the machines leads one to the inevitable conclusion that somewhere in the works lurks a Sock Fairy.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Said Dorothy Hughes to Helen Hocking
 
Said Dorothy Hughes to Helen Hocking,
     “I can’t for the life of me get on this stocking!”
“Would it help if you first removed your shoes?”
     Said Helen Hocking to Dorothy Hughes.
 
By William Jay Smith (1918 - 2015)
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Donald: What a strange pair of socks you’re wearing; one sock is green and the other sock is blue.
Donna: Yes, they’re strange, and to add to the strangeness of it all, I have a second pair just like them back at home.
 
Patient: What do you have if your head is hot, one foot is cold, and you see spots before your eyes?
Doctor: You have a polka-dotted sock over your head.
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“I got up one morning and couldn’t find my socks, so I called Information. She said, “Hello, Information.” I said, “I can’t find my socks.” She said, “They’re behind the couch.” And they were!” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
Do you have a sock drawer, or do you simply stuff your socks into any available and otherwise unused space? Here’s a great way to store clean socks: Simply stuff socks into shoes.
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Common Complaints from Socks
- There is too much static cling in the clothes dryer.
- It’s boring in the sock drawer.
- You never take us to any of the places other socks get to go to.
- It’s cramped and stuffy inside shoes.
- It’s always work, work, work - and the only fun we ever have is at Christmastime!
- The sock with the hole in it is always getting all the attention.
What else might socks have to complain about?
 
David: What do you call people who sleep in their socks?
Goliath: Tiny.
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Have you ever slid across a freshly waxed floor in just your socks? This article on www.MakeFunOfLife.net has been brought to you by our sponsor, Jimmy Wigginbacher’s Super-Slippery-Slidey Socks For Sliding Across Slippery Freshly Waxed Floors. Ask for them by name at your local retailer, and really make an entrance the next time you show up somewhere!
 
Question: What do sock puppets eat?
Answer: Finger foods.
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“True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980))
 
“I could always use more socks.” -Author Unknown
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“Socks don’t grow on trees, you know.” -Author Unknown: fatherly wisdom

​Tall tale: The people of Texas are known for wearing the world’s biggest socks, sometimes so big that, when worn, only the person’s head from the eyes up is visible. They then top this off with a ten-gallon hat.
 
“Happiness is . . . finding a missing sock.” -Author Unknown
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Jackie: Why was the yam wearing socks?
Jillian: To keep her pota-toes warm.

Where Do Missing Socks Go?
 
In this critical piece of investigative reporting, we will explore a serious issue: Where do missing socks go? Can they find their way home?
 
It has happened to everyone. You do a load of laundry. You wash and then dry. When you go to fold the laundry, you no longer have a pair of socks. You just have one lonesome sock. Where did its partner go? You look everywhere. You retrace your steps. You go back to the washer, back to the dryer, scope out the floors, look in the laundry basket - but no sock. Where did it go?
 
This can be a desperate situation. Studies have shown that if the missing sock does not reappear within the first 31 hours, your chances of finding that sock decrease by 90 percent. Okay, we just made that up, but whatever. You probably are not going to find that sock. Let us attempt to solve this mystery.
 
The first 24 hours are critical. The best strategy in a crisis situation such as this one is to think like a sock. Imagine to yourself, “If I were a sock, where would I go?” Would you go behind the dryer, or would you get stuck in the sleeve of a sweatshirt? Maybe. But what if your sock is a rebel? Maybe your sock was tired of being less important than other clothes. Maybe your sock had bigger dreams. Perhaps the other socks in the drawer were hampering that sock’s personal development. Maybe your missing sock had an opportunity to leave and took that opportunity!
 
You must consider the possibility that your sock is now living the good life elsewhere. Yes, your sock is famous now. Your sock is part of the local sock puppet theater! It happens all the time. Your renegade sock was tired of being confined to the sock drawer or being worn on your foot. Would you want to do that? Imagine being worn on a foot all day! Imagine being forced into uncomfortable shoes all the time! What kind of life is that? Can you blame your beloved sock for leaving you and the other socks behind? Of course not! That sock is living a dream now!
 
The bottom line is, if you do not find that sock within the short window of time, your chances are slim to none that you are bringing it back. Once that sock has a taste of freedom, it is impossible to make that sock return to live such a humiliating and boring existence.
 
Other theories abound, of course. Not everyone buys into the rebel sock theory. Yes, there are always doubters when an incredible new idea emerges. Your friends, family, and neighbors will probably tell you not to give up. They will tell you encouraging phrases like, “Maybe that sock ended up wrapped in a set of sheets in the back of your linen closet. Maybe that sock is under the dryer. Maybe your pet grabbed the sock out of the basket and is using it as a chew toy.” Then there is that line from your one odd uncle who keeps trying to be helpful or funny but hasn’t yet mastered the concept of empathy or of humor: “Maybe your sock ran away with the spoon.” The list can go on and on.
 
On 9 May of each year, we pause and reflect, as we observe Lost Sock Day, in honor of all the socks that have gone missing, and all the socks that have lost a sock buddy. Where, oh where did our little sock go? Will the world ever know how we miss our missing sock so?
 
By Author Unknown
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​“When a sock has a hole in it, Sock Fairy, who lives in a secret compartment inside Clothes Dryer, absconds with the sock and leaves a penny, paper clip, or other small gift in exchange at some random place, such as on a sidewalk, for the missing-sock person to find. However, sometimes Sock Fairy will not wait for a sock to develop a hole in it, especially if a sock is just too wonderful to pass up, by Sock Fairy standards.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “If You Believe in Fairy Tales”
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Where Do Missing Socks Go?
- The Island of Lost Socks
- They make their way through the drains in washing machines and eventually end up in the cold seas near the Earth’s poles, where the fish wear them as warm, fun, and sometimes colorful sweaters.
- Planet of the Socks
- They enlist in the Sock Secret Service and go deep undercover in the laundry pile.
- Traveling Sock Puppet Theater
Where do you suspect missing socks go?
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Chadwick: I never have to worry about having matching socks on my feet.
Marguette: How do you manage that?
Chadwick: I do not own any matching socks - not one single pair!
 
Jeff: Why do golfers wear two pairs of socks?
Fred: In case they get a hole in one!
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“Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, someone can be heard thinking aloud, ‘Where do all these unmatched single socks keep coming from?’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
Dexter: Why should you buy socks with holes in them?
Baxter: It’s the only way you can get your feet into them.
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“His socks compelled one’s attention without losing one’s respect.” -H. H. Munro (Hector Hugh Munro, also known by the pseudonym Saki (1870 - 1916))

​Bret: Why was the elephant walking around in his socks?
Bert: Because he couldn’t find his shoes!
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Maribel: What did the sock say to the foot?
Clarabelle: “You’re putting me on.”
 
A ‘sock hop’ is an informal dance event for teenagers, usually held at a school, in which hard-soled shoes are removed to protect the floor from damage.
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Kevin: What kind of socks do pirates wear?
Vincent: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgyle!
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This article on MFOL! is brought to you by one of our many sponsors, Larry’s Frozen Socks . . . Find them in your local grocer’s freezer isle next to the tubs of frozen garlic mashed potatoes . . . put them on to cool and sooth your tired, achy, overworked feet - but first, take them home.
 
“A man is about thirty-eight before he stockpiles enough socks to be able to get one matching pair.” -Merrily Harpur
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What is the difference between socks and stockings? Socks are shorter, typically only covering the foot, ankle, and calf, while stockings cover the entire leg, sometimes all the way from the foot to the waist. Socks are made of thicker, opaque material such as a heavy knitted fabric, while stockings can be made of thin, sheer, semi-opaque, or opaque material. Now that we have that out of the way . . .
 
Mac raised his hand. “Once I could only find one of my socks,” he said. “Man, I looked everywhere for it! Under the bed, in the bathroom. You’ll never guess where I finally found it.”
“In the refrigerator,” said Bob.
Mac’s mouth dropped open. “How’d you know?”
Bob shrugged. “Where else?”
-Louis Sachar: “Wayside School Is Falling Down” (22 March 1989)
 
Emmaline: What do you call a rich sock maker?
Evangeline: Sock-cessful.
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Alternative Uses For Socks And Stockings
- Emergency mittens for cold days.
- Hang them by the chimney in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon will be there.
- Roll socks up into balls and use for juggling practice.
- Slip extra shoes inside baggy old socks when traveling.
- Make sock puppets.
- Use socks to store small valuables, such as gemstones, coins from around the world, or individually-wrapped butterscotch candies.
- Walk, march, or slide - but don’t run - around in clean socks on a dirty floor to try to clean it.
- Sew or glue soles to socks to make sock-shoes.
- Wear socks or stockings between your feet and your shoes.
- Get your entire village together to bring their socks to a single location so that all of you can make the world’s biggest pile of socks and become famous for achieving a new world record.
Can you think of other uses for socks?
 
“My socks are like snowflakes, no two are alike.” -Graham Parker (Graham Thomas Parker (born 1950))
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What are loud socks? ‘Loud socks’ are socks, and sometimes stockings, that are noticeable for their bright colors, absurd patterns, and occasionally, even words or pictures. Loud socks are usually not worn in situations in which one would want to be taken seriously, such as when applying for a home or business loan, shopping for an automobile, or graduating - unless one is graduating from clown college!
 
Jasmine: Why did the clown have his hands over his ears?
Carmine: Because he was wearing loud socks!
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Justina: How can a sock be empty but still have something in it?
Paulina: When it has a hole in it.
 
Possible New Sock Holidays
- Be Kind To Socks Day
- Free Pair Of Socks Day
- Matching Socks Day
- Sock Appreciation Day
- Take Your Socks For A Walk Day
- Thank A Sock Day
Can you think of more new sock holidays?
 
Today is International Wash Your Socks Day . . . well, not really . . . but what if it was?
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“You have reached the Missing Socks Detective Agency. Jenson speaking. How may I help you?” “The Sock Burglar took my sock! I was awakened in the night by the rustling of tiny wings, and there was the Sock Burglar, flying out my open window with it!” “Relax and rest assured we’ll be right over and on the case. Right now, let’s discuss fees. We charge two desk lamps plus a 3-meter extension cord and 3 ham-and-cheese sandwiches with mustard and pickles as a retainer, and an additional 400 green stamps a day until the case is solved. Can you afford us?” “Yes, yes, I’ve got to have my missing sock returned to me!”
 
Here is a great title for a song: Owner of a Missing Sock. Now we just need you to write the lyrics and set them to music.
 
Joey: What did one sock say to the other sock?
Chloe: “Hi, nice toe meet you.”
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“Always wear clean socks when you go out, just in case you should get run over by a truck.” -Author Unknown: motherly advice
 
Amberly: What kind of socks do gardeners wear?
Kimberly: Garden hose.
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The words ‘sock’ is derived from the Old English word ‘socc,’ meaning ‘light slipper.’
 
Bobby socks: Socks that belong to Bobby; not to be confused with Susie socks.
 
Give me the gift of a grip top sock,
A drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock,
And all the better if it has spots - say . . .
Sam’s Sock Shop stocks short spotted socks!
-Author Unknown
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“One can never have enough socks.” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (26 June 1997), words of fictional character Albus Dumbledore (Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore)
 
We are MFOL! . . . keep your wits about you and hang on to your socks . . . as heedless of all warnings and common sense we rush into what’s next . . .

Leadership And Leading

​“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848): as attributed in Pat Williams (born 1940): “The Paradox of Power” (2002)
 
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” -Dwight Eisenhower (Dwight David ’Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969))
 
“It is wonderful when the people believe in their leader: but it is more wonderful when the leader believes in the people.” -Author Unknown
 
“Leaders who aid others in growing are certain to experience growth in themselves.” -Author Unknown
 
“The best way to become a leader is to start acting like one.” -J. D. Cameron
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“A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.” -Joe DiMaggio (Joseph Paul DiMaggio (born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio (1914 - 1999)))
 
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.” -Abraham Lincoln (Abraham ‘Abe’ Lincoln (1809 - 1865))
 
“The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.” -Fred A. Manske, Junior (born 1939)
 
“By the time you have lined up the third person for something, the first two will have wandered off somewhere.” -Author Unknown
 
“The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.” -Joe D. Batten (born 1925)
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“What makes a leader - intelligence, integrity, imagination, skill: in brief, statecraft? Not at all. It is the fact that the man has a following.” -Gerald W. Johnson
 
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“We can’t make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))
 
“We are all leaders - whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing - either leading them to good - or away from good.” -Leif Erikson (about C.E. 970 - about C.E. 1020)
 
“It’s lonely at the top, but you eat better.” -Author Unknown
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LEADERS
 
Lend a helping hand
Encourage
Always listen
Do the right thing
Exceed expectations
Respect others
Set an example
 
By Author Unknown: acrostic

“The only real training for leadership is leadership.” -Anthony Jay
 
“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader
 
“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” -Jack Welch (John Francis ‘Jack’ Welch, Junior (born 1935))
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“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am - and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.” -Henry J. Kaiser (Henry John Kaiser (1882 - 1967))
 
“Many people who lack the know-how to build better lives for themselves just need someone to give them a show-how . . . Could that someone be you?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” -John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
 
“When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.” -Jim Fiebig (1956 - 2016)
 
“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.” -Geri Weitzman
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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“We must recognize the value of self-led people, who will not be led by others and who will not be leaders, either. They are individuals who are not stubborn, and not eccentric, but simply possess a preference for being independent and self-reliant. They are capable of recognizing and admiring the traits they possess in others, and often can collaborate most effectively with those like themselves.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.” -Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
 
“A true leader doesn’t create separation. A true leader brings people together.” -Author Unknown
 
“Effective leaders make their followers feel good about themselves and their work.” -Author Unknown
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“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992)): as attributed in Leslie Pockell and Adrienne Avila, editors: “The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time” (23 November 2004)
 
“The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
 
“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.” -Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923): “The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy” (1961)
 
“A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you are going to help people reach their potential, they need to be recognized and rewarded. Everyone needs that.” -Jacqueline Norcel
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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919): as quoted in Neal Whitten: “Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success” (1995), page 63
 
“Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, ‘I’ll get a bigger job, then I’ll learn how to be a leader. But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn’t a position, it’s a process.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.” -Claude Taylor
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​“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea . . .” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944)) at https://www.antoinedesaintexupery.com/
 
“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” -Author Unknown
 
“The higher men climb, the longer their working day. There are no office hours for leaders.” -James Gibbons (1834 - 1921)
 
“The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision.” -Theodore Hesburgh (Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1917 - 2015))
 
“Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.” -Author Unknown
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“Leadership: Understanding that blaming others will not generate trust and will not inspire people to join forces to create progress.” -Author Unknown
 
“A leader leads by example, not by force.” -Sun Tzu (possibly 544 B.C.E. - possibly 496 B.C.E.)
 
“The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.” -Author Unknown
 
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, and a little less than his share of the credit.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
 
“One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
 
“People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.” -C. Gene Wilkes (born 1953)
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“Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.” -Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962): “Reflections” (1974), number 106
 
“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” -Vince Lombardi (Vincent Thomas ‘Vince’ Lombardi (1913 - 1970))
 
“Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead.” -Gerald Faust
 
“The qualities of leadership are not something you attain overnight.” -Betty McDonald: “Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle” (1957)
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“There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.” -William F. Halsey (William Frederick ‘Bull’ Halsey, Junior (1882 - 1959)): as quoted in Thomas A. Bailey: “Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George Washington to the Present” (1966)
 
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” -Thomas J. Watson (Thomas John Watson, Senior (1874 - 1956))
 
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” -Author Unknown

​“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.” -William Penn (1644 - 1718)
 
“Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing sometimes dramatically.” -Philip Crosby
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“The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.” -Amos Parrish
 
“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.” -Henry Miller (Henry Valentine Miller (1891 - 1980)): “The Wisdom of the Heart” (1941)
 
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))
 
“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.” -Dean Rusk (1909 - 1994)
 
“Leadership is action, not position.” -Samuel Gompers (1850 - 1924)
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“You can’t lead a cavalry if you think that you look funny riding a horse.” -John Peers
 
“The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
 
“A leader leads by example whether he intends to or not.” -Author Unknown
 
“Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.” -Bergen Evans (Bergen Baldwin Evans (1904 - 1978))
 
“If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you’re leading the pack.” -Author Unknown
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“A leader is an ordinary person with extraordinary determination.” -Author Unknown
 
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” -Warren G. Bennis
 
“True leadership would convince people, rather than force them.” -David C. Kifer
 
“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” -Robert Jarvik
 
“There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers - wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO.” -Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee: “Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence” (2002), pages xiii and xiv
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“There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” -Alexandre Ledru-Rollin (Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807 - 1874)) (15 May 1848): as quoted by Eugène de Mirecourt: “Histoire Contemporaine, No. 79” (1857)
 
“One man with courage makes a majority.” -Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845): as attributed in the “Washington Post” (7 February 1964) newspaper
 
“You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.” -Gene Mauch (Gene William Mauch (1925 - 2005))
 
“A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.” -James Callaghan (Leonard James ‘Jim’ Callaghan (1912 - 2005)): as quoted in “The Harvest Business Review” (1 November 1986)
 
“As soon as a certain number of living beings are gathered together, whether they be animals or men, they place themselves instinctively under the authority of a chief.” -Gustave Le Bon (Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931)): “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” (1895)
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“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Politics,” as translated by Benjamin Jowett
 
“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)
 
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” -Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974): ‘Roosevelt Has Gone’ published in “The New York Herald Tribune” (14 April 1945) newspaper

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“When [Derek the mouse] went out briefly into the world, he noted that his friends treated him with more respect, perhaps because he was behaving in a more respect-commanding way.” -William Steig (1907 - 2003): “The Real Thief” (15 July 1973)
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner (John William Gardner (1912 - 2002))
 
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader (born 1934)
 
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” -John C. Maxwell (John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947)) at https://www.maxwellleadership.com/
 
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficent purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.” -Haile Selassie I (born Ras Tafari Makonnen (1892 - 1975)): ‘Speech on Leadership’ published in “Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions” (May 1957 - December 1959) (1960), page 138
 
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972): “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
 
“Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.” -Marla Jones
 
“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead, I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode: “My Little Book of Prayer” (1905), page 11
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“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.” -Tacitus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 120)
 
Overheard: All those who are opposed to the plan I am about to propose will reply by saying, “I resign.”
 
“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.” -Robert E. Lee (Robert Edward Lee (1807 - 1870)): in a comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in John William Jones: “Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee” (1874), page 170
 
“All leaders lead by example . . . whether they intend to or not.” -Author Unknown
 
“The best way to gain and hold the loyalty of your personnel is to show interest in them and care for them, by your words and actions, in everything you do.” -Author Unknown: “Secrets of Effective Leadership”
 
“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.” -George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
 
“‘Safety first’ has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.” -Herbert N. Casson: as quoted in: “The Office Economist” (1935), Volume 17 - 21, page 145
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“Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.” -Edward Hennessy
 
“The prize of the general is not a bigger tent but command.” -Oliver Wendel Holmes, Junior (1841 - 1935)
 
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” -Margaret Wheatley: as quoted in Steve Chandler: “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself” (2004), page 123
 
“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” -Sheryl Sandberg
 
“Example is leadership.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
 
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.” -Dwight Eisenhower (Dwight David ’Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969))
 
“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.” -Marshall Goldsmith: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” (2010), page 72
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“You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. Trust is a great force multiplier.” -Tom Ridge
 
“The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” -Peter F. Drucker (Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 - 2005))
 
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” -Harvey S. Firestone
 
We are MFOL! . . . leading the way to . . . ummm . . . we’ll get back to you on that one . . . in the meantime, please enjoy what is coming next . . .

Loners And Singles

“We are a select group, without personal obligation, social encumbrance, or any socks that match.” -P. J. O’Rourke (Patrick Jake O’Rourke (born 1947)): “The Bachelor Home Companion” (1987)
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“Maybe ‘loner’ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.” -George Best (1946 - 2005)
 
Overheard: I am not single - I’m between relationships . . . I am not single - I am romantically challenged. There was a time when people called single men bachelors and single women spinsters or old maids. Nowadays, you may call an unmarried adult ‘unattached’ - but you may not call them ‘incomplete’ because apparently, they really do not appreciate that!
 
“Single: A partial-person.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“The trouble with living alone is that it’s always your turn to do the dishes.” -Author Unknown
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“Hermits United. We meet up every ten years and swap stories about caves. It’s good fun . . . for a hermit.” -Author Unknown: “Doctor Who”
 
“People assume I’m a loner by choice. They think I’m antisocial, when the truth is I’m terrified of people because I’m kind and sensitive and people tend to walk all over me.” -Author Unknown
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Lone Dog
 
I’m a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
     I’m a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I’m a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
     I love to sit and bay the Moon, to keep fat souls from sleep.

I’ll never be a lap dog, licking dirty feet,
     A sleek dog, a meek dog, cringing for my meat,
Not for me the fireside, the well-filled plate, 
     But shut door, and sharp stone, and cuff and kick, and hate.

Not for me the other dogs, running by my side,
     Some have run a short while, but none of them would bide.
O mine is still the lone trail, the hard trail, the best,
     Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest!
 
By Irene Rutherford Mcleod (1891 - 1968)
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​“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 4, verses 9 and 10
 
An old guy who had spent his whole life as a recluse in the desert went to visit a friend. He had never seen a train in his life, but on his way, he happened upon a railroad track. Standing alongside the track, wondering what it was, he heard a loud whistle. Looking around, he saw a train bearing down on him like something out of the Apocalypse. The train just nudged him a glancing blow, but it still flipped him into a ravine, where his head smacked up against a rock and knocked him unconscious. A while later he got up, tenderly felt the bump on his head, shrugged off the dust, and then continued on to his friend’s house, the whole time wondering what that big thing was that had nearly killed him. His friend greeted him, put on a kettle for tea, and they started swapping old stories. A few minutes later, the teakettle started whistling like crazy on the stove and the hermit jumped up in a panic, grabbed a chair, and pounded the whistling teakettle flatter than a pancake. Amazed, his friend asked, “What in the world did you do that for?” The hermit said, “Those things are dangerous. You have to get rid them when they’re small!”
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A single guy went into a restaurant for a Christmas breakfast while visiting his home town for the holidays. After looking over the menu he said, “I’ll just have the Eggs Benedict.” His order came a while later and it was served on a big, shiny hubcap. He asked the waiter, “What’s with the hubcap?” The waiter sang out, “There’s no plate like chrome for the hollandaise!”
 
Far in a wild, unknown to public view,
     From youth to age a reverend hermit grew;
The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell,
     His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well,
Remote from man, with God he pass’d the days;
     Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
-Thomas Parnell (1679 - 1718): “The Hermit”
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Lone wolf: A wolf that is not in a pack of wolves. When hunting alone, a wolf will catch small animals such as mice, squirrels, hares, chipmunks, raccoons, or rabbits. However, a wolf pack, or a group of wolves, can hunt large animals including deer, moose, caribou, and yaks.

​“Singles are people who have convinced themselves that mono, black-and-white, 32-gigabytes is good enough for them, while married people live in high-fidelity stereo, full-color, 128-gigabytes.” -Author Unknown
 
If you are single and you have been wondering about married life, we have a page for you.
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“A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756 - 1791))
 
“Now for a little humor for people who are single this holiday season: ‘I don’t live alone . . . I live with my imagination . . . and we have a lot of fun together . . .’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.” -Willa Sibert Cather (born Wilella Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947)): “Shadows on the Rock” (1931), Book III, Chapter 5
 
Bumper sticker: Honk If You’re Happily Single!
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“The four food groups for singles are: fast, frozen, junk, and spoiled.” -Author Unknown
 
“Let me tell you this: If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” -Jodi Picoult (Jodi Lynn Picoult (born 1966)): “My Sister’s Keeper” (6 April 2004) novel
 
“The reason that a lot of men are bachelors is because they fail to embrace their opportunities.” -Author Unknown
 
“A hermit is a deserter from the army of humanity.” -Henry Southgate (1818 - 1888)
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Loner: A party of one; a person who knows what ‘alone in a crowd’ means.

​The Loner
 
He never hurried,
     Nor made a fuss.
Just bided his time,
     Would never rush.
 
He lived his life,
     So frugally.
Saved for rainy days,
     He’d never see.
 
There was no one,
     To share his life.
No children of his own,
     No love of a wife.
 
He had no friends,
     Neither enemies.
His self alone,
     Was his only company.
 
On his tombstone,
     When his life was spent,
Four simple words:
     He came and went.
 
By John Read (21 August 2012)

​“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.” -Will Cuppy (William Jacob ‘Will’ Cuppy (1884 - 1949))
 
“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.” -Dean Cavanagh (born 1966)
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“Hermits have no peer pressure.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
Question: Why did the single person cross the road?
Answer: To get away from the married couple that was having an argument.
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Men’s Excuses For Staying Single
- I do not have to explain why I’m wearing ‘that’ shirt with ‘those’ pants.
- I have saved $372,416.21 that would have been spent on groceries.
- I get to see what my paycheck looks like.
- I get to see what my credit cards look like.
- Bachelors do not have a mother-in-law.
- I do not have to watch sub-titled foreign films.
- I do not have a driving instructor grading me every time I go somewhere.
 
“It’s just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.” -Merrill Markoe (born 1948)
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“The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.” -Charles H. Parkhurst (Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933))
 
“If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.” -Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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“Alone, adjective: In bad company.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914))
 
“I’m a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child.” -Bill Bixby (Wilfred Bailey Everett ‘Bill’ Bixby III (1934 - 1993))
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“Please don’t make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don’t like crowds or noise.” -Steve Burns (Steven Michael Burns (born 1973))

When people live alone, they more easily succumb to the temptation to just ‘let themselves go,’ meaning that they partially or entirely stop engaging in the grooming, dressing, housekeeping, and other habits associated with being someone who is living successfully in a society with other humans.
 
“Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you’re a hermit on a mountain, you don’t have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you’ve got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.” -Miss Manners (pseudonym of Judith Martin (born 1938 as Judith Perlman))
 
“Becoming a hermit is not difficult; however, once hermit status has been achieved, reversing the process and becoming a non-hermit is much more challenging.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
Overheard: 1 Universe, 8 planets, 192 countries, 180,497 islands, 85 seas, 7 billion people - and I am still single!
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“One often overlooked advantage to being single is that a person can eat as much onions and garlic as desired, every single day, without great concern.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.” -Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005)
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Isn’t it interesting that we refer to some people as ‘singles,’ which is a plural noun? And how exactly is it that ‘loners’ also is a plural word?
 
“Sometimes it’s better to be alone because nobody can hurt you.” -Author Unknown
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The third week in September is National Singles Week in the United States of America.
 
Question: What holiday do single people celebrate every day?
Answer: Independence Day!
 
“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 - 1973)): “To My Daughters, With Love” (1967), ‘To You on Your First Birthday’
 
“I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.” -Clea Duvall (Clea Helen D’Etienne DuVall (born 1977))
 
When people live alone, they tend to develop certain idiosyncrasies, as for example, adopting dozens of stray animals, or filling an entire room with a collection of empty cardboard boxes. Do not be dismayed, because these are instinctual behaviors, as you try to fill in the ‘gaps’ in your life, which other people typically fill with other people. However, you will need to examine your life if you begin holding parties with your stray animals at which you are the only human in attendance, or you go around the neighborhood at odd hours trying to find more empty cardboard boxes to complete your collection - these behaviors could be ‘cries for help.’ You might want to consider attending the weekly singles group meeting at a church or joining several clubs - just not the clubs where they dress up as vampires and some of the club members seriously believe that they are actual vampires (it should be noted that vampires are creations wholly of human imagination). We hope to see you at this week’s singles group meeting so that we can tell you all about our modest 30,488-piece pinecone collection - and we’ve started collecting acorns, too!
 
“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am, so I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.” -Steven Aitchison (born 1968) at https://www.guidedmind.com/
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“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” -Alan Ashley (Alan Ashley-Pitt, pseudonym of Francis Phillip Wernig (born 1947)): as quoted in Eda LeShan: “The Wonderful Crisis of Middle Age” (1973), page 304
 
Signs That You May Be Single
- Back in high school you were voted, ‘Most likely to grow old alone, in a big-empty house.’
- Instead of ‘Occupant,’ your junk mail is addressed to ‘Loner.’
- No woman can ever seem to make you feel as alive as you felt at the ‘TrekMania 2014’ convention.
- None of your twenty-nine cats ever likes your boyfriend.
- The makers of ‘Frozen Meals for One’ has made you their ‘Customer of the Year’ for the seventh consecutive year.
- Who has time for dating when you are building a life-size King Kong out of Legos?
- You speak Klingon, which is unfortunately not a very romantic language.
- Online, you suggest the topic, ‘Top Signs You’re Going to Spend the Rest of Your Life Single,’ mistakenly thinking that your equally-hopeless fellow social media contributors might give you some clue as to what you’re doing wrong.
- You will master the art of meeting women as soon as they make a video game about it.
- You are already in line for the next ‘Star Wars’ movie release.
 
“I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.” -Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
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“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
 
Hermit: A female hismit.
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“Something of the hermit’s temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
 
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” -Alan Watts (Alan Wilson Watts (1915 - 1973))
 
What would you say to someone who says to you, “I don’t go out because I have no friends, and I have no friends because I don’t go out.”?
 
A Hermit Named Green
 
There once was a hermit named Green
Who grew so abnormally lean,
     And flat, and compressed,
     That his back touched his chest,
And sideways he couldn’t be seen.
 
By Author Unknown
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Trevor: If I tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
Ian: No, but it does make you a crazy forest hermit!
 
We are MFOL! . . . you would think that we would know what we are doing by now . . . but no . . .

Playtime And Playing

“It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.” -Marcia Wieder
 
George knocked on the door of his friend’s house. When his friend’s mother answered he asked, “Can Albert come out to play?” “No,” said the mother, “It’s too cold.” “Well, then,” said George, “can his football come out to play?”
 
“Surely all God’s people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth” (1913), pages 186 and 187
 
“Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. The only fights worth fighting are the pillow and food varieties.” -Terri Guillemets (born 1973)
 
Before televisions, media players, home computers, the internet, cell phones, and video games, children spent most of their free time playing outside.
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“Life is more fun if you play games.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990)
 
“Playing outside makes children smarter, healthier, and happier.” -Author Unknown
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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Journals”
 
“Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that’s just for me, and I won’t worry about what I ‘should’ be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948))
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“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” -Charles Schaefer

Playing Outdoors
 
What lovely things
     Outdoors I see!
The sun, a bird,
     A great big tree!
God put them there
     For you and me!
 
By Author Unknown
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“My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is.” -Ron Olson
 
“As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses they unearth the past. As weather reporters and restaurant workers they make sense of reality; as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.” -Gretchen Owocki
 
“The highest form of research is essentially play.” -N. V. Scarfe (Neville Vincent Scarfe (1908 - 1985)
 
“The true object of all human life is play.” -G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)): “All Things Considered” (1908)
 
When Albert’s baby sister was born, his mother told him the baby would be nice to play with. After looking at it for a while, he complained, “Yes, but where are its wheels?”
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“Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.” -Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
 
“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” -Kay Redfield Jamison
 
Riddle: What does the following mean? A maximum amount of purposeful activity and a minimum amount of disport and dalliance cause Jack to become a dim-witted, stagnant dunce of the male species.
Solution: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
 
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in James Howell (1594 - 1666): “Proverbs in English, Italian, French, and Spanish” (1659)
 
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
-Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849): “Harry and Lucy Concluded” (1825)
 
“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” -John Cleese (John Marwood Cleese (born 1939)): as quoted in Dale N. LeFevre: “Best New Games” (2002), page 9
 
“Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children.” -Kenneth R. Ginsburg
 
Have you played today?
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“Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))
 
“Let them play! The more they play, the more resilient and socially adept they will become.” -Jessica Joelle Alexander
 
“Play: Instinctually guided unrestrained accelerated learning along unpredictable tangential paths leading to successful survival.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning.” -Fred Rogers (Fred McFeely Rogers (also known as Mr. Rogers (1928 - 2003))): “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom from America’s Most Beloved Neighbor,” Chapter 4
 
“Imaginative play is a key that opens the doors of intuition.” -Frances Vaughan (1935)
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“Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.” -Evan Esar (born Esar Levine (1899 - 1995)): “Esar’s Comic Dictionary” (1943)
 
“Learning to share and take turns happens during play.” -Author Unknown
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As Johnny Went A-Walking
 
As Johnny went a-walking, a-walking, a-walking
As Johnny went-a-walking one fine day
He met a little neighbor, a neighbor, a neighbor
And they began to play:
First they played at horses, horses, horses
First they played at horses
Just this way:
They played at aeroplanes, aeroplanes, aeroplanes (and so on).
Then they played at bunnies, bunnies, bunnies (and so on).
Then they played at fire engines, fire engines, fire engines (and so on).
 
By Author Unknown
 
“Work and play are an artificial pair of opposites, because the best kind of play contains an element of work, and the most productive kind of work must include something of the spirit of play.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986)): “On the Contrary” (1964), Chapter 7
 
“Play is the exultation of the possible.” -Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)
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“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable.” -Lucia Capacchione
 
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
 
Let’s play ‘airplane’! Let’s play choo-choo train! Let’s play tag - you’re it! Let’s play swamp monster! Let’s play dinosaurs! Let’s play hide-and-seek! Let’s play space aliens! Let’s play cops and robbers! Let’s play follow-the-leader! Let’s play dress-up! Let’s play store! Can you think of other games we can play? Which one is your favorite?
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“For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted, like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.” -L. R. Knost
 
“To the art of working well a civilized race would add that art of playing well.” -George Santayana (1863 - 1952): “Little Essays” (1920)
 
“All play is associated with intense thought activity and rapid intellectual growth.” -N. V. Scarfe (Neville Vincent Scarfe (1908 - 1985): ‘Play is Education’ article published in the “Childhood Education” (November 1962) journal, Volume 39, Issue 3, page 120
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
Let The Children Play!
- Climb trees
- Dig in the dirt
- Follow the leader
- Go on a bug hunt
- Hide and seek
- Hopscotch
- Jump over things
- Make mud pies
- Roll down a hill
- Stomp in puddles
- Tag
- Weave a daisy chain
What can you add to this list?
 
“The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.” -Dewitt Jones
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Our minds need relaxation and give way
Unless we mix with work a little play.
-Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673)): “The School for Husbands” (1661)
 
“Play is not a break from learning. It is learning.” -Priya Florence Shah
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“Playing is working in a state of grace.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” -Carl Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
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“It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (“Essays”) (1595), Book 1, chapter 23

“Play so that you may be serious.” -Anacharsis: as quoted in Aristotle: “Nicomachean Ethics” (about 350 B.C.E.)
 
“Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less.” -Peter Gray
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“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.” -Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17 or 18)): “The Art of Love” (about C.E. 8)
 
“If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.” -Susanna Miller
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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)

Play
 
Housework can wait,
     My children need kisses.
They want me to play,
     I’ll put off the dishes.
 
When they’re grown,
     I’ll keep the house spic’n’ span . . .
But children grow fast so
     I’ll play while I can.
 
By Leslie Prest
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Overheard: I would like to run around in circles and flap my arms and loudly imitate the sounds made by animals - will you join me?

“Play and playful forms of activity potentially lead towards increasingly complex forms of knowledge, skills, and understanding.” -Elizabeth Wood
 
“When children pretend, they are using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.” -Fred Rogers (Fred McFeely ‘Mister’ Rogers (1928 - 2003))
 
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Wanda.
Wanda, who?
Wanda come over and play with me?
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“Play is the work of childhood.” -Jean Piaget (Jean William Fritz Piaget (1896 - 1980))
 
“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” -Diane Ackerman
 
“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))
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“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” -Heraclitus (Heraclitus of Ephesus (about 535 B.C.E. - 475 B.C.E.)) (500 B.C.E.)
 
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926 - 2016)
 
“Having forgotten the importance of play or even how to play, we have invented professional sports leagues. Play is fun; sport as entertainment is vicarious fun, or fun minus the robust growth of mind and muscle and genuine camaraderie.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” -Alan Watts (Alan Wilson Watts (1915 - 1973)): “Essential Lectures of Alan Watts” (1973), Volume 1: ‘Work as Play’ audio recording
 
“When we deny children play, we are denying them the right to understand the world.” -Erika Christakis
 
“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.” -Gottfried Benn
 
“Life is playfulness . . .We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us.” -Flora Colao
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“Many children cannot play because they live in circumstances in which merely surviving is everything. By adulthood, they have had their play instinct suppressed so completely that they would actually have to relearn it. What is the solution to this?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.” -Stuart Brown
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“Play brings joy. And it’s vital for problem solving, creativity, and relationships.” -Margarita Tartakovsky
 
“The human urge to create comes from the play impulse.” -Carla Hannaford: “Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head”
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“It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality . . .” -D. W. Winnicott 
 
“The world is your playground. Why aren’t you playing?” -Ellie Katz
 
“Children are not built to sit and be taught. They were built to play, explore, and discover.” -Author Unknown
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“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”  -Jean Piaget (Jean William Fritz Piaget (1896 - 1980))
 
Henny: Why did the child cross the playground?
Penny: To get to the other slide!
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“When they play, children learn the skills they need for life.” -Peter Gray
 
“Some days are simply meant for playing.” -Mary Anne Radmacher (Mary Anne Em Radmacher (born 1957)) at https://www.maryanneradmacher.net/
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“Life must be lived as play.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - about 347 B.C.E.)
 
Every day, it is beneficial for all of us to get out of the little boxes in which we live, and away from the little screens we stare at for hours without end, and go outside - do you remember the place called ‘outside’? Sure you do! It’s where birds and squirrels and grasshoppers and people live and learn and grow and play and have fun! So why not head out there right now and . . . Make Fun Of Life!

Hats And Headwear

“Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they’re wearing a hat.” -Philip Treacy
 
“Whenever you wear your hat, your day will be special.” -Margo Nickel at www.margonickel.com
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“I myself have twelve hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why be just yourself?” -W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973))
 
When Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)) found himself with writer’s block, or an inability to think of anything to write, he would go to a closet filled with hundreds of hats and wear them until he became inspired and thought of the words he needed for his rhyming storybook writing. You might know Dr. Seuss as the author of a book titled, “The Cat in the Hat” (12 March 1957).
 
“He can’t think without his hat.” -Samuel Beckett (Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)): “Waiting for Godot” (5 January 1953), act I
 
“Saying you don’t look good in hats is like saying you don’t look good in shoes.” -Author Unknown
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Overheard: I put on my funny hat, and suddenly the world becomes a much happier place.
 
“Some hats can only be worn if you’re willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you’re only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.” -Neil Gaiman (Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born 1960)): “Anansi Boys” (20 September 2005)
 
“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.” -Frank Sinatra (Francis Albert ‘Frank’ Sinatra (1915 - 1998))
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“Wearing a hat versus not wearing a hat is the difference between looking adequate and looking your best.” -Martha Sliter
 
Og: What hat for?
Ug: Forehead, of course!
 
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris, France never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
 
“And all your future lies beneath your hat.” -John Oldham
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“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.” -Raymond Chandler
 
Hat And Headwear Sayings
- If the hat fits, it’s a good day.
- With the right hat, you can travel the world.
- You can’t eat your hat and have it, too.
What can you add to this list?
 
Customarily, men remove their hats and hold them over their hearts at funeral processions and funerals, when the flag of their nation passes by in a parade or procession, and when entering a church. When out of doors, men tip their hats when greeting women and persons of standing in the community in passing one another.
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​Overheard: In these immensely difficult times, the world is facing a critical shortage of . . . funny hats! Visit https://www.villagehatshop.com/.
 
“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.” -Philip Treacy
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In 1571, England’s Queen Elizabeth I decreed that all females over 7 years of age had to wear hats on Sundays.
 
Bonnie: Which country makes Panama hats?
Hattie: Ecuador - confused, are you?
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“He wears hats, even though he has hair. Very suspicious.” -Dan Theis
 
“If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
“With the right hat, nothing else matters.” -Author Unknown: LaPaloma Hats
 
“Hat: Something the average man covers his head with, the beggar passes around, the statesman throws into the ring, and the politician talks through.” -Author Unknown
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How To Measure USA Hat Size. Take a flexible tape measure or a piece of string and wrap it around the head, holding it about 1/8 of an inch or 3 millimeters above the ears and just slightly above the eyebrows, which is typically the largest circumference-area of the head. Find the resulting length and divide it by an approximation of pi, with 3.14 usually being close enough. So, for example, a person whose head measures 23.25 inches around would divide 23.25 inches by 3.14, giving 7.4 (rounded to the nearest tenth of a decimal), which converts to approximately 7 and 3/8ths, which would be the person’s hat size. Some hats, however, do not have precise measurements, coming instead in sizes such as small, medium, and large, so the imprecise hats would have to tried-on for fit. Other hats have an elastic band or lining inside, which stretches to fit the wearer’s head. Baseball caps and trucker’s hats commonly have an adjustable fitting at the backs of the hats.
 
“The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.” -William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook (also known as Lord Beaverbrook (1879 - 1964))
 
Wendy: Why did the hat cross the road?
Breeze: Because it was a windy day.
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“It is not a small world to a man who chases his hat on a windy day.” -Author Unknown
 
“I tip my hat to everyone doing the very best they can do in a world that can make it difficult.” -Author Unknown
 
Gentlemen, that’s a lawful order: A law in the American state of Kentucky forbids men from buying ten-gallon hats if their wives are not present to assist in choosing the hats.
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So, do ten-gallon hats really hold 38 liters? The hats actually can hold only about three liters (about three-quarters of a gallon or three quarts).
 
There was a Young Lady whose bonnet,
Came untied when the birds sat upon it;
     But she said: ‘I don’t care!
     All the birds in the air
Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!’
-Edward Lear (1812 - 1888): “A Book of Nonsense” (1846)

“Don’t hang your hat higher than you can reach.” -Author Unknown: Belizean proverb
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“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.” -Frederick the Great
 
A person who makes women’s hats is called a milliner, while a person who makes hats for men is called a hatter. The distinction in the names of the two trades arose originally in Europe, where different materials and methods, requiring different sets of skills, were used in making men’s hats and women’s hats.
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My Hat
 
My hat it has three corners,
     Three corners has my hat,
And if it didn’t have three corners,
     It wouldn’t be a hat!
 
By Author Unknown
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“When you put on a hat, you are saying that you are going out into the world with a definite purpose in mind. A hat gives you a sense of direction. Without a hat, you might wander around aimlessly for days and possibly become lost, requiring a search party to be sent out to find you.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“The hat you wear can say a lot about you . . . what does your hat seem to be saying?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat’s felt.” -Author Unknown
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Hat Types And Styles
- Baseball Caps
- Bowlers
- Bucket Hats
- Driver Hats
- Fedoras
- Funny Hats
- Gibus (collapsible top hat)
- Rain Hats
- Stetsons
- Stovepipe Hats
- Straw Hats
- Tinfoil Hats
- Top Hats
- Trucker Hats
- Watch Caps
Can you think of other types of hats?
 
“No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.” -Robert Wilson Lynd
 
A tall chef’s hat is called a toque. When a chef wears a toque and everyone else wears a hairnet, you easily spot who is the boss of the kitchen.
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“A man is nothing without his hat.” -Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, and Chris Webb, who penned the screenplay based on the story developed by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, and Andrew Stanton: “Toy Story 2” (1999) at https://movies.disney.com/toy-story-2; words of character Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Tim Allen)
 
Headwear (Other Than Hats) Types And Styles
- Bonnets
- Crowns
- Hairnets
- Headbands
- Helmets
- Scarves
- Shower Caps
- Tierras
- Veils
Can you think of other types of headwear?
 
“Hats allow you to make a statement without saying a word.” -Author Unknown
 
In what way are hats like shoes for your head?
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Maude: Whenever I’m down in the dumps, I buy a new hat.
Mattie: Oh, so that’s where you get them.

“If you’re going to wear three hats, you’d better grow two more heads.” -Mel Gibson
 
Hat Etiquette
- Remove hats when entering buildings as a sign of respect.
- Tip your hat to the ladies and the gentlemen.
What can you add to this list?
 
Why is a person who acts crazy sometimes called ‘mad as a hatter?’ Hat makers in the nineteenth-century used mercury, which is a poison, in the manufacture of hats. This poison had the effect of causing hatters who came in direct contact with the mercury or its vapors to hallucinate, shake, and do other sorts of strange and weird things. As a result, hatters during that period had the reputation of being ‘mad.’
 
Old Man Of Seaside
 
There was an old man of Seaside
Whose hat was exceedingly wide,
     But he said, “Do not fail,
     If it happens to hail,
To come under my hat at Seaside!”
 
By Author Unknown
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“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))
 
National Hat Day is observed on 15 January of each year. Now you have to remember to wear a hat on that day . . . as if you didn’t already have enough to worry about, like making sure your shoelaces are properly tied!
 
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Wisdom And Advice

​“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” -Author Unknown
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“Be excellent to each other!” -Author Unknown: “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (1989) movie
 
“Pursue worthy aims.” -Solon (about 630 B.C.E. - about 560 B.C.E.)
 
Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you.
Trust, but don’t be deceived. 
Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
-Author Unknown
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If wisdom’s ways you’d wisely seek,
     Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
     And how, and when, and where.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder (Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (1867 - 1957)): “Little Town on the Prairie” (1941), message from C. L. Ingalls to her daughter
 
“Don’t ever let anyone dull your sparkle.” -Author Unknown
 
“If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.” -Author Unknown
 
“Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” -Ron Wild
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“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” -Author Unknown
 
“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb, as quoted in Yvette Grant and Buck Brannaman: “The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom” (19 July 2016), page 71
 
“To get the best advice, it’s better to talk to a few people personally than it is to talk to a lot of people digitally.” -Author Unknown
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“Be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.” -Jessi Lane Adams (pseudonym of Terri Guillemets (born 1973))
 
“Be smart enough to ask for advice, but be wise enough to know who to seek it from.” -Author Unknown
 
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive.” -Author Unknown
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“He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.” [translation to English]
“Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.” [original Latin]
-Titus Maccius Plautus (also known simply as Plautus (254 B.C.E. - 184 B.C.E.)): “Mercator,” IV, 7, 40
 
“Wisdom: Common sense in an uncommon degree.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” -Author Unknown
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“Keep trying. Stay humble. Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra (1925 - 2015))
 
“Write a wise saying, and your name will live forever.” -Author Unknown
 
“Don’t eat anything you shouldn’t.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” -Mary Wortley Montagu (born Mary Pierrepont (1689 - 1762)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.” -Author Unknown: Welsh proverb
 
“What cannot be helped must be endured.” -Author Unknown: “Rob Roy” (7 April 1995) movie; words spoken by character Mary MacGregor
 
“Spend time with those you love, because one of these days you will say either, ‘I wish I had,’ or, ‘I’m glad I did.’” -Author Unknown
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“Whatever advice you give, be brief.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))
 
“You must get good at one of two things: planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“It is traditional on these occasions for me to give you a bit of advice, which you will equally traditionally ignore.” -Philip Mountbatten (also known as Prince Philip (1921 - 2021)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
 
“Don’t ever slam a door; you might want to go back.” -Author Unknown
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“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” -Felix Frankfurter (1882 - 1965): Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 335 U.S. 600 (1948) (dissenting)
 
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“Wise people carry their possessions within them.” -Author Unknown
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“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.” -Gordon R. Dickson
 
“It’s possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.” -Lee Segall
 
“The words you speak today should be soft and tender . . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.” -Author Unknown
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“A strong body makes the mind strong.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (1785) to Peter Carr
 
Accept a proverb out of Wisdom’s schools -
“Barbers first learn to shave by shaving fools.”
-John Wolcot (1738 - 1819): “Works” (1792)
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“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.” -Author Unknown
 
“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.” -Sholom Aleichem (pseudonym of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859 - 1916))
 
“No one is wise at all times.” [translation to English]
“Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit.” [original Latin]
-Gaius Plinius Secundus (also known as Pliny the Elder (C.E. 23 or C.E. 24 - C.E. 79)): “Historia Naturalis,” VII, 41, 2
 
“A mountain shames a molehill until both are humbled by the stars.” -Author Unknown: proverb
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“Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.” -Author Unknown
 
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900))
 
“Wisdom isn’t the acquisition of knowledge. It’s knowing which knowledge is worth acquiring.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
 
“One day you’ll just be a memory to some people. Do your best to be a good one.” -Author Unknown
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931): “The Philosophy of Despair” (1902)
 
“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
 
“Surround yourself with people smarter than you.” -Maggie Wilderotter
 
“Wisdom is practical knowledge gained through experience and observation.” -Author Unknown
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Wisdom Teaches
 
Wisdom teaches:
The fruits of silence;
The blessings of health;
The rewards of self-discipline;
The satisfaction of achievement;
The responsibility of power;
The beauty of nature;
The miracle of love;
The meaning of friendship;
The privilege of prayer;
The power of faith;
The joy of sharing;
The treasure of integrity.
 
By William A. Ward (William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994))
 
“Work hard, dress well, and be nice to people.” -Author Unknown

“Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dearly for it.” -Author Unknown
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“There are many who give advice, but few who offer guidance.” -Author Unknown
 
“If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add, ‘All the time.’” -Randy Pausch (Randolph Frederick ‘Randy’ Pausch (1960 - 2008))
 
“The first step toward madness is to think oneself wise.” -Fernando de Rojas
 
“Remember, it’s not the fall that hurts you; it’s the stop at the end.” -Author Unknown
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“No man is wise enough by himself.” [translation to English]
“Nemo solus satis sapit.” [original Latin]
-Titus Maccius Plautus (also known simply as Plautus (254 B.C.E. - 184 B.C.E.)): “Miles Gloriosus,” III, 3, 12
 
“True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known simply as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.)): “Adelphi,” III. 3. 32
 
Enjoy yourself,
It’s later than you think.
-Herb Magidson (1906 - 1986): “Enjoy Yourself” (1950) song lyrics
 
“Rise with the Sun and go to bed with the chickens.” -Author Unknown
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“Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it.” -Publilius Syrus (also known simply as Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)), Maxim 152, as quoted in Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, compiler and Kate Louise Roberts, editor: “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 10 and 11
 
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” -Aeschylus (525 B.C.E. - 456 B.C.E.)
 
“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)
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The road to wisdom?
     Well it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again
     but less and less and less.
-Piet Hein (1905 - 1996)
 
“Be wise to-day; ‘tis madness to defer.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765): “Night Thoughts” (1742 - 1745), ‘Night 1, line 391
 
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.” -Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.): as quoted in Plato: “Phaedrus,” Section CCXXXV
 
“Whoever is not too wise is wise.” [translation to English]
“Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Valerius Martialis (also known simply as Martial (between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 - between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104)): “Epigrammata,” XIV. 10. 2
 
“The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essays,” Book I, Chapter XXV
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“Few persons have good enough sight to see their own faults.” -Author Unknown
 
“Never leave hold of what you’ve got until you’ve got hold of something else.” -Donald Herzberg
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“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb
 
“The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essays,” Book I, Chapter XXV
 
“In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 11, verse 14 and chapter 24, verse 6
 
“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike (Edward Lee Thorndike (1874 - 1949))
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“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this Earth would be God’s Paradise.” -Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
 
“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
 
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
 
Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone.
Don’t worry about the future, it hasn’t arrived.
Live in the present, and make it beautiful.
-Author Unknown
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“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)
 
“Speak your mind but ride a fast horse.” -Author Unknown
 
“The value lies not within a thing, but in the value placed by someone on that thing.” -Author Unknown
 
“Charity gives itself rich; greed hoards itself poor.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
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“If a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wants it.” -George Savile (also known as Lord Halifax (1633 - 1695))
 
“No man was ever wise by chance.” [translation to English]
“Nulli sapere casu obtigit.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, LXXVI
 
“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.” -Author Unknown
 
“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.” -Joseph Marshall Wade (1832 - 1905)
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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” -Robert Brault (born 1938)
 
“Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul.” -Author Unknown
 
“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” -Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771))
 
“It’s a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.” -Author Unknown
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“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version), ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 4, verse 7
 
“Wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future, and profit from the past.” -Author Unknown
 
“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.” -Sydney J. Harris (Sydney Justin Harris (1917 - 1986))
 
Good Advice
 
Don’t shirk
     Your work
For the sake
     Of a dream;
A fish
     In the dish
Is worth ten
     In the stream.
 
By Author Unknown
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“We are wiser than we know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
 
“Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom . . . For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.” [translation to English]
“Prima sapientiae clavis definitur, assidua scilicet seu frequens interrogatio . . . Dubitando enim ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.” [original Latin]
-Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142): “Sic et Non,” ‘Prologus’; as translated to English by Frank Pierrepont Graves: “A History of Education During the Middle Ages and the Transition to Modern Times” (2005 reprint of 1918 version), page 53
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“Be careful whilst playing under the anvil tree.” -Author Unknown
 
“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
 
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.” -Felix Frankfurter: in the matter of Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 335 U.S. 600 (1948), dissenting
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In such green palaces the first kings reign’d,
     Slept in their shades, and angels entertain’d;
With such old counselors they did advise,
     And frequenting sacred groves grew wise.
-Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687): as published in Edmund Waller and John Denham (1614 or 1615 - 1669): “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham” (1857), ‘On St James’s Park, As Lately Improved By His Majesty’
 
“Never needlessly disturb a thing at rest.” -John Randolph
 
Keep your eye on the ball.
Keep your shoulder to the wheel.
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
Now try to work in that position.
-Author Unknown
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“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” -Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636 - 1711)
 
“Dare to be wise.” [translation to English]
“Sapere aude.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Epistles,” I, 2, 40
 
“Seek advice but use your own common sense.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb
 
“Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” -Author Unknown
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Chapter 22
 
Man thinks
Brutes* have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world?
-George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “The Spanish Gypsy” (1868), Book II
*brutes: animals, beasts, or nonhuman creatures
 
“Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.” -Michelle Moschetti
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“Whatever you are, try to be a good one.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): as quoted in Laurence Hutton’s memoir, ‘A Boy I Once Knew,’ serialized in “St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks” (March 1897), Volume 24, Number 5, page 413, column 2; also as quoted in Laurence Hutton: “A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs” (1898) autobiography
 
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” -Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)): “Frankenstein” (1818), Chapter 8; line spoken by character Justine Moritz
 
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Latin

​“We play well in groups.” [English]
“Ludemus bene in compania.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the Barony of Marinus
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“I forgot to polish the clocks!” [English]
“Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Time flies.” [translation to English]
“Tempus fugit.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))
 
Why do people learn Latin? The answer to that question can be found further down this page, and as we make our way there, let’s look at some varying degrees of humor, inspiration, and learning, in both English and Latin . . .
 
“That which is said in Latin sounds profound.” [translation to English]
“Quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Through hardship to the stars.” [English]
“Per ardua ad astra.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the British Royal Air Force
 
“Is it not nifty?” [English]
“Appareo decet nihil munditia?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“I’ll have a pizza with everything on it.” [English]
“Da mihi sis crustum etruscum cum omnibus in eo.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“He who does not advance, goes backwards.” [translation to English]
“Quinon proficit deficit.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” [English]
“Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
Latin phrases are often described as ’multum in parvo,’ or ‘conveying much in few words.’
 
“Here We Are.” [English]
“Ad Sumus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the Brazilian Marine Corps
 
“That you may be loved, be lovable.” [English]
“Ut ameris, amebilis esto.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“To err is human.” [translation to English]
“Errare humanum est.” [original Latin]
-Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“Just the facts, ma’am.” [English]
“Dic mihi solum facta, domina.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: “Dragnet” broadcast series, line of character Sergeant Joe Friday portrayed by actor Jack Webb
 
“From here the way leads to the stars.” [English]
“Hinc itur ad astra.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: written on the wall of the old astronomical observatory of Vilnius University, Lithuania, and the university’s motto.
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“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” [translation to English]
-Author Unknown
“Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe.” [original Latin]
 
“Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon.” [English]
“Draco dormiens nunquam titllandus.” [Latin]
-J. K. Rowling (Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): motto of Harry Potter’s alma mater
 
“Magna est vis consuetudinis.”
“Great is the power of habit.”
-Author Unknown
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“He was raising a tempest in a teapot.” [modern parlance]
“He was stirring up billows in a ladle.” [translation to English]
“Excitabat fluctus in simpulo.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
 
“Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes.” [Latin]
“If you can read this, you are overeducated.” [English]
-Author Unknown
 
“By endurance we conquer.” [English]
“Fortitudine vincimus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“My calculator does not work without batteries.” [English]
“Ducator meus nihil agit sine lagunculae leynidae accedunt.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.” [translation to English]
“Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17 or 18))
 
“Isn’t that lucky! My ball just rolled out of the rough and onto the fairway!” [English]
“Fortunatus sum! Pila mea de gramine horrido modo in partum lene recta volvit!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“The burden is made light which is borne well.” [translation to English]
“Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17 or 18))
 
“Life is more than merely staying alive.” [English]
“Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Now Or Never.” [English]
“Nunc Aut Nunquam.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the Dutch elite special forces Korps Commandotroepen
 
“A mouse does not rely on just one hole.”
“Mus uni non fidit antro.” [original Latin]
-Titus Maccius Plautus (also known simply as Plautus (254 B.C.E. - 184 B.C.E.))
 
“Festina lente.” [original Latin]
“Make haste slowly.” [translation to English]
-Augustus Caesar (born Gaius Octavius; also known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus and by other names and titles (63 B.C.E. - C.E. 14)): as quoted in Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: “Lives of the Caesars” (about C.E. 121)
 
“Gilligan’s Island” [English]
“Insula Gilliganis” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” [translation to English]
“Natura abhorret a vacua.” [original Latin]
-François Rabelais (1494 - 1553)
 
“Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.” [English]
“Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“No one is without fault.” [translation to English]
“Nemo sine vitio est.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Elder or Seneca the Rhetorician (54 B.C.E. - C.E. 39))
 
“You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!” [English]
“Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!” [Latin]
​-Author Unknown
 
“You haven’t aged a bit!” [English]
“Minime senuisti!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“I will either find a way or make one.” [English]
“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Musica delenit bestiam feram.”
“Music soothes the savage beast.”
-Author Unknown
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“Never despair!” [translation to English]
“Nil desperandum!” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.))

​“I don’t care. If it doesn’t rhyme, it isn’t a poem.” [English]
“Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Ready for anything.” [English]
“Utrinque paratus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the British Parachute Regiment and of the Belize National Coast Guard
 
“No stranger to misfortune [myself], I learn to relieve the sufferings [of others].”
“Non ignara mals, miseris svccvrrere disco.”
-Author Unknown
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“Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians.” [translation to English]
“Non omnes qui habemt citharam sunt citharoedi.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
 
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” [English]
“Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“I’ll get you, you wascally wabbit!” [English]
“Te capiam, cunicule sceleste!” [Latin]
-Elmer Fudd
 
“Always faithful.” [English]
“Semper fidelis.” or “Semper fi.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the United States Marine Corps
 
“I do not live to eat, but eat to live.” [translation to English]
“Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (about C.E. 35 - C.E. 100))
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“I count only the bright hours.” [translation to English]
“Horas non numero nisi serenas.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown: inscription on a sundial
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“You’re from New York, aren’t you?” [English]
“Nonne de novo eboraco venis?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“We learn by teaching.” [English]
“Docendo discimus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Never a backward step.” [English]
“Vestigia nulla retrorsum.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of Wanganui Collegiate School
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“A great man can come from a hut.” [translation to English]
“Potest ex casa magnus vir exire.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
 
“The first thing is to do no harm.” [translation to English]
“Primum non nocere.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown: Hippocratic oath
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“I really don’t know all that much Latin.” [English]
“Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“O diem praeclarum!” [Latin]
“Oh, what a beautiful day!” [English]
-Author Unknown
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“Learn by doing.” [English]
“Discere faciendo.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of California Polytechnic State University, California, United States Of America
 
“What’s up, Doc?” [translation to English]
“Quid agis, medice?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Peace is the greatest good.” [English]
“Pax optima rerum.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Quomodo vales?” [Latin]
“How are you?” [English]
-Author Unknown
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“I know that I know nothing.” [translation to English]
“Scio me nihil scire.” [original Latin]
-Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
 
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles.” [English]
“Sic friatur crustum dulce.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Honk if you speak Latin.” [English]
“Sona si Latine loqueris.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Si minor plus est ergo nihil sunt omnia.” [Latin]
“If less is more, then nothing is everything.” [English]
-Author Unknown
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“Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.” [English]
“Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Valor, not garland.” [England]
“Virtus non stemma.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the Duke of Westminster, inscribed at his residence in Eaton and the motto of the Grosvenor Rowing Club and the Harrow County School for Boys
 
“Have you lost weight?” [English]
“Nonne macescis?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“For fear of failure, he did nothing.” [modern parlance]
“He who feared he would not succeed sat still.” [translation to English]
“Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): Book I, epistle xvii, line 37
 
“Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?” [Latin]
“How do you get your hair to do that?” [English]
-Author Unknown
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“As you sow, so shall you reap.” [translation to English]
“Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
 
“Seen any good movies lately?” [English]
“Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Knowledge is the adornment and protection of the Empire.” [English]
“Scientia imperii decus et tutamen.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of Imperial College London
 
“Per aspera ad astra.” [Latin]
“Through the thorns to the stars.” [English]
-Author Unknown
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Although sometimes called a ‘dead language’ because it is no longer commonly spoken, Latin was once considered a ‘Universal Language’ by the elite and the educated (anybody who could read) in Western Europe and some other places in the world. Children were taught Latin in schools to ensure their positions in the upper classes of society, and any written work was expected to be in Latin if it was to be accepted as a serious scholarly, scientific, theological, mathematical, philosophical, legal, or literary piece. The advantage of a Universal Language is that people would need to learn only their native tongue plus the single Universal Language, which they could then use in communicating with others who used any of many different languages. So, if a French speaker, an English speaker, an Italian speaker, a German speaker, and a Spanish speaker got together, they could all speak, read, and write the Universal Language rather than needing to communicate in five different languages. Latin has fallen out of common use, and English is presently closest to holding the Universal Language title, although it will likely lose that position as computers become capable of real-time language translations. However, knowing a smattering of Latin can still be useful because many phrases, words, and parts of words (such as prefixes, root words, and suffixes) have Latin origins.
 
“At the same time both said and done.” [translation to English]
“Simul et dictum et factum.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown

“I can’t hear you. I have a banana in my ear.” [English]
“Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket.” [English]
“Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur. “ [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“I think some people in togas are plotting against me.” [English]
“Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Are your cows happy?” [English]
“Suntne vacci laeti?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Overcome evil with good.” [English]
“Bono malum superate.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of Westonbirt School
 
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” [English]
“Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The heavens declare the glory of God.” [translation to English]
“Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Mind increases by using.” [translation to English]
“Mens crescit agendo.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“My conscience is more to me than what the world says.” [English]
“Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omium sermo.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Give me a hamburger, french fries, and a thick shake.” [English]
“Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“In the absence of light, darkness prevails.” [English]
“In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Let the buyer beware.” [translation to English]
“Caveat emptor.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The burden is made light which is borne well.” [English]
“Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Save the whales!” [English]
“Balaenae nobis conservandae sunt!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Do not irritate lions.” [English]
“Noli irritare leones.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Do you want to dance?” [English]
“Visne saltare?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“You know, Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” [original English]
“Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse.” [translation to Latin]
-L. Frank Baum (Lyman Frank Baum (1856 - 1919)): “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), line of character Dorothy
 
“Examine the past, examine the present, examine the future.” [English]
“Respice, adspice, prospice.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.” [English]
“Faber est suae quisque fortunae.” [Latin]
-Appius Claudius Caecus: motto of Fort Street High School in Petersham, Sydney, Australia
 
“Blessed be the name of the Lord.” [translation to English]
“Sit Nomen Domini Benedictum.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“A safe journey to you.” [English]
“Bene ambula et redambula.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way.” [English]
“Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Arms maintain peace.” [translation to English]
“Arma tuentur pacem.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close.” [English]
“Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“As spring brings flowers, so study brings honours.” [English]
“Ut ver dat florem, studium sic reddit honorem.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“To improve the law is to improve life.” [English]
“Meliorare legem meliorare vitam est.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the Salem/Roanoke County, Virginia Bar Association.
 
“‘A precipe in front, wolves behind.” [translation to English]
“Between a rock and a hard place.” [similar idea]
“A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Old MacDonald had a farm. And on his farm he had some cows. E-I-E-I-O. With a moo moo here, and a moo moo there. Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo. Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O.” [English]
“Macdonaldus Senex fundum habuit. E-I-E-I-O. Et in hot fundo nonnullas boves domesticas habuit. E-I-E-I-O. Cum moo moo hic, et cum moo moo ibi. Hic una moo, ibi una moo, ubique una moo. Macdonaldus Senex fundum habuit. E-I-E-I-O.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“There is safety in numbers.” [translation to English]
“Defendit numerous.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“The clothes make the man.” [translation to English]
“Vestis virum reddit.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (about C.E. 35 - C.E. 100))
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“Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!” [Latin]
“If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!” [English]
-Author Unknown
 
“What can be done today should not be delayed.” [English]
“Per multum cras, cras, crebro dilabitur aetas.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Always prepared.” [translation to English]
“Semper paratus.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: motto of the United States Coast Guard
 
“They can because they think they can.” [English]
“Possunt quia posse videntur.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“If you are wise, be a bee.” [English]
“Si sapis, sis apis.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Wisdom is better than gold.” [English]
“Sapientia melior auro.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown: Motto of the University of Deusto, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Spain
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“A picture is a silent poem.” [English]
“Muta est pictura poema.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“The spoken word vanishes but the written letter remains.” [English]
“Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“How much is that doggie in the window?” [English]
“Quanti canicule ille in finestere?” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare.” [Latin]
“He who wishes to give little should not ask for much.” [English]
-Author Unknown
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“Cow, cow! “ [English]
“Vacca, vacca!” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Nothing without labor.” [English]
“Nil sine labore.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“The tree can be recognized by its fruits.” [English]
“E fructu arbor cognoscitur.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
 
“Flying saucers are real.” [English]
“Orbes volantes exstare.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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‘Derident Vitae!’ is Latin for ‘Make Fun Of Life!’ . . . but it’s not the only Latin worth knowing . . .

Cheapskates And Misers

​Gerard: How many misers does it take to change a light bulb?
Jeremy: None - misers are so cheap that they would rather sit in the dark than buy a new bulb!
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“No matter what the product or service might be, you can always find it somewhere else cheaper!” -Ebenezer Scrooge
 
A boy asked his father for twenty dollars. His father replied, “Ten dollars, what in the world do you need five dollars for, I’d be happy to give you a dollar, here’s a quarter.”
 
“If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!” -William Shatner (William Alan Shatner (born 1931))
 
“If you really want your friends to remember you, give them something cheap.” -Author Unknown
 
Miserly tip: Old telephone books make ideal personal address books. Simply cross out the names and addresses of people you don’t know.
 
“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.” -attributed to John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
 
After being away on a business trip, Tim thought it would be nice to get his wife a little gift. “How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed him a bottle costing $85. “That’s a bit much,” said Tim, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $49. “That’s still quite a bit,” Tim complained. Growing annoyed, the clerk brought out a tiny $17 bottle. “What I mean is,” said Tim, “I’d like to see something really cheap.” So the clerk handed him a mirror.
 
“In the old days, a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder.” -Author Unknown

​Matthew: How was copper wire invented?
Matilda: Two cheapskates were fighting over a penny.
 
A man walked into a coffee shop and asked the waitress, “How much is the coffee?” “Coffee is three dollars,” the waitress said. “How much is a refill?” the man asked. “Free,” said the waitress. “Great, then I’ll take a refill!” said the man.
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“The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.” [translation to English]
“Quærit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Ars Poetica” (18 B.C.E.), 170
 
Ned: Which dog has long hair and never spends any money?
Dan: An Old English cheap dog.
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Ellie: Why does Scrooge love all of the reindeer?
Angela: Because every buck is dear to him!
 
The following anecdote is about the Austrian poet Peter Altenberg. “Though in fact he maintained a very solid bank balance, Mr. Altenberg had a mania for begging. The poet and critic Karl Kraus tells how Altenberg besought him again and again to give him a hundred kronen, and on every occasion Mr. Kraus refused him. Finally, his patience at an end, Kraus burst out, “Look Peter, I’d gladly give it to you, but I really, really don’t have the money.” “Very well, I’ll lend it to you,” said Altenberg.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, editors: “Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes” (2000)
 
Overheard: I hate to always eat and run, but with the way I tip, it’s the only safe procedure!
 
A Young Fellow Named B. B.
 
A certain young fellow named B. B.
Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe
     “But,” he said. “I must see
     What the minister’s fee be
Before Phoebe be Phoebe B. B.”
 
By Author Unknown

​Miserly tip: When the very young and the very old team up, they can really benefit. Grab any available grandma or grandpa to take with you when shopping, give them your cash, have them pay at the checkout for your items so you can get a 5% senior discount, where available, and then use the savings to buy lunch for you and your new old person friend.
 
“I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a badge of honor . . . it is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country!” -William McKinley (1843 - 1901)
 
“Free speech: Using someone else’s telephone.” -Author Unknown
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Good Places to Look for ‘Pennies from Heaven’
- Around parking meters.
- In laundromats.
- In outdoor water fountains.
- In parking lots.
- On the sidewalks when you go for long walks.
- Under amusement park rides.
- Under coin-operated vending machines.
- Under the bleachers at sports events.
 
“Small change can often be found under seat cushions.” -Author Unknown
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First man: Why do you always remove the batteries from the clock and keep them outside?
Second man: I want to extend the battery life, and so I put them in the clock only when I want to see the time.
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Penelope: Why do misers like paper money more than coins?
Penny: When they put it in their pockets they double it, when they take it out, it’s ‘in creases.’
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‘Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain the riches he can ne’er enjoy.
-Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

“There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.” -Bill Bryson (born 1951): “Notes from a Big Country” (1999)
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There are money-saving devices, as for example, attachments that fit over tubes of toothpaste to allow every bit of toothpaste to be squeezed out; however, the problem with such devices is that people have to part with some money to have them.
 
“If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I’m cheap!” -Delta Burke
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In 1951, the richest woman in the world was Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Robinson Green Wilks (1871 - 1951), who left an estate of $94,965,229 (about $1,150,840,000 in today’s dollars) in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of carefully saved soap.
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Overheard: I am such a cheapskate that I do not even have skates!
 
“Cheap is seldom good, and good is seldom cheap.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. She said, ‘It’s free with purchase.’ I asked her if anyone bought anything today.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
 
“Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors.” -Tom Snyder (born 1936)
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Repeat after us: Cheap is good, cheap is good, cheap is good . . .
 
“A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.” -William Shenstone (1714 - 1763)
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​A miser was at the top of a ladder when a coin fell from his pocket. The coin bounced off his shoulder as both he and the coin rapidly raced toward the ground.
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“I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.” -Benjamin Harrison (1833 - 1901)
 
And then there was the miser who took his date to the beach and told her ‘shady’ stories so that he would not have to rent an umbrella . . .
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Miserly tip: Do not waste money on expensive music playing gadgets. Instead, just think of your favorite tune and hum it. If you want to ‘switch tracks,’ simply think of another song you like and hum that one.
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Overheard: Cheapest is best.

Keepsakes Of A Cheapskate
 
Empty cardboard boxes,
     Meters of old string,
I am a cheapskate, and
     I will save any old thing.
 
My bed is a rubber dingy
     That washed up on the shore
I am miserly and stingy -
     But even I won’t sleep on the floor!
 
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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​Melba: What do misers do when it is cold?
Blaine: They sit around a candle.
 
Brenda: What do misers do when it is really, really cold?
Belinda: They light the candle!
 
A miser was in a candle shop and asked, “Does one type of candle burn longer than another?” The shopkeeper replied, “No, they all burn shorter.”
 
“A cheapskate is a person who tries to live far above his means, while a miser is a person who successfully lives far beneath his means.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“He who is frugal is the richest of men, and the miser is the poorest.” -Nicolas Chamfort (also known as Sébastien Chamfort and Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort and Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, born as Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1741 - 1794)): “Maxims and Thoughts” (1796), as translated by W. S. Merwin (1984)
 
Have you heard about the cheapskate who was pleased with himself because he had married a woman who was born on 29 February? He would only have to buy her a birthday present once every four years!
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There was an Old Man of El Hums,
Who lived upon nothing but Crumbs,
     Which he picked off the ground,
     With the other birds round,
In the roads and the lanes of El Hums.
-Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
 
Now you, too, can join in by standing up and proudly proclaiming, “I am a cheapskate!”
 
Bertie: What is the difference between a miser and a canary?
Bernard: One is a little cheap and the other is a little cheeper.
 
“The happiest miser on Earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.” -Robert E. Sherwood
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“What he has is of no more use to the miser than which he has not.” -Publilius Syrus (also known simply as Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
 
Miserly tip: Before throwing away old shoes, remove the shoestrings, which can be used to make clotheslines, dog leashes, a hammock, a giant ball of string, and many other things.
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One old geezer was so miserly that he kept a brown paper bag in the attic of his house, labeled ‘Pieces Of String Too Short To Use.’
 
Why be miserly with humor and inspiration and learning - when you can share what you find here with other people - and never have to pay for it?!
 
“You don’t have to be a miser, just be wiser with your money.” -Dorethia Conner Kelly
 
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Loneliness And Solitude

​If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you are not alone in what you are experiencing . . . and yet, you are alone . . . so very, very alone . . .
 
“Feeling lonely is fine. Staying this way forever is not.” -Maxime Lagacé
 
Jered: Why are bananas never lonely?
Derek: Because they hang around in bunches!
 
“You call it being alone. I call it enjoying my own company.” -Author Unknown
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“One’s need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.” -Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
 
I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822): “Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou”
 
“When you have shut your doors and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone; for you are not alone, but God is within and your genius is within.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135): “Discourses,” Book I, chapter 14
 
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.” -Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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“Dear sidewalk, please get wider. Sincerely, third friend walking behind and feeling excluded.” -Author Unknown
 
“More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and sense of purpose from our lives. It explains why people go to shopping centers when they have no intention of shopping. They just need to be somewhere where other people are, hoping that among the hundreds of strangers passing by, they will find one familiar face. It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives.” -Harold Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
 
“Robinson Crusoe hardly used to the best advantage his glorious chance of solitude, because it pleased him to dine with four companions - a parrot, a dog, and two cats. Worse than this, the parrot could talk!” -Norman Gale: “Solitude” (1913), page 10
 
How to Deal with Loneliness
- Adopt a pet.
- Go to places where other people go.
- Help others or become a volunteer.
- Keep busy with whatever you can find to do.
- Make friends of strangers.
- Take up a hobby or a cause.
What can you add to this list?
 
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” -Kim Culbertson: “The Liberation of Max McTrue” (3 January 2012) at https://kimculbertson.com/
 
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955): “My Credo” (Autumn 1932) speech to the German League of Human Rights, in Berlin, Germany

​“If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963))
 
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.” -Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900))
 
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will . . . The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed . . .” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Walden; or, Life in the Woods” (1854)
 
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.” -Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
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“I like to be alone, but I dislike being lonely.” -Author Unknown
 
“There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?” -Brigitte Bardot (born 1934)
 
“I was never less alone than when by myself.” -Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794): “Memoir” (1796), Volume i, page 117
 
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961)): “Memories, Dreams and Reflections” (1963), page 356
 
“A crowd is not company.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “Essays” (1625), “On Friendship” (1625)
 
“The pain of loneliness is normal, and is felt by everyone, and is nature’s way of telling us that we are meant to be with others of our own kind.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.” -Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962): “Reflections” (1974), number 196
 
“It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” -Diane Grant (born 1939)
 
“Solitude is only comfortable when it’s an option.” -Beverly Bird
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A guy was lonely and so he decided life would be more fun if he had a pet. He went to the pet store and told the owner that he wanted to buy an unusual pet. After some discussion, he finally bought a centipede (a one-hundred-legged bug), which came in a little white box to use for its house. He took the box back home, found a good location for the box, and decided he would start off by taking his new pet to a restaurant to have a meal. “Would you like to go to Frank’s Diner with me and have a bite to eat?” he asked the centipede in the box. But there was no answer from his new pet. This bothered him a bit, but he waited a few minutes and then asked him again, “How about going out and having a snack with me?” But again, there was no answer from his new friend and pet. So he waited a few minutes more, thinking about the situation. He decided to ask him one more time - this time putting his face up against the centipede’s house and shouting, he said, “Hey, in there! Would you like to go get some food with me?” A tiny little voice came squeaking out of the box in reply, “I heard you the first time! I’m putting on my shoes.”
 
“In a world full of people, we are alone.” -Author Unknown

​There are times when you want to be alone - but the world will not let you alone!
 
“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.” -Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (1905 - 1990))
 
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -J. F. Newton (Joseph Fort Newton (1878 - 1949))
 
“I might be alone, but I’m never lonely.” -Megan Hart
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“You keep a lot to yourself because it’s difficult to find people who understand.” -Author Unknown
 
“The finest hours of life are not those spent among groups of people, but in good conversation with a few, in reading good books, in listening to great music, wandering in a forest of giant Sequoias, peering into a microscope, unraveling Nature’s secrets in a laboratory. The men who have the most to give their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.” -Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881 - 1983)
 
“If I’m such a legend, why am I so lonely?” -Judy Garland (pseudonym of Frances Ethel Gumm (1922 - 1969))
 
“I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.” -Marilynne Robinson
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“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.” -Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842))
 
“Grant me the ability to be alone, may it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses, among all growing things, and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.” -Nachman of Breslov (1772 - 1810)
 
“Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.” -Robert M. Pirsig (Robert Maynard Pirsig (born 1928))
 
“One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.” -Phyllis Rose (born 1942 as Phyllis Davidoff): ‘Hers’ article published in the “New York Times” (3 May 1984) newspaper, Section C, page 2
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“The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.” -I Ching (1150 B.C.E.)
 
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.” -Paul Tournier (1898 - 1986)
 
“Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.” -Jarod Kintz (born 1982)
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“City life: Millions of people being lonesome together.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
 
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.” -Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)

​“My husband, a forester, often has to consult property owners to determine boundary lines. Walking up a dirt road to question one such individual, he encountered signs reading, ‘No Trespassing,’ ‘Beware of Dog,’ and ‘Keep Out - This Means You!’ Finally, arriving at the door, he talked with the congenial, cooperative landowner. When my husband was ready to leave, the man said to him, ‘Come and see me again sometime. I don’t get many visitors up this way.’ The lesson is simple: Ask yourself, am I lonely because of the ‘messages’ I am sending out?” -Author Unknown
 
“No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.” -Arthur H. Stainback (Arthur House Stainback (1909 - 1994))
 
“The truth is that we all know something about loneliness, and that includes even those who might not know what they are feeling when they feel lonely.” -Author Unknown
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“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.” -Teresa of Calcutta (also known as Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910 - 1997)))
 
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.” -Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
 
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
 
“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” -Guillermo Maldonado
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“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” -Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Johan ‘Henrik’ Ibsen (1828 - 1906)): “An Enemy of the People” (1882), act 5
 
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872): “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872), Book V, Chapter XLIV
 
“The difference between solitude and loneliness is the quality of the company we keep.” -Author Unknown
 
“He who professes a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone.” -Berthold Auerbach: “On the Heights” (1865), as translated by Simon Adler Stern. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1907, page 622
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“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891): “Among My Books, Dryden”
 
William Osler (1849 - 1919), visiting one of London’s leading children’s hospitals, noticed that in a convalescent ward all the children were clustered at one end of the room dressing their dolls, playing games, and playing in the sandbox - all except for one little girl, who sat forlornly on the edge of her high, narrow bed, clutching a cheap doll. The great physician looked at the lonely little figure, then at the ward nurse. “We’ve tried to get Susan to play,” the nurse whispered, “but the other children just won’t have anything to do with her. You see, no one comes to see her. Her mother is deceased, and her father has been here just once - he brought her that doll. The children have a strange code. Visitors mean so much. If you don’t have any visitors, you are ignored.” William walked over to the child’s bed and asked in a voice loud enough for the others to hear, “May I sit down, please?” The little girl’s eyes lit up. “I can’t stay very long this visit,” Osler went on, “but I have wanted to see you so badly.” For five minutes he sat talking with her, even inquiring about her doll’s health and solemnly pulling out his stethoscope to listen to the doll’s chest. And as he left, he turned to the youngster and said in a carrying voice, “You won’t forget our secret, will you? - and mind, don’t tell anyone.” At the door he looked back. His new friend was now the center of a curious and admiring throng.
 
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.” -Francis Bacon (1561- 1626)

“Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.” -Ann Richards
 
“A man thinking or working is always alone.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
 
“Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” -Céline Dion (Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 1968))
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“A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745): “Essay on the Faculties of the Mind”
 
“Great minds are like eagles and build their nest in some lofty solitude.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
 
“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” -Paul Tillich (Paul Johannes Tillich (1886 - 1965)): “The Eternal Now,” page 11
 
“I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.” -Cindy Williams (Cynthia Jane ‘Cindy’ Williams (born 1947))
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“Your thought is easily influenced by the presence of another soul; a person can be completely free only when he is alone.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
 
“I restore myself when I’m alone.” -Marilyn Monroe (pseudonym of Norma Jean Mortenson Baker (1926 - 1962))
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“I was never less alone than when by myself.” -Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794): “Memoirs” (1796), Volume I, page 117
 
“A high degree of loneliness is an inexorable part of being a sensitive and intelligent human. It’s a built-in feature of a complex existence.” -Alain de Botton
 
“I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.” -Josh Zuckerman (Joshua Ryan Zuckerman (born 1985))
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.” -Lorraine Hansberry
 
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.” -George Gordon Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)))
 
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” -Diane Von Furstenberg
 
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” -Hugh MacLeod
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“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole Universe.” -Lao Tzu (about 604 B.C.E. - about 531 B.C.E.)
 
“I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” -Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Hepburn-Ruston (1929 - 1993))
 
“One of the most important things you can do on this Earth is to let people know they are not alone.” -Shannon L. Alder at https://www.shannonalder.com/
 
“Alternate between the solitary and the social. Whether alone or with others, keep serenity.” -Deng Ming-Dao
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Actions And Doing

​“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” -Thomas Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)): as quoted in Martin E. Ford: “Motivating Humans: Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs” (1992), page 17
 
“There is nothing worse than being a doer with nothing to do.” -Elizabeth Layton
 
“Do something, do anything, because often in life, one thing leads to another, and it may be the second thing that the first thing leads to that is definitely worthwhile.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
 
“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.” -Evenius (42 B.C.E. - C.E. 13)
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“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” -Jerry Rice (Jerry Lee Rice, Senior (born 1962))
 
“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals; and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.” -Maxwell Maltz (1899 - 1975): “Psycho-Cybernetics” (1960)
 
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.” -P. T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891))
 
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” -Peter Marshall (1902 - 1949)
 
“There are generations yet unborn whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take today.” -Andy Andrews (born 1959): “The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters” (September 2009)
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“We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.” -Woodrow Wilson (Thomas Woodrow ‘Woodrow’ Wilson (1856 - 1924))
 
There are three ways to get things done:
1. Do it yourself.
2. Hire someone to do it.
3. Forbid your children to do it.
-Author Unknown
 
“If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.” -Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898))
 
“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” -Michael Landon (born Eugene Michael Orowitz (1936 - 1991))
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“The smallest action is better than the largest plan.” -John Graves (John Alexander Graves (1920 - 2013))
 
“Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer.” -Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942 as Don Luther Lee)
 
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913)
 
“‘ACT’ is an acronym standing for ‘Action Changes Things.’” -Author Unknown
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“They can because they think they can.” [translation to English]
“Possunt, quia posse videntur.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “Aeneid” (29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book V, Line 231 (as translated by John Conington)
 
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” -Willis Whitney (Willis Rodney Whitney (1868 - 1958))
 
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” -Peter Marshall (1902 - 1949)
 
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” -Marie Beynon Ray (1886 - 1969)
 
“Doing is better than saying.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618)
 
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” -Eckhart von Hochheim (also known as Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1327))
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“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” -Author Unknown: proverb
 
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Pleasures of Life,” volume 1 (1887), chapter II: ‘The Happiness of Duty’
 
“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.” -Vince Lombardi (Vincent Thomas ‘Vince’ Lombardi (1913 - 1970))
 
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke (1632 - 1704): “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1689), Book 1, Chapter 3, section 3
 
“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of Heaven.” -G. C. Lichtenberg (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799))

​“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy” (1849), Lecture XIX: ‘On the Conduct of the Understanding,’ Part II
 
“The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.” -William Pickens (1881 - 1954): “Fifty Years after Emancipation” (1912)
 
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” -Pablo Picasso (Pablo Diego Jose Francisco do Paula Juan Nepomuceno Cipriano de la Santissima Trinidad (1881 - 1971))
 
“I move forward in my life every day, even if it’s only a tiny step, because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves, but nothing is accomplished by standing still.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875): “Andromeda and Other Poems” (1858), ‘A Farewell to C. E. G.’
 
“Look around you, and you will behold the universe full of active powers. Action is, so to speak, the genius of nature. By motion and exertion, the system of being is preserved in vigor. By its different parts always acting in subordination one to another, the perfection of the whole is carried on. The heavenly bodies perpetually revolve. Day and night incessantly repeat their appointed course. Continual operations are going on in the earth and in the waters. Nothing stands still. All is alive and stirring throughout the universe. In the midst of this animated and busy scene, is man alone to remain idle in his place? Belongs it to him to be the sole inactive and slothful being in the creation, when in so many various ways he might improve his own nature; might advance the glory of the God who made him; and contribute his part in the general good?” -Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 4
 
“Actions speak louder than words.” -Author Unknown
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“Many people carry a Can’t Do It List around in their heads as they travel on their journey in life, and it becomes their guide for every decision in their lives and for every moment they are alive and awake. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if that list were transformed into a Possibilities List, or perhaps a Things To Try List?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.” [translation to English]
“Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.” [Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)) : “De Senectute,” IX
 
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” -E. H. Chapin (Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814 - 1880)): as attributed in Charles Northend: “Memory Gems” (1890), page 6
 
“What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn’t, why are you doing it?” -Don Hutcheson (Don ‘Hutch’ Hutcheson)
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“I’m not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.” -Sally Rand (born Helen Gould Beck (1904 - 1979))
 
“Good intentions are not enough. They’ve never put an onion in the soup yet.” -Sonya Levien (born Sara Opesken (1888 - 1960))
 
“In doing we learn.” -George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
 
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 9, verse 10
 
Throw away your wishbone,
     Straighten up your backbone,
Stick out your jawbone,
     And go to it!
-Author Unknown
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“If you don’t have time to do it right, you must have time to do it over.” -Author Unknown
 
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
 
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
-Julia Louise Woodruff (Julia Louise Matilda Woodruff (1832 - 1909)): ‘Harvest Home’ poem published in “Sunday at Home” (1910) magazine
 
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Crown of Wild Olive” (1866), Lecture IV: ‘The Future of England,’ section 151
 
“Never mistake motion for action.” -Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899 - 1961))
 
“Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted to him to perform, therefore he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.” -Sarah Kirby Trimmer (1741 - 1810): “Fabulous Histories” (1821)
 
“The deeds you do today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.” -Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
 
“The secret of getting things done is to act!” -Dante degli Alighieri (also known as Durante Alighieri or simply Dante (about 1265 - 1321))
 
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” -Baltasar Gracián (Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601 - 1658))
 
“The world is blessed most by men who do things and not by those who merely talk about them.” -James Oliver
 
“You don’t have to do everything, but you can always do something.” -Malia Blake (Malia T. Blake (born 1965))
 
“The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 6
 
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” -Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))

“Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.” -Jim Hightower (James Allen ‘Jim’ Hightower (born 1943))
 
“Life is too short to sit on the sidelines; it is much more fun to give it your enthusiastic best.” -Bob Apple
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“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.” -David Thomas (1776 - 1859)
 
“During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.” -Richard Tangye (1833 - 1906)
 
“People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))
 
“Deeds, not words.” [translation to English]
“Facta non verba.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” -W. B. Yeats (William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939))
 
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that the world cares about.” -Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915)): “Mind and Matter” (5 June 1895), address to the Alabama State Teachers’ Association, in Selma, Alabama, United States of America
 
“Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.” -Robert Half (1918 - 2001)
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
 
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891): as quoted in the “North American Review” (July 1867)
 
“Don’t just stand there, make something happen.” -Lee Iacocca (Lido Anthony ‘Lee’ Iacocca (1924 - 2019))
 
Affirmation: If it is to be, it is up to me.
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“It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Elinor Smith (1911 - 2010)
 
“Well done is better than well said.” -Author Unknown
 
“Action makes more fortune than caution.” -Luc DeClapiers (1715 - 1747)
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“Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
 
“The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981))
 
“The shortest way to do many things at once is to do them one at a time.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
“Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided, act promptly.” [translation to English]
“Prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est.” [original Latin]
-Gaius Sallustius Crispus (also known simply as Sallust (86 B.C.E. - 34 B.C.E.)): “Bellum Catilinae” (about 44 B.C.E.), I
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“Let us turn our ‘To Do Lists’ into ‘All Done Lists.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
 
“Do, doing, done!” -Author Unknown
 
“The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.” -Thomas Guthrie (1803 - 1873)
 
“Step by step and the thing is done.” -Charles Atlas (born Angelo Siciliano (1892 - 1972))
 
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.” -Alfred Tennyson (also known as Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892))
 
“Action is the antidote to despair.” -Joan Baez (Joan Chandos Baez (born 1941))
 
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947): “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy” (1995) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/
 
“Always say nothing doing to doing nothing.” -Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011)
 
“Deeds grow into destiny.” -A. L. Linall, Junior
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“Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.” -Author Unknown
 
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
“And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.” -Enoch A. Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)): “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day” (1910), Chapter 12
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“Action has magic, grace, and power in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
“So little done, so much to do.” -Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902)
 
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” -Philip Dormer Stanhope (also known as Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)): “Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman” (1774), ‘10 March 1746’
 
“The more things you do, the more you can do.” -Lucille Ball (Lucille Désirée Ball (1911 - 1989))
 
“In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.” -Dorothea Dix (Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802 - 1887)): as quoted in Lydia Maria Child: “Letters from New York,” Volume 2 (1845), ‘Letter 31’ (31 December 1844), page 284
 
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