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Beer

Beer is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. Beer is brewed from cereal grains—most commonly from malted barley, though wheat, maize (corn), and rice are also used. During the brewing process, fermentation of the starch sugars in the wort produces ethanol and carbonation in the resulting beer. Most modern beer is brewed with hops, which add bitterness and other flavours and act as a natural preservative and stabilizing agent. Other flavouring agents such as gruit, herbs, or fruits may be included or used instead of hops.

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 * The picture which the heathen English have drawn of themselves in Beowulf is one of savage pirates, clad in shirts of ring-armour, and greedy of gold and ale. Fighting and drinking are their two delights. The noblest leader is he who builds a great hall, throws it open for his people to carouse in, and liberally deals out beer, and bracelets, and money at the feast. The joy of battle is keen in their breasts. The sea and the storm are welcome to them. They are fearless and greedy pirates, not ashamed of living by the strong hand alone.
 * , Early Britain: Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881) pp. 15-16.

 * Hrothgar spake, the protector of the Scyldings; "For a defence, O my friend Beowulf, and for a succour hast thou sought us. Thy father avenged by striking, the mightiest of feuds: he was the slaughterer of Heatholaf, among the Wylfings... Full oft drunken with beer, the sons of battle promised over the ale cup, that they would in the beer-hall await Grendel's war, with the terrors of swords. Then was this meadhall at the morning tide, this palace stained with gore when the day dawned; all the benched floor reeking with blood, the hall with gore shed by the sword: I owned all the fewer of my faithful retainers, my dear young men whom there death took away. Sit now to the feast, and joyfully eat, exulting in victory among my warriors, as thy mind may excite thee." Then was for the sons of the Geats, altogether, a bench cleared in the beer-hall; there the bold of spirit, free from quarrel, went to sit: the thane observed his office, he that in his hand bare the twisted ale cup; he poured the bright sweet liquor; meanwhile the poet sang serene in Heorot, there was joy of heroes, no little pomp of Danes and Westerns.
 * Anonymous (c. 1000) Beowulf: A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf (1837) Tr., pp. 20-21.

 * Today, of course, most beer is bittered with hops, and the plant is integral to beer’s identity in the United States and Europe, if not the world. Few know that beer used to be flavored and preserved with a variety of different herbs (bog myrtle and wild rosemary especially), resins, fruit, and animal products. The additives varied widely across northwestern Europe, but the mixture of ingredients, whatever it may have contained, was called gruit.
 * Daniella Bassi, Beer: A Short and Bitter History of Regulation, ''Mises Institute, August 2021

 * There were no rations of rum, but the regulations provided that on foreign voyages, where beer could not be procured, the men might have half a pint of rum, brandy, or arrack in lieu of beer. As yet no tea, coffee, or cocoa was served out to the sailors. The national drink—the drink of the people—was beer; they drank beer for breakfast, beer for dinner, beer for supper, and beer at all other times when they could get it. A gallon of beer, four quarts or eight pints, is, it must be confessed, a plentiful—an affectionate and kindly allowance—for this daily drink; its substitute, when there was no beer, of half a pint of rum or brandy would be more than most of us moderns would care to take in the day, however much diluted.
 * Walter Besant,

 * Taste... can be no criterion by which to judge of the wholesomeness or quality of beer, but as malt liquor may now be considered one of the necessaries of life among the working classes, it is of the greatest importance that they be supplied with such an article, as may not prove injurious to their health. An honest brewer, therefore, should not rest altogether satisfied with being able to please the palates of his customers, but should endeavour to produce what he knows to be a really wholesome and nourishing, as well as an agreeable drink. ...My aim has been to avoid mystery, and to convey useful information...
 * William Black, A Practical Treatise on Brewing, and on Storing of Beer; Deduced from Forty Years Experience (1835) Preface, p. v.

 * At the present time, ale and beer, according to the will of the brewer, approach or recede from one another in their composition and consequent qualities, and are definable only in their extremes. We have reason to believe that our ancestors made a complete distinction: that, with them, ale was the pure wine of the malt, and that beer was that wine mixed with hops, or other bitter ingredients.
 * David Booth, The Art of Brewing (1829) Ch. IV, "Of the Materials of Ale and Beer", p. 19.

Of bere. Bere is made of malte, of hoppes, and water: it is a naturall drynke for a Dutche man. And nowe of late dayes it is moche used in Englande to the detryment of many Englysshe men; specyally it kylleth them the which be troubled with the colycke, and the stone [kidney- or gallstone], & strangulion [inflammation of the throat]; for the drynke is colde drynke; yet it doth make a man fat, and doth inflate the bely, as it doth appere by the Dutche mens faces and belyes. If the bere be well served, and be fyned, & not new, it doth qualyfy the heat of the lyver.
 * Of ale. Ale is made of malte and water; and they the which do put any other thynge to ale then is rehersed, except yest, barme, or godesgood, doth sophystical theyr ale. Ale for an Englysshe man is a naturall drynke. Ale must have these propertyes: it must be freshe and cleare, it muste not be ropy or smoky, nor it must have no weft nor tayle. Ale shuld no be dronke under .v. [5] dayes olde. New ale is wholesome for all men. And sowre ale, and dead ale the which doth not stande a tylt, is good for no man. Barly malte maketh better ale then oten malte or any other corne doth: it doth ingendre grose humoures; but yette it maketh a man stronge.
 * , A compendyous regyment, or, A dyetary of helth made in Mountpyllier (c. 1540) included with The fyrst boke of the introduction of knowledge made by Andrew Borde, of physycke doctor.(1870) p. 256.

 * The drink, which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been tea. It is notorious, that tea has no useful strength in it; that it contains nothing nutritious... Now, then, let us take the bare cost of the use of tea. ...[T]he wretched thing amounts to a good third part of a good and able labourer's wages. For this money, he and his family may drink good and wholesome beer, and, in a short time, out of the mere savings... may drink it out of silver cups and tankards. In a labourer's family, wholesome beer, that has a little life in it, is all that is wanted in general.
 * William Cobbett, : Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees... (1824) pp. 14-16.

 * I adduce reasons to show that the manufacture of beer was the earliest art of primitive man; an art exceeding in antiquity that of the potter or of the wine maker, and certainly that of the baker.
 * James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus... (1887) Preface, p. 4.

 * [T]here exists arguments in favour of regarding one of the eatable varieties of "leaven," Machmetzeth, as the beer of the Hebrews. The mention of beer by the Egyptians is frequent; under the name of Hek, two intoxicating beverages are included. The components of these beers, individually, are not known: one was made from corn, the other was a medicated or sweetened beer, due to the addition of honey, or system of brewing.
 * James Death, The Beer of the Bible: One of the Hitherto Unknown Leavens of Exodus... (1887) Preface, p. 12.

To undertake a folio work on law, Or metaphysics, or again to ring The changes on the Flood or Trojan War; Old subjects these, which Poets only sing Who think a new idea quite a flaw; But thirst for novelty can't fail in liking The theme of Ale, the aptitude's so striking.
 * No doubt it is a very tedious thing
 * J. C. E. (1853) Bresnose Ale. A Collection of Poems presented annually by the Butler of Brasenose College on Shrove Tuesday (1857) p. 111.

 * The boiling of the ... is another one of the essential phases of brewing. ...It is at this stage that the hop is added to the wort, but not until after the latter has boiled a sufficient time. Usually, the boiling requires four hours; at the expiration of the third hour, or still later, perhaps, the brewer will empty the contents of several large sacks full of aromatic hops into the copper, thus adding the bitter principle to the saccharine. ...At present, the average brewer fully understands that he can extract the essence of the hops without excessive boiling. The object of the boiling is: 1. To concentrate the wort; 2. To extract the essence of the hop; 3. To coagulate the unchanged albuminous substances and cause them to settle, together with the unconverted starch which if allowed to remain intact, would materially militate against the preservation of the beer. But this does not do justice to the important functions of hops... the action of this tender plant upon the wort. ...Without it, beer would be nothing more than fermented barley-juice, which... was known to the most ancient nations. Without it, beer could not be preserved for any length of time, and both in appearance and flavor would be greatly inferior to the drink of today. Hence, hops not only impart to beers their pleasantly bitter and aromatic flavor, but they also assist in clarification and produce the preservative qualities. The two principal substances which the hop-cone yields, when boiled, are lupulin and, and it must be the brewer's aim to extract these in just that proportion... The diminutive sparkling grains of the hop flower, called lupulin, are closely wrapped up in the centre of the hop cone, and should be laid bare before the plant is placed in the copper. To this end most brewers will break up the hops...
 * George Ehret, Twenty-five Years of Brewing: With an Illustrated History of American Beer (1891) pp. 67-68.

 * Thus you may see a dozen fish rising in one of the streams, and not be able to prevail upon one of them to look at a fly. ...Oh! my beloved brother of the rod, do you know the taste of beer—of bitter beer—cooled in the flowing river? ...Take, then, your bottle of beer, sink it deep, deep in the shady water, where the cooling springs and freshes are. Then, the day being very hot and bright, and the sun blazing upon your devoted head, consider it a matter of duty to have to fish that long, wide stream... and so, having indued yourself with high wading breeks, walk up to your middle and begin hammering away with your 20-foot flail. Fish are rising, but not at you. No; they merely come up to see how the weather looks, and what o'clock it is. So fish away; there is not above a couple of hundred yards of it, and you don't want to throw more than about two or three-and-thirty yards at every cast. It is a mere trifle. An hour and a half or so, good hard hammering will bring you to the end of it, and then—let me ask you avec impressement—how about that beer? Is it cool? is it refreshing? does it "gurgle, gurgle, and go down glug," as they say in Devonshire? Is it heavenly? is it Paradise, and all the Peris to boot? Ah! if you have never tasted beer under these, or similar circumstances, you have, believe me, never tasted it at all.
 * Francis Francis, By Lake and River: an Angler's Rambles in the North of England and Scotland (1874) p. 223.

 * It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
 * Frederick II of Prussia, 1777; quoted by Bert L. Vallée, Alcohol in the Western World, Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 6 (June), 1998, pp. 80-85

 * By Degas's and Manet's day, many... emporia were called "brasseries," since they featured beer (the term derives from copper brewing vats). Beer had not been the prominent drink in Paris before 1848, for Parisians associated it with peasants and small-town folk. This became a positive factor, however, when enthusiasm for the common man developed in the wake of the revolution of 1848. The provincials who flocked to Paris in the Second Empire brought with them their taste for beer, and so did the greatly increased number of foreign visitors, especially those from the Lowlands, Germany, and Great Britain. Many traditionalists lamented the newly won prominence of beer, considered a provincial and foreign habit when compared to wine.
 * Robert L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Partisan Society (1988)

[W]hen a workman or servant has occasion for a pot of small beer, if bad, he will, perhaps, drink a part of it and throw the remainder away, and, very likely, carelessly leave the cock dropping, in order to get rid of such a bad commodity the sooner. Now, on the other hand, if the small beer was good, the consumers would take care to leave the cock, &c. secure, well knowing they should not have a better sebstitute.
 * ... is too frequently neglected, because the master or mistress of a family drink but a small quantity of it. I verily believe there would be less good small beer consumed in a family of servants and workmen, than if it were inferior and bad in its quality. It may be thought strange by adding the name of good to small beer, but it must be acknowleged that there is a great disparity in the quality of ales, and why not in small beer; on the one hand, it certainly depends on what length you draw from [the] quantity of malt. ...
 * E. Hughes, A Treatise on the Brewing of Beer, Wherein is Proved that One Bushel of Malt more than another Bushel of equal Strength... (1796) Second edition, "Small Beer", pp. 27-29.

 * An will fetch Ninguena for me from her mountain home -- the expert woman who redounds to her mother's credit, the expert who redounds to her mother's credit. Her fermenting-vat is of green, her beer cask is of refined silver and of gold. If she stands by the beer, there is joy, if she sits by the beer, there is gladness; as cupbearer she mixes the beer, never wearying as she walks back and forth, Ninkasi, the keg at her side, on her hips; may she make my beer-serving perfect.
 * Lugalbanda, in Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird, Ur III Period (21st century BCE).

 * Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
 * Proverbs 31:6-7, New International Version. (Many translations have "strong drink" rather than "beer").

With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay, Are summer songs for me and my aunts, While we lie tumbling in the hay.
 * When daffodils begin to peer,
 * William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (1623) Act IV, Scene 2 ( singing).

 * It's late and she's waitinɡ And I know I should go home But every time I start to leave They play another song Then someone buys another round And wherever drinks are free What's made Milwaukee famous Has made a fool out of me

 * Baby's begged me not to go So many times before She says love and happiness Can't live behind those swinging doors Now's she's gone and I'm to blame Too late I finally see What's made Milwaukee famous Has made a loser out of me
 * Glen Sutton, "What's Made Milwaukee Famous" (1968)

 * Ale is rightly called nappy... for it will set a nap upon a man's threed-bare eyes when he is sleepy. It is called Merry-goe-downe, for it slides downe merrily. It is fragrant to the Sent, it is most pleasing to the taste. The flowring and mantling of it (like chequer worke) with the verdant smiling of it, is delightefull to the Sight, it is Touching or Feeling to the Braine and Heart; and (to please the senses all) it provokes men to singeing and mirth, which is contenting to the Hearing. The speedy taking of it doth comfort a heavy and troubled minde; it will make a weeping widowe laugh and forget sorrow for her deceas'd husband. ...It will set a Bashfull Suiter a wooing; It heates the chill blood of the Aged; It will cause a man to speake past his owne or any other man's capacity, or understanding; It sets an Edge upon Logick and Rhetorick; It is a friend to the Muses; It inspires the poore Poet, that cannot compasse the price of Canarie or Gascoign; It mounts the Musician 'bove Eccla†; It makes the Balladmaker Rime beyond Reason; It is a Repairer of a decaied Colour in the face; It puts Eloquence into the Oratour; It will make the Philosopher talke profoundly, the Scholler learnedly, and the Lawyer acute and feelingly. Ale at Whitsontide or a Whitson Church Ale, is a repairer of decayed Countrey Churches; It is a great friend to Truth; so they that drinke of it (to the purpose) will reveale all they know, be it never so secret to be kept; It is an Embleme of Justice, for it allowes, and yeelds measure; It will put Courage into a Coward, and make him swagger and fight; It is a Seale to many a good Bargaine. The Physittian will commend it; the Lawyer will defend it; It neither hurts or kils any but those that abuse it unmeasurably and beyond bearing; It doth good to as many as take it rightly; It is as good as a Paire of Spectacles to cleare the Eyesight of an old Parish Clarke; and in Conclusion, it is such a nourisher of Mankinde, that if my Mouth were as bigge as, my Pen as long as a Maypole, and my Inke a flowing spring, or a standing fishpond, yet I could not with Mouth, Pen, or Inke, speake or write the true worth and worthiness of Ale.
 * John Taylor, Drinke and Welcome (1637) as quoted by Charles Henry Cook, The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (1889) pp. 4-5. †Note: The (1086) records ‘Bradewatre ... ibi eccla’, "there a church".

 * This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our Maker and glory to His bounty by learning about…beer!
 * Friar Tuck, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

[B]ottle beer requires... a number of qualities... I... summarize... the most essential: (1) It must be of perfect brilliancy or limpidity, at all temperatures. (2) It must have a close and lasting foam. (3) It must be sparkling, and have a sufficiency (but not an excess) of carbonic acid gas. (4) It must have a mild hop aroma. (5) It must have a full smooth and agreeable hop taste. (6) It must have good stability or keeping qualities. ... [Y]our beers, after leaving your cellars will, when exposed to either very cold or moderately warm temperatures... almost invariably undergo chemical or physical changes, which will manifest themselves by producing cloudiness, or formation of deposit, or even... very disagreeable taste and odor. ...[L]et us see how we may mitigate these difficulties and reduce them to a minimum. ... [T]he "vinous" varieties (generally classed as of the type) are... the best adapted for the bottling trade. ... [Q]ualities as these can only be produced from the very choicest brewing materials, but... the results can still only be realized by expert and practical brewers... [U]niformly good bottle beer brewing requires: (a) Specially selected malt and hops. (b) Specially adapted mashing temperatures and methods. (c) Special fermentation temperatures and pure yeasts. (d) Special conditions of maturation and finishing. (e) Special attention to absolute cleanliness. ... [T]he most appropriate original wort gravity... about 1.055 specific gravity... [T]he most suitable blend of materials... 80 per cent. of choice, mellow, full-grown, pale, high-dried malt; 20 per cent. of the best rice, corn grits, or corn flakes; and approximately 0.8 pound of choice new hops per finished barrel... [W]here the water supply is very soft... it [should] be hardened by appropriate chemical treatment...
 * [M]y intention... communicating... some of the results of my experience as Consulting Brewer among every sort and condition of brewery during the past twenty years... [T]he trade in bottle beers is increasing into startlingly large proportions... and may have practically no limit... [W]hether bottle beer is... going to be a source of... commercial advantage to those brewers who now sell... in half barrels or kegs... must be explained... by [others].
 * Dr. Francis Wyatt, "Some Notes on Bottled Beer Brewing", Meeting Held at the Chemists Club, New York (November 16, 1906) Transactions of the American Brewing Institute, Vol. 3, pp. 216-218.

Beer, therefore, must... be considered as a beverage conducive to health, which, instead of leading to intoxication and intemperance, works in the direction of moderation and true temperance, successfully contending against the use of highly intoxicating distilled liquors.
 * Beers may... in a certain sense, be regarded as cereal wine, as they actually have been termed by the Greek and Roman writers, or as a product of vinification, as it has been called in the middle ages and even later. ...[E]verything we expect from wine we expect from beer also, and in addition thereto a high percentage of extractive matter, a special hop flavor and taste, and a foamy head of good keeping. Generally speaking, beer... must be defined as a beverage produced by the alcoholic fermentation of a saccharine liquid, called wort, which is produced by the saccharification of starchy material obtained from grain, usually by means of, which substance is formed in the grain by the germination (malting) of the same. Beer, above all, must not alone be regarded as a luxury, but also as a food product. Millions of the working classes find in beer a cheap, healthful stimulant while engaged in hard physical labor, which, besides its nourishing effect, possesses other still more invigorating and strength replacing qualities. It is owing to its great percentage of extract, together with a moderate amount of alcohol, that beer possesses the qualities necessary to serve these purposes.
 * The Western Brewer (Supplement to), One Hundred Years of Brewing: A Complete History of the Progress Made in the Art, Science and Industry... (August, 1901) Vol. XXVI, No. 8 (1876-1901) pp. 30-31.

The Greeks and Latins comprehended every kind of beverage made by the process of fermentation under the same general name, and beer was designated as barley-wine; but, by the use of the name zythos, they show that the Egyptians distinguished it by a totally different appellation.
 * The Egyptian beer was made from barley; but, as hops were unknown, they were obliged to have recourse to other plants, in order to give it a grateful flavour; and the lupin, the skirret, and the root of an Assyrian plant, were used by them for that purpose. ...The account given by Athenæus of Egyptian beer is that it was very strong, and had so exhilarating an effect that they danced, and sang, and committed the same excesses, as those who were intoxicated with the strongest wines: an observation confirmed by the authority of Aristotle... distinguishing persons suffering under the influence of wine and beer... how invariably the former in that state "lie upon their face, and the latter on their backs." ...
 * Sir, The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (1847) Third Edition, Vol. 2, pp. 171-173.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 204-07.

 * Here With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass Unheeded by: And as they fly, I, Being dry, Sit, idly sipping here My beer.
 * George Arnold, Beer.

 * They who drink beer will think beer.
 * Quoted by Washington Irving—Sketch-book, Stratford-on-Avon. They who drink water will think water. (Travesty of the foregoing.) Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
 * Ben Jonson, Epigram CI.

 * Let the back and sides go bare, my boys, Let the hands and the feet gang cold; But give to belly, boys, beer enough, Whether it be new or old.
 * The Beggar. Old English Folk Song. Version in Cecil Sharp's Folk-Songs from Somerset.

 * For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
 * Xenophon, Anabasis, Book IV, Chapter V.

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 * God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
 * The quote, and its many variants, has been widely attributed to Franklin; however, there has never been an authoritative source for the quote, and research indicates that it is very likely a misquotation of Franklin's words regarding wine: "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." (see sourced section above for a more extensive quotation of this passage from a letter to André Morellet), written in 1779.

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Art Buchwald

Arthur "Art" Buchwald (20 October 1925 – 17 January 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long-running column in The Washington Post newspaper, which focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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 * I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
 * Quoted in Thompson, Hunter S., "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail," 1972.
 * I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.
 * Some Heady Phrases on Wine, New York Herald Tribune (1954)

 * A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
 * New York Herald Tribune (16 January 1958).

 * The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
 * On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).

 * Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
 * Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968).

 * People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
 * Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968).

 * You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
 * Interview in The New York Times Book Review (1985), as quoted in Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns (1990) by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308.

 * Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."
 * Time magazine (29 September 1986).

 * If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
 * International Herald Tribune (24 May 1989).

 * People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even." … For me, being funny is the best revenge.

 * Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
 * A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
 * Leaving Home (1995).

 * Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
 * As quoted in "Art Buchwald Celebrates His Life" a profile on CNN Newsroom (2 November 2006).

 * I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.
 * Comment to friends, as quoted in "Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81" by Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post  (18 January 2007).

Quotes about Buchwald

 * The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
 * Fred Allen, "Introduction to Art Buchwald", Paris after Dark (1954).

 * The bad boy tweaking the nose of the Establishment [with] the countenance of a Jewish leprechaun.
 * Ervin S. Duggan, in Washingtonian (January 1985).

 * What Art had was the gift of laughter — that's a rarity today. He could take simple ordinary things and make you laugh. God knows all of us need that. I've been with him in all kinds of situations, good and bad, triumph and tragedy but Art always was able to see a little wisp of humor in everything.
 * Jack Valenti, Associated Press report (18 January 2007).

 * Art was the Mark Twain of our time. For decades there was no better way to start the day than to open the morning paper to Art's column, laugh out loud and learn all over again to take the issues seriously in the world of politics, but not take yourself too seriously. The special art of Art Buchwald was to make even the worst of times better.
 * Ted Kennedy, Associated Press report (18 January 2007).

 * The joy of his column was not that it was side-splitting humor, but that he made you smile.
 * Ben Bradlee, as quoted in The New York Times (18 January 2007).

 * Three of us — Bill Styron, he and I — suffered depression simultaneously, so we walked around in the rain together on Martha's Vineyard and consoled each other... He did the best to make life palatable, to help you be optimistic, to let you know he believed you would beat it. We both did, and so did Bill. We named ourselves the 'Blues Brothers.'
 * Mike Wallace, as quoted in The New York Times (18 January 2007).

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Polyamory

Polyamory is the practice or lifestyle of being part of more than one long-term, intimate, and, often, sexual loving relationship at the same time, with the full knowledge and consent of all partners involved. Persons who consider themselves emotionally suited to such relationships may define themselves as polyamorous, often abbreviated to poly.

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 * Polyamory — that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.
 * John Perry Barlow, quoted in "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet" - interview with Aaron Davis in Planet JH Weekly (28 July 2005)

 * Marriage is only possible for me if it's an open marriage. A building situation where each helps the other grow. I've been dating younger men because they still have that spontaneity and creativity. But I haven't found anyone yet to have an open marriage with.
 * Suzy Chaffee, New Woman Doesn't Marry, Lawrence Daily Journal-World, (June 20, 1973).

 * As such, the Trinity can be a model for individuals who are polyamorous because the Trinity deconstructs the binary relationship model of marriage and domestic partnerships. Indeed, the radical love of the Trinity dissolves the boundaries between coupledom and singleness. Also, to the extent that each of the three persons of the Trinity are multigendered—as argued by Gavin D'Costa—then the Trinity is actually a polygendered or polysexual being itself.
 * Patrick S. Cheng, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology (2011), p. 59

 * I believe that trust is more important than monogamy.
 * Savage Garden (Daniel Jones and Darren Hayes) in "Affirmation" (1999)

 * There is a key trait in people who do polyamory well, and it's this: They are good at regulating their strong emotions. By that I mean, when something emotionally intense is happening to you, either good or bad, you're able to see it as part of a larger whole and keep it in perspective.
 * Mistress Matisse, in "Control Tower: Not Too Emo" in [[w:The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger] (31 January 2007)]

 * In my experience and observation, the following factors most positively influence the odds for [poly relationship] success: 1. General attitude of goodwill and a generosity of spirit 2. Willingness to be honest, especially when the news is likely to hurt 3. Independent spirit 4. Strong personal desire for a poly life 5. Reasonably good emotional intelligence and self-esteem 6. Reading poly literature and discussing it with partners
 * Letter from "Poly out East"
 * Claimed by polyamory activist/educator Anita Wagner in
 * Claimed by polyamory activist/educator Anita Wagner in

 * Repeatedly, research on CNM shows that couples with differing sexual interests report being better off when they have multiple sexual partners. “In a relationship often there is a discrepancy between both partners’ interests,” says Muise. “However, people with multiple partnerships might be more fulfilled overall. If you have the interest in being sexual with other people it can be healthy to explore that.”
 * William Park quoting Amy Muise, “The benefits of having many lovers”, BBC, (22 March 2020)

 * “For the people who wanted to open their relationship and who did end up doing it, their satisfaction was significantly higher,” says Samantha Joel, assistant professor of social psychology at Western University in London, Canada. “Meanwhile, for the people who thought about it but didn't, their satisfaction dipped, but barely significantly.” Joel suggests that the uplift in satisfaction among people who switched to CNM might have been the result of a dragging effect. A better quality of sex life with a secondary partner drags up satisfaction with the primary partner, because suddenly the pressure of one person having to provide all of their enjoyment is removed. “We know that when people are happier with their sex life they communicate better anyway,” says Joel. “But people in CNM report having open communication – it is difficult to be CNM if you are not talking about boundaries. Whereas in monogamous couples, those discussions about boundaries often don’t happen.”
 * William Park quoting Samantha Joel, “The benefits of having many lovers”, BBC, (22 March 2020)

 * What the psychological profiles of CNM people might suggest is that they have emotional needs that cannot be satisfied by one person. “People in poly relationships might have higher needs in general,” says Balzarini. “We find monogamous people are on an even keel in terms of their needs for nurturance and eroticism. But poly people have high highs and low lows. They might be people who need both things simultaneously and it is hard to experience those things with only one partner. A primary partner who is nurturing is unlikely to also be exciting in an erotic way.” That said, there is very little in the way of a profile that you can build about CNM people, according to Moors. She says that there is no correlation between age, income, location, education, race, ethnicity, religion or political affiliation and CNM in her research. People who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual are more likely to be CNM, but that is the only pattern. For something that seems to span all walks of life, there is still a relentless stigma associated with non-monogamous lifestyles. Moors gives the example of how normal it is to think of platonic or familial love as endless, yet for some reason we consider romantic love finite. “We already know how to have close loving relationships with multiple people,” she says. “But we are expected to believe that romantic love is limited? How many best mates do you have? Oh, that’s disgusting you have one too many? That would be a ridiculous thing to say.” We ask a lot from our partners. We expect them to be our life coach, best friend, confidant. “We don’t need all of those things from one person,” says Moors. Perhaps we would be better off by spreading our needs between more than one person.
 * William Park quoting Rhonda Balzarini & Amy Moors, “The benefits of having many lovers”, BBC, (22 March 2020)

 * No act of possession can be exercised on a free being; it is an unjust to own a wife monogamously as it is to own slaves. All men are born free, all are equal before the law; we must never lose sight of these principles. Hence, no sex is granted the legitimate right to seize the other sex exclusively, and never can any sex or any class possess the other arbitrarily.
 * Marquis de Sade, Philosophy of the Bedroom

 * The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
 * George Bernard Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903); this has also been paraphrased as: "Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."

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Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 – July 8, 1939) was a British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer.

Quotes

 * To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
 * Introduction to Huysman's A Rebours (Against the Grain) (1884)

 * The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
 * The New Spirit (1890)

 * 'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it.
 * Studies in Psychology (1897)

 * Every artist writes his own autobiography.
 * The New Spirit

 * If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
 * The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 1 (1912)

 * "Charm"—which means the power to effect work without employing brute force—is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
 * The Task of Social Hygiene, [HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=nAoAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22charm+which+means+the+power+to+effect+work+without+employing+brute+force+is+indispensable+to+women+charm+is+a+woman%27s+strength+just+as+strength+is+a+man%27s+charm%22&pg=PA81#v=onepage ch. 3]

 * There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
 * The Task of Social Hygiene, ch. 10

 * Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.
 * Impressions and Comments, series 3

 * The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.
 * (Attributed) Havelock Ellis, cited in

Impressions and Comments (1914)

 * The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.
 * It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.

Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922)

 * The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities...A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
 * Ch. 1

 * One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
 * Ch. 1

 * The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.
 * Ch. 3

 * All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
 * Ch. 7

 * The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
 * Ch. 7

The Dance of Life (1923)

 * The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
 * Ch. 2

 * Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
 * Ch. 2

 * The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
 * Ch. 3

 * Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
 * Ch. 3

 * In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
 * Ch. 3

 * The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
 * Ch. 3

 * A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
 * Ch. 5

 * The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
 * Ch. 5

 * What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
 * Ch. 6

 * The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
 * Ch. 7

Quotes about Havelock Ellis

 * 1919...Henri Bergson, Karl Barth, Ernst Cassirer, Havelock Ellis, Karl Jaspers, John Maynard Keynes, Rudolf Steiner—indelible figures—were all active in their various spheres.
 * Cynthia Ozick, Fame & Folly: Essays (1996)

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Talk:Nelson Mandela

Passion - Quote
There are plenty of sources on the web that claim Mandela said: "It always seems impossible until it is done." "There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." I love the quotes, but I can find no hard evidence of him having actually said that ever. Nobody can tell where or when or even if he truly said that. There's nothing to back it up. And, sadly, the web is so full of shit(just say it because you know you want to)that I could imagine this quote was just assigned to him to make it stand out.

Can anybody help out with the origin of the Quote?

suggestions
Mandela is one of the greatest leaders in the history of mankind and reading his quotes is very touching, especially the following: "No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

We should mention that the "deepest fear" quote, which is often attributed to him, is really from Marianne Williamson:

 * Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Education as a weapon
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela? Is this really from him? --Gbleem 00:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

 * In the transcript here, he uses that quote on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 18:28, March 24, 2011

 * This source indeed confirms that Madela mentioned:
 * Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world and is a powerful part of that world changing arsenal.
 * (Source: "Lighting your way to a better future : Speech delivered by Mr N R Mandela at launch of Mindset Network," July 16, 2003)
 * -- Mdd (talk) 00:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

 * This is confirmed in: Nelson Mandela, S. K. Hatang, Sahm Venter (2012) Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom. p. 101. And I will add this to the article. -- Mdd (talk) 00:21, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * However, according to the Susan Ratcliffe (2011) Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations. p. 137, Mandela mentioned this exact quote at a speech, Madison Park High School, Boston, 23 June 1990. -- Mdd (talk) 23:51, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

 * A 2013 article in the Boston Globe doesn't confirm Mandela was there this, but used slightly different words. The Boston Globe stated:
 * In his address, Mandela stressed the importance of education, saying he was "deeply concerned" so many students were dropping out of school.
 * "This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow," he told the students. He urged students to "try as much as possible to remain in school."
 * "Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use," he said to cheers.
 * Source: "Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit left lasting impression" by Peter Schworm on bostonglobe.com, December 7, 2013
 * -- Mdd (talk) 00:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Impossible quote
I have found numerous websites that attribute the phrase "It always seems impossible, until it is done". I think it was said in the new movie "Invictus". Is it trully his?

 * I was just checking in here very briefly and must be leaving soon, but a quick search reveals the earliest published citation to be found with Google Books is in Fat Into the Fire (2007), by David P. Morrow, p. 228. I would not consider this a highly reliable source, but its presence in such a source does indicate it might have been quoted in some newspapers prior to that. I don't have time to search for any of these right now, but will post the quote with the source which I found. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

 * The Quote Investigator (a trustworthy source) investigated this alleged quote and found that it was first attributed to Mandela in 2001. There is no evidence that he ever said it. See: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/05/done/. Potosino (talk) 12:01, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

First black president
I heard that in 1952 Mandela said "I will be the first black president of South Africa". Is this right? 41.245.202.98 12:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

On language

 * If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Could someone verify this quote? It is widely attributed to Mandela, but I have not been able to find the source. Camenae 02:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Boy, it's a 10-year wait and I'm going to make it worth it. Apparently, it is an 'internationalization' of something he really said about his experience in communicating with the Afrikaner guards while in prison: “Because when you speak a language, English, well many people understand you, including Afrikaners, but when you speak Afrikaans, you know you go straight to their hearts.”, recorded from an interview in the book Nelson Mandela by Himself. 175.139.64.200 11:55, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Summary
Nelson Mandela may have quoted people but what is the shame in that? He has made History, he lives History, he is History. Being quoted by Mandela would be the highest of compliments. He himself said that "A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution".

Unsourced
Did Nelson Mandela truly say this of his time in prison? "As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison." Many blogs and several newspaper articles cite this quote, but the origins are indefinite.

 * In her book Living History (2003), Hillary Clinton quotes Mandela as saying this to her on the day he was released from prison (11 Feb 1990): "The day his imprisonment ended, he told me, 'as I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.' --Hughh (talk) 21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Mandela's grandson Kweku Mandela gives the same [undated] quote in a HuffPost blog post dated 19 Mar 2014.--Hughh (talk) 19:24, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Mandela on the Palestinians in 1997
The quote was distorted and contained half sentences from two different paragraphs. I fixed this by writing the two paragraph as they are written in the Speech made by Mandela on the ANC website:

"When in 1977, the United Nations passed the resolution inaugurating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, it was asserting the recognition that injustice and gross human rights violations were being perpetrated in Palestine. In the same period, the UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system.

But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians; without the resolution of conflicts in East Timor, the Sudan and other parts of the world." http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=3384

Two dead links
Hi there. I notice that there are two links in the page that are dead. The ones of Mandela's: The message I got is the following: "Oops the page requested can not be found. You probably got here via an outdated link."
 * Inaugural speech (1994)
 * & Inaugural celebration address (1994)

Hope someone can help. Thanks. --Goose friend (talk) 00:53, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Gandhi quote on the first picture of the page
It may be the case that Mandela misquoted Gandhi in his interview, but as can be seen in Gandhi's Wikiquote page, the line mentioned does not exist.

I am familiar to a similar quotation by Gandhi, however, which says "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent."

It is very different from the version that would have been quoted by Mandela "Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor..."

In the first, violence is recognized as valuable for the sake of political positioning, but never recommended over non-violence. In Mandela's version, it seems to be easily interpretable (and even a suggestion) that non-violence and pacifism would be conceivable as cowardice. Additionaly, Gandhi does not legitimize the use of weapons, just of kinds of violence, while Mandela speaks explicitly of them.

I don't know if Mandela's quote is right, but I suppose it is. Even so, I think a quote that includes a misquoted quote shouldn't have a spotlight position in a Quote encyclopedia... Would someone change the picture's quote? -Japaa

 * The quote by Mandela of Gandhi is fairly accurate, as it most likely derives from Gandhi's essay "The Doctrine Of The Sword", in Young India (11 August 1920) which I have now added a section for upon the Gandhi page. Certainly neither Gandhi nor Mandela equate non-violence with cowardice, and both recognize that there is a weakness and desperation evident in the use of violence — but neither absolutely renounce or denounce violence against those who would resolutely persist in exploiting many of the apparent or actual weaknesses of others unjustly. BOTH assert the right of people to defend themselves and others against unjust assaults, even while recommending policies of non-violent resistance to those with the strength to manifest it, and forgiveness towards those who have erred in the past, and whose policies or practices of injustice are no longer a major threat to evident and manifest strength. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:11, 8 December 2013 (UTC) + tweaks

 * Thank you for your clarification, it seems to make all sense to me now. As it is said, 'the reaction of the opressed can't be confounded with the opressor's violence'. This session might be erased if it is needed! Japaa

Great Man Nelson Mandela
I would like to have had the honor to have met Nelson Mandela, i think he was funny and to the point by reading the articles. I was just a stupid white person just to believe what we were told, I like the words used "yesterday he was a terrorist but today people are hugging him" i agree with all the facts of America, Americans have mislead God's people wrong, they just want to rule the world. Well let me get straight to the point, Nelson Mandela is the Messiah "God's Servant" THE BRANCH. proof in the Old Testament. 10/04/2018 Cathy--102.249.189.142 12:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

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Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 1848) was an American artist and poet.

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 * It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven.  It was upon Mount Horeb that Elijah experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice.  That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
 * Essay on American Scenery in American Monthly Magazine (January 1836)

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Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress.

Quotes

 * I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
 * As quoted in Valentines & Vitriol (1977) by Rex Reed

 * I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
 * Quoted by A. E. Hotchner in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979), p. 9

 * I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
 * As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 63.

 * I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
 * As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 76.

 * My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
 * As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 239.

 * A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
 * Quoted on Good Morning, America  ABC TV (10 August 1979).

 * Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
 * As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green, p. 340.

 * Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
 * As quoted in  Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell

 * Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
 * As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

 * There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
 * As quoted in Hope Notes : 52 Meditations to Nudge Your World (2004) by Wayne Willis, p. 11.

 * Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one. Being a Hollywood beauty was a mixed blessing. Men are men, with all that testosterone, and when a pretty girl comes in front of them what can you expect? The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.
 * As quoted in Bombshell (2004) by Lynda Curnyn, p. 196.

 * After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
 * Quoted in Words of Wisdom and Quotables Quotes (2007) by Dr. A.N.P. Ummerkutty.

 * My mother’s feelings were all closed off inside herself…I was allowed to be a part of it, never in a good way, never like mother and daughter.
 * On channeling her mother Romilda for her role in the film “The Life Ahead” in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)

 * I wanted to be able to walk into the kind of places my father walked into. I wanted to understand what it was like to live like he did. I wanted reasons. I wanted answers…But I got nowhere.
 * On wanting the financial security that her biological father deprived her and her family in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)

 * Not at first. She was against new things. She thought I would never be successful, and that was wrong, she was wrong. Later she started to believe that I could maybe be somebody. But it was always a big maybe. To her, the life that I wanted, it was all a dream. And she didn’t believe in dreams.
 * On whether her mother, who had entertainment aspirations of her own, was pleased with Loren’s ascent in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)

 * Naples is so strong, so vital. It’s about music and dance. Books and books of history. Read all the books first and then we can talk.
 * On her view of the city of Naples in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)

 * Yes, well, maybe sometimes. But then I say to myself: ‘Shut up. Be strong. Just keep going and try. Sometimes you make mistakes and sometimes you win.’ I made some mistakes,”…But still I won.
 * On if she ever felt any self-doubt in “Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'” in The Guardian (2020 Nov 6)

Quotes about Sophia Loren

 * Sophia Loren, my favorite actress
 * Liana Badr Interview with Words Without Borders (2016) translated from the Arabic by Suja Sawafta

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Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers (born Billy Don; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. He served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary under the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967. He was a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, from 1967-1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator for ten years. Moyers has been extensively involved with public broadcasting, producing documentaries and news journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees for his investigative journalism and civic activities. He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the corporately structured U.S. news media.

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 * [ George Washington ] in uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life — one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. Events enlarged his embrace to a wholly new idea of nation — the United States of America. But less than a century later his descendant by marriage could not slip the more parochial tether. In the halls of the family home standing on the hill above us, General Robert E. Lee paced back and forth as he weighed the offer of Abraham Lincoln to take command of the Union Army on the eve of the Civil War. Lee turned the offer down and that evening took the train to Richmond. His country was still Virginia. We struggle today with the imperative of a new patriotism and citizenship. The Peace Corps has been showing us the way, and the volunteers and staff whom we honor this morning are the vanguard of that journey.
 * "At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 26
 * As every volunteer testifies, the Peace Corps is more than a program or mission. It is a way of being in the world. This is a conservative notion because it holds dear the ground of one's own being — the culture and customs that gave meaning to a particular life. But it is a liberal notion for respecting the ground revered by others. This double helix in America's DNA may yet be the source of a new political and patriotism that could save us from toxic self-absorption.
 * "At Large", speech at the Peace Corps twenty-fifth anniversary memorial service (21 September 1986), published in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 27
 * Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
 * "The Big Story", speech to the Texas State Historical Association (7 March 1997), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 131
 * Conservatives — or better, pro-corporate apologists — hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right … This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove — the reputed brain of George W. Bush — as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
 * Speech to the "Take Back America" Conference (Video: 10 June 2003); "Degenerate and unlovely age" is a quotation from Charles Eliot Norton
 * The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won … Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.
 * Interview, Buzzflash, 28 October 2003)
 * No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.
 * On polls showing that many Americans would support a restriction of free speech especially if against speech held to be unpatriotic, in a Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists (11 September 2004)

 * This "zeal for secrecy" I am talking about — and I have barely touched the surface — adds up to a victory for the terrorists. When they plunged those hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon three years ago this morning, they were out to hijack our Gross National Psychology. If they could fill our psyche with fear — as if the imagination of each one of us were Afghanistan and they were the Taliban — they could deprive us of the trust and confidence required for a free society to work. They could prevent us from ever again believing in a safe, decent or just world and from working to bring it about. By pillaging and plundering our peace of mind they could panic us into abandoning those unique freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of the press — that constitute the ability of democracy to self-correct and turn the ship of state before it hits the iceberg.
 * Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists (11 September 2004)
 * On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths — half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
 * Concerning right-wing radio shortly before the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, onNOW (17 December 2004)

 * Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
 * Speech at the National Conference on Media Reform (15 May 2005)
 * A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans, liberals & conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
 * Speech at the National Conference on Media Reform (15 May 2005)
 * "News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity."
 * Quoting an adage widely attributed to the newspaper-owner Lord Northcliffe, in a speech at the National Conference on Media Reform (15 May 2005)
 * Bullies — political bullies, economic bullies, and religious bullies — cannot be appeased; they have to be opposed with courage, clarity, and conviction. This is never easy. These Fanaticism|true believers don't fight fair. Robert's Rules of Order is not one of their holy texts.
 * "The Sport of God", speech accepting the Union Medal of the Union Theological Seminary (7 September 2005), as quoted Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 375
 * All my life I've prayed the Lord's Prayer, but I've never prayed, "Give me this day my daily bread." It is always, "Give us this day our daily bread." Bread and life are shared realities. They do not happen in isolation. Civilization is an unnatural act. We have to make it happen, you and I, together with all the other strangers.
 * "Pass the Bread", baccalaureate address at Hamilton College (20 May 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 385
 * For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. … There was no Plato without Socrates, and no John Coltrane without Miles Davis.
 * "America 101"
 * There is a pdf version of this speech here, speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Council of Great City Schools (27 October 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 237
 * In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
 * "The Meaning of Freedom", Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy (15 November 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 78
 * Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control — a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
 * "For America's Sake" speech (12 December 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 17
 * The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
 * "For America's Sake" speech (12 December 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 21
 * Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy: the rubber stamp.
 * "The Power of Democracy", speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (7 February 2007), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 92
 * Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means — what it bestows on us — the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
 * "The Power of Democracy", speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (7 February 2007), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 92

Plutocracy is not an American word but it's become an American phenomenon. Back in the fall of 2005, the Wall Street giant Citigroup even coined a variation on it, plutonomy, an economic system where the privileged few make sure the rich get richer with government on their side. By the next spring, Citigroup decided the time had come to publicly "bang the drum on plutonomy." … over the past 30 years the plutocrats, or plutonomists — choose your poison — have used their vastly increased wealth to capture the flag and assure the government does their bidding. … This marriage of money and politics has produced an America of gross inequality at the top and low social mobility at the bottom, with little but anxiety and dread in between, as middle class Americans feel the ground falling out from under their feet. … Like those populists of that earlier era, millions of Americans have awakened to a sobering reality: they live in a plutocracy, where they are disposable. Then, the remedy was a popular insurgency that ignited the spark of democracy. Now we have come to another parting of the ways, and once again the fate and character of our country are up for grabs. … Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
 * In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
 * "Help", speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (3 March 2007), in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 99
 * [Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
 * "Help", speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (3 March 2007), in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 111
 * Terms like "liberty" and "individual freedom" invoked by generations of Americans who battled to widen the 1787 promise to "promote the general welfare" have been perverted to create a government primarily dedicated to the state and the political class that runs it. Yes, Virginia, there is a class war and ordinary people are losing it.
 * Moyers on Democracy (2008), Introduction, p. 2
 * The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth" are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
 * Moyers on Democracy (2008), Introduction, p. 3
 * People who don't believe in government are likely to defile government.
 * Commenting on the Bush Administration and the Harding Administration in an Interview on Fresh Air (5 November 2008)
 * Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix. Plutocracy, the rule of the rich, political power controlled by the wealthy.
 * Last episode of Bill Moyers Journal (30 April 2010) · video
 * One of the great reporters of the 20th century, I.F. Stone, told journalism students never to forget that "All governments lie." He could speak with authority, having spent seven decades exposing deception and official lies by digging deep into government documents and transcripts. He gained his greatest fame and impact publishing the newsletter called "I.F. Stone's Weekly," taking on McCarthyism, racism in the military, and the Vietnam War. "In this age of corporation men," he wrote in 1963, "I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise." This critically acclaimed documentary, produced in 1973, offered an inside look at how Izzy Stone worked.
 * Bill Moyers talks with alternative media heavyweights Glenn Greenwald  and  Amy Goodman about what can and can't be addressed in big corporate media,  PBS.org  (3 April 2009)
 * Historian and activist Howard Zinn died in 2010, and the progressive world greatly misses his spirit and guidance. One wonders what he’d have to say about America today — one in which senators create legislation in secret and a president denigrates foes and allies alike via Twitter. What would he, a former Cub Scout, think about the president’s recent speech in which he exhorted Boy Scouts to boo a previous president? We can be pretty sure that he’d be dismayed and disgusted by an America where CEOs make 271 times the pay of an average worker... He’d certainly be no fan of a culture that made serious, though unsuccessful, attempts to ban his signature work, A People’s History of the United States.
 * What Would Howard Zinn Say? (27 July 2017)

Quotes about Bill Moyers

 * Journalist Bill Moyers...opened Saturday with a plenary address, saying: “Our dominant media are ultimately accountable only to corporate boards whose mission is not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the whole body of our republic, but the aggrandizement of corporate executives and shareholders.”
 * Amy Goodman “This Way to Better Media” article (2008)

 * I was also pleased to have been on the Bill Moyers program on PBS on several occasions.
 * Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)

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Tom DeLay

Thomas Dale DeLay (born 1947) was a Republican politician from Texas who served as United States Congressman (1978–2006), Majority Whip (1994–2002), and House Majority Leader (2002–2005).

1990s

 * So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like [myself].
 * On why he and Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Tim Fleck, January 7, 1999, "Which Bug Gets the Gas?" Houston Press.

 * We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation.
 * On bipartisanship ~ From the Houston Chronicle 1991 April 14.

 * The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.
 * Associated Press 1995 July 29.

 * It's never been proven that air toxics [sic] are hazardous to people.
 * From the Houston Chronicle 1990 October 27.

 * I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution.
 * From Talk Back Live on CNN 1995 December 19.

 * Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
 * From the Congressional Record, H3706 [1996 April 23].

 * Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future.  And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of.
 * As reported from "Late Edition" on CNN 1997 April 6.

 * The judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution. (If they don't behave) we're going to go after them in a big way.
 * On checks and balances ~ From the Washington Post 1997 September 14.

 * Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.
 * on floor of House of Representatives, quoted in
 * Words originally written by Addison Dawson, read into the Congressional Record by DeLay (June 16, 1999).

2000s

 * Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
 * From a speech made to bankers March 12, 2003

 * I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.
 * To a TV preachers’ Congressional luncheon, July 2001.

 * You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
 * Meet the Press, December 12, 2003

 * Kofi Annan's kangaroo court...a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.
 * On the International Criminal Court ~ AP [July 16, 2004]

 * My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
 * On the State of Israel (August 31, 2004)

 * I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can take care of it. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can’t provide stability, I’m not saying that... It does take a father, though.
 * On the role of women in the home ~ From a radio interview. His wife, Christine DeLay, quickly asked to "edit this out," then turned to Tom and said: "This is not a good thing for you to be saying."

 * Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?
 * On the refugees of Hurricane Katrina ~ As reported in the Washington Post, (September 10, 2005)

 * I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position as majority leader pursuant to rules of the House Republican Conference and the actions of the Travis County district attorney today.
 * On his indictment for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme (September 28, 2005)

 * I am the Federal Government.
 * To a waitress who asked him to put out his cigar because smoking in a restaurant in Washington is against Federal law.

 * After many weeks of personal prayerful thinking and analysis, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to close this public service chapter of my life. It’s time to begin opening new chapters and pursuing new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from outside the arena of the U.S. House of Representatives...I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative, personal campaign....I just realized that my constituents don't deserve this, they deserve a Republican. I think I could have won this seat but it would have been nasty, it would have cost a fortune to do it. The challenge has always been in the interest of the constituents' cause and the Republican majority. I'm more interested in growing the Republican majority than my own future.
 * Announcing his resignation from the House of Representatives, April 4, 2006)

 * I’ve been indicted for rules that don’t even exist.
 * Interview with The Hill, (December 11, 2006)

 * It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this.
 * Appearing on Hannity and Colmes, (December 12, 2006)

 * If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.
 * From a speech at the 2007 College Republican National Convention in Washington, DC.

2010s

 * We've already found a secret memo coming out of the Justice Department. They're now going to go after 12 new perversions, things like bestiality, polygamy, having sex with little boys and making that legal. Not only that, but they have a whole list of strategies to go after the churches, the pastors, and any businesses that tries to assert their religious liberty. This is coming and it's coming like a tidal wave.
 * , quoted in

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Personal relationship

Quotations on personal relationships.

Quotes

 * Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.
 * E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book, p. 45

 * Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
 * E. M. Forster, Selected Letters: Letter 231, to W. J. H. Sprott, 28 June 1923

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That '70s Show

 * Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | Main

That '70s Show (1998–2006) is an American television sitcom centered on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin during the late 1970s.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8

Cast

 * Topher Grace - Eric Forman (Season 1-8)
 * Laura Prepon - Donna Pinciotti (Season 1-8)
 * Danny Masterson - Steven Hyde (Season 1-8)
 * Ashton Kutcher - Michael Kelso (Season 1-8)
 * Mila Kunis - Jackie Burkhart (Season 1-8)
 * Wilmer Valderrama - Fez (Season 1-8)
 * Josh Meyers - Randy Pearson (Season 8)
 * Debra Jo Rupp - Kitty Forman (Season 1-8)
 * Kurtwood Smith - Reginald "Red" Forman (Season 1-8)
 * Don Stark - Bob Pinciotti (Season 1-8)
 * Tanya Roberts - Midge Pinciotti (Season 1-3, 6 & 7)
 * Lisa Robin Kelly - Laurie Forman (Season 1-3 & 5)
 * Tommy Chong - Leo (Season 2-4, 7 & 8)

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