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Thomas Fuller (writer)

 * For the earlier author of The Worthies of England, see Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) was an English physician, writer and adage collector.

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

 * Good Reader, I suspect I may have written some Things twice; if not the same in Words, yet in Sense, which I desire you to pass by favourably; forasmuch as you may well think, it was as difficult and dull a Thing for me, in so great a Number of independent Sentences, to find out the Repetitions, as it would be in a vast Heap of different Coins and Medals, confusedly thrown together, to pick out here and there one that bore the same and like Inscription, with some other among them. Besides the Pains, such a Search would cost me more Time, than I can afford it; for my Glass of Life running now low, I must not suffer one Sand to fall in waste, nor spend one Minute in picking of Straws. And moreover, my aged Eyes being grown weak and dim, I fear they will become quite dark, by much perusing and poring; or at least so far, so as to render me unable to perfect several Papers now lying by me, which I would willingly make a Present of to you.
 * Excerpt from Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II, To the Reader (Prefatory Remarks). (where is the actual quote?)

 * 1772. Let thy Vices die before thee.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) : Let thy vices die before thee.

 * 1800. Make not a Jest of another Man's Infirmity. Remember thy own.
 * 1814. Always tell the Truth : where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.

 * 1817. Keep thy eyes wide open before Marriage ; and half shut afterward.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) : Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

 * 1887. Think thyself happy if thou hast one true Friend; never think of finding another.
 * 1943. If thou canst not find Tranquility in thyself; 'twill be to little Purpose to seek it anywhere else.
 * 1953. Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
 * 1964. If thou wilt have no Difference with thy Friends; sell them not Horses, nor Goods; and buy nothing of them.
 * 1978. If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.
 * 2001. Find out thy own Mistakes, and Failings, in order to amend them. A Disease known is half cured.
 * 2021. Avoid knowing more than thou needest: Secrets are troublesome Burthens to such as are not interested in them.
 * 2023. Assist the afflicted with something real, if thou canst; As for Tears they are but Water, what good can they do?
 * 2043. He that advised thee not to let the Sun set in thine anger, did not command thee to trust a deceiving Enemy next Morning.

 * 2048. Report not an ill Thing that thou thy self knowest not, but by the Report of a Man, who may lie or aggravate the Matter.
 * 2057. Drive away and never endure Tale-bearers : Whoever entertains thee with the Faults of others, designs to serve thee in the same Kind.
 * 2168. 'Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.
 * 2320. Trust not an Enemy, because thou hast done him good Offices: for Men are naturally more prone to revenge Injuries, than to requite Kindnesses.
 * 2325. Squander not away thy life in Pastimes: There’s but little need to drive away Time, which is ever flying away so swiftly of itself; and when once gone is gone for ever.

 * 2330. Live not to thyself alone; but have it in Mind, that we are all Members of one Body: and it is as natural to help one another, as for the Hands to help the Feet; and the Eyes the Hands.
 * 2446. The Word Friend is a common Name, and appropriated by most People ; but believe me, thou wilt scarce ever find a Man that gives solid Proof of a true, unfeigned, and uninterested Friendship.
 * 2454. If any one giveth thee excessive Praises more than can handsomely belong to thee, thou art to think of him, that he taketh thee for vain and credulous, and easy to be deceived, and effectually a Fool.
 * 2462. Thou canst scarcely be truly wise till thou hast been deceived. Thy own Errors will teach thee more Prudence, than the grave Precepts, and even Examples of others.
 * 2463. If thou canst but live free from Debt and Want, 'tis not absolutely necessary to care for more : for all the rest, truly speaking, is but Vanity, and for the most part Vexation too.
 * 2489. Thou art not Master of what thou hast spoken, but mayest dispose of what thou hast not spoken as thou pleasest, and canst say it, or not say it, as thou wilt.
 * 2545. Never defame or accuse any, except thou beest sure and certain of the Fact, and canst speak home to the Purpose : for undoubtful Accusations leave a Stain behind them ; and after prove indelible Injuries to the party accused.
 * 2555. When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little ; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.
 * 2579. If thou findest thou canst not suffer the Impertinencies, Follies, and ill Usages of the World, withdraw from it ; but first be sure thou canst bear with thyself.
 * 2591. If I leave thee a moderate Fortune, as my Father left me, and thou provest wise and virtuous, it will be sufficient. It's none of the least of God's Favours, that Wealth comes not trolling in upon us ; for many of us should have been worse, if our Estates had been better.
 * These precepts were first collected as advice for Fuller's son John.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.

 * 2593. A prudent and discreet Silence will be sometimes more to thy Advantage, than the most witty expression, or even the best contrived Sincerity. A Man often repents that he has spoken, but seldom that he has held his Tongue.
 * 2597. Keep thy Judgment to thyself. Why should others know what thou art? or paraphrase upon thy Opinion? Herein thou hast the Advantage of changing thy Mind when thou art mistaken, and yet continue ( for ought others know ) in the same Mind.
 * 2609. Never think that the Things thou wantest will cure thee of thy Discontents ; for they will enlarge thy Desires, and make the Wounds wider. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.

 * 2683. Have a Care of him that is slow to anger, for like as green Wood which is long in kindling, continueth hot longer than the dry, if it have once taken Fire : So that Man, who is not easily moved is more hard to be pacify'd, than he that is quickly provoked.
 * 2732. Thou knowest not thy own Strength for want of trying it, and upon that Account thinkest thyself really unable to do many Things which Experience would convince thee, thou hast more Ability to effect, than thou hast Will to attempt.
 * 2742. Shew not thyself joyful and pleased at the Misfortunes of any Man, tho' thou hatest him ; It argues a mischevious Mind, and that thou hadst a Desire to have done it thyself, if thou hadst had Power or Opportunity to thy Will.
 * 2762. In Matters of Slander, thou oughtest to suspend thy Judgment, and examine the Thing ; and not, as the common Custom is, persuade thyself, that common Report is sufficient warrant for the Truth of the Matters. Popular Opinion is the greatest Lie in the World.
 * 2763. Avoid Men that are Hot and Quarrelsome ; they will affront thee for nothing, and urge Things beyond Reason and Measure. They will bring thee into Troubles, which thou wilt not easily get out of. Keeping Company with such is living with Wolves, Bears, and Tygers.
 * 2826. Provoke not even a patient Man too far ; extreme Sufferance when it comes to dissolve, breaks out into the most severe Revenge ; for taking Fire at last, Anger and Fury being combined into one, discharge their utmost Force at the first Blast. Irarumque omnes effundit habenas.
 * Latin fragment from Vergil's Aeneid, Book XII, line 499 : ‘He threw away all restraint on his anger.’
 * 2858. By Trifles and unheeded common Things of Life, thou may'st discover Mens Qualities, Tempers, and Inclinations, better than by their greater Actions : Because in Matters of Importance they strain themselves, but in lesser Things they heedlessly follow the Current of their own Natures.
 * 2915. Suffer a Friend to reprove thee, and thank him heartily for it : 'Tis a Happiness for a Man that he can be reproved when he does amiss, and be recalled when he runs wrong. Princes are deprived of that Benefit : for they converse familiarly but with very few Persons, and those make it their only Business to humour them.
 * 2986. See that thou be alway a doing of something, and be ever ashamed to catch thyself idle : The idle man is content to anticipate Death, by being out of Motion ; but high Souls, like the Heaven they come from, move continually, and are uncapable of Rest, until they rest there.
 * 3036. As he that doth not eat when he should, may have no Stomach when he is weak, but presently vomits up his Food again ; so if thou studiest not the Art of Patience, and preparest not thy mind before-hand, and takest not in Grounds of Consolation, till thou art in Troubles, and hast need of great Comfort, thou wilt find thy Soul very impatient of Remedies, and 'twill be irksome to thee but even to read such Things as should quiet thee.
 * 3064. Be not always hot, and hasty in managing thy Affairs. Prudent Pauses forward Business : There is sometimes more Skill shewed by a Physician in not Prescribing, than in Prescribing. And there is no better Remedy for some Diseases, than to let them alone : for unseasonable meddling with them, may hinder their proceeding to a Crisis, and at long Run they will mend of themselves.
 * 3072. Thou may'st extract an Antidote out of a Viper, and Good out of an Enemy. An Enemy will tell thee more truly of thy Imperfections, than the best of Friends will adventure to do, or ourselves (being partial to ourselves)will be able to discern : And this may be apply'd as precious Balm, to heal the Wounds our Folly, or Oversight have given our Reputation, by guarding our Actions for the future. And this is far better, than to be flattered into Pride, and Carelessness.
 * 3082. To what Purpose shouldest thou seek great Things for thyself in the World? or having obtained them, prize them at any considerable Rate? or value thyself upon them? seeing thou knowest not, but this Night thy Soul may be required of thee, when thou shalt be divested of them all. 'Twould be as vain and unreasonable, as for a Traveler, that is to stay at his Inn but for a night, to take great Thought and Pains about furnishing and adorning his Chamber, which the next Morning he must leave to the next Comer.
 * 3135. Every one is for denying, extenuating, or throwing the Blame on others, and never will confess a Fault, and take it upon himself ; but this, instead of getting it excused and pardoned aggravates it, and makes it worse, and angers the Party concerned, and so it doth Mischief instead of Good. I advise therefore (unless it be a furious, unforgiving Person, and the Thing be a Crime that must not be owned) frankly to own it, to shew how thou wast brought into it, and wish thou hadst not done it. It's likely this ingenuous dealing and throwing thyself upon his Kindness, may work upon his good Nature, and so the storm may pass off without more Mischief ; but this must be managed artfully in a middle Way between Sneaking and Arrogancy.

Gnomologia (1732)

 * All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of myself, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving. Among other things, I wrote out Apothegms, Maxims, Proverbs, acute Expressions, vulgar Sayings, &c. And having at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the People.
 * Excerpt from Gnomologia, To the Reader (Prefatory Remarks).

 * 62. A Crowd is not Company.
 * 92. A Father is a Treasure, a Brother a Comfort ; but a Friend is both.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : A Father's a Treasure; a Brother's a Comfort; a Friend is both.
 * 98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.
 * 108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.

 * 120. A Friend to all, is a Friend to none.
 * 146. A good Example is the best Sermon.
 * 172. A good Reputation is a fair Estate.
 * 241. A light Purse makes a heavy Heart.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : Light purse, heavy heart.

 * 270. A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.
 * 271. A Man apt to promise, is apt to forget.
 * 283. A Man in Passion rides a Horse that runs away with him.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : A Man in a Passion rides a mad Horse.

 * 284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.
 * 294. A Man may lead his Horse to Water, but cannot make him drink.
 * 300. A Man may say too much even upon the best of Subjects.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : You may talk too much on the best of subjects.

 * 310. A Man surprized is half beaten.
 * 331. A Mouse in Time may shear a Cable asunder.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

 * 342. A Penny sav'd is Two-pence got.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A Penny sav'd is Twopence clear.

 * 350. A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A pin a day is a Groat a Year.

 * 407. A small Leak will sink a great Ship.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Beware of little Expences, a small Leak will sink a great Ship.

 * 504. All between the Cradle and the Coffin is uncertain.
 * 507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.
 * 509. All complain of want of Memory, but none of want of Judgment.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.

 * 539. All Men think their Enemies ill Men.
 * 542. All Saint without, all Devil within.
 * 547. All Temptations are founded either in Hope or Fear.
 * 560. All things are difficult, before they are easy.

 * 569. All Women are good ; viz. good for something, or good for nothing.
 * 598. An empty Sack cannot stand upright.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : An empty bag will not stand upright.

 * 613. An Hour may destroy what an Age was a building.
 * 620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.
 * 639. An Oak is not fell'd at one Chop.
 * 673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.
 * 685. As good eat the Devil as the Broth he's boil'd in.
 * 733. As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Hatred.

 * 743. As Virtue is its own Reward, so Vice is its own Punishment.
 * 754. Absence cools moderate Passions, but inflames violent ones.
 * 757. Abused Patience turns to Fury.
 * 803. Antiquity cannot privilege an Error, nor Novelty prejudice a Truth.
 * 804. Antiquity is not always a Mark of Verity.
 * 812. Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his Inclinations.
 * 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.

 * 840. Barefoot must not go among Thorns.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot., Poor Richard's Almanack (1742) : He that sows thorns, should not go barefoot., and Poor Richard's Almanack (1756) : He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

 * 849. Be as you would seem to be.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : What you would seem to be, be really.

 * 860. Better abridge petty Charges, than stoop to petty Gettings.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) :  'Tis less discredit to abridge petty charges, than to stoop to petty Gettings.

 * 872. Better be alone than in bad Company.
 * 892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.

 * 903. Better have an old Man to humour, than a young Rake to break your Heart.
 * 911. Better late than never.
 * 950. Beauty is but Skin deep ; within is Filth and Putrefaction.
 * 959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.
 * 961. Beggars and Borrowers must be no Chusers.
 * 977. Beware of no Man more than thy self.
 * 1006. Boldness in Business is the first, second, and third thing.
 * 1048. Call your Husband Cuckold in Jest and he'll ne'er suspect you.
 * 1090. Cheat me in the Price, but not in the Goods.
 * 1092. Children and Fools tell Truth.

 * 1125. Command your Wealth, else that will command you.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.

 * 1131. Company in Misery makes it light.
 * 1134. Comparisons are odious.
 * 1154. Content is the Philosopher’s Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : Content is the Philosopher’s Stone, that turns all it touches into Gold.

 * 1185. Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.
 * 1200. Craft must have Clothes ; but Truth loves to go naked.
 * 1223. Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.
 * 1226. Custom without Reason, is but an ancient Error.

 * 1345. Drunkenness turns a Man out of himself, and leaves a Beast in his room.
 * 1370. Enough's as good as a Feast.
 * 1412. Every Cock is proud on his own Dunghill.
 * 1415. Every Dog has its Day ; and every Man his Hour.
 * 1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.
 * 1536. Fine Cloaths wear soonest out of Fashion.
 * 1537. Fine Cloth is never out of Fashion.
 * 1544. Fish and Guests smell at three Days old.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.

 * 1577. Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

 * 1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear.
 * Similarly in French: Les fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.

 * 1590. For Fashion's sake, as Dogs go to Church.
 * 1596. For want of a Nail the Shoe is lost ; for want of a Shoe the Horse is lost ; for want of a Horse the Man is lost.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1752) : For Want of a Nail the Shoe is lost; for want of a Shoe, the Horse is Lost; for want of a Horse the Rider is lost. ; also Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : For Want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe, the Horse was Lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.

 * 1597. For whom does the blind Man's Wife paint her self?
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : Why does the blind man's wife paint herself?

 * 1599. Fortune favours Fools.
 * 1657. Give him but Rope enough, and he'll hang himself.
 * 1659. Give not Pearls to the Hogs.
 * 1675. God help the Rich ; the Poor can beg.
 * 1688. God sends Meat, and the Devil sends Cooks.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Bad Commentators spoil the best of books, So God sends meat (they say) the devil cooks.

 * 1752. Great and Good are seldom the same Man.
 * 1781. Half a Loaf is better than no Bread.
 * 1805. Hatred is blind, as well as Love.

 * 1936. He is not laughed at, that laughs at himself first.
 * 1961. He knows which Side of his Bread is butter'd.
 * 2018. He set my House afire, only to roast his Eggs.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Pray don't burn my House to roast your Eggs.

 * 2033. He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.
 * 2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.
 * 2085. He that does you a very ill Turn, will never forgive you.

 * 2144. He that has no Fools, Knaves nor Beggars in his Family, was begot by a Flash of Lightning.
 * 2155. He that hath a Head of Wax, must not walk in the Sun.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

 * 2194. He that is too proud to ask, is too good to receive.
 * 2216. He that lies down with the Dogs, must rise with the fleas.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

 * 2222. He that lives on Hope, has but a slender diet.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting.

 * 2232. He that makes himself an Ass, must not take it ill, if Men ride him.
 * 2245. He that payeth beforehand, shall have his Work ill done.
 * 2248. He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself.
 * 2289. He that scattereth Thorns, must not go Barefoot.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot.

 * 2308. He that spares the Bad, injures the Good.
 * 2350. He that will not be counselled, cannot be helped.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : He that won't be counsell'd, can't be help'd.

 * 2420. He wrongs not an old Man, who steals his Supper from him.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong.

 * 2437. He's a Friend to none, that is a Friend to all.
 * 2445. He's a Slave, that cannot command himself.
 * 2523. Home is home, be it never so homely.
 * 2534. Honesty is the best Policy.
 * 2541. Hope is a good Breakfast, but a bad Supper.
 * 2542. Hope is as cheap as Despair.
 * 2569. Hunger is the best Sauce.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Hunger is the best Pickle.

 * 2571. Hunger scarce kills any ; but Gluttony and Drunkenness, Multitudes.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000.

 * 2580. Hypocrisy is a Sort of Homage, that Vice pays to Virtue.
 * 2592. I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

 * 2629. I took him for a Worm ; but he prov'd a Serpent.

 * 2649. I will not touch her with a Pair of Tongs.
 * 2666. If Afflictions refine some, they consume others.
 * 2707. If the Mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the Mountain.
 * 2759. If you have no Enemies, it’s a sign Fortune has forgot you.
 * 2782. If you run after two Hares, you will catch neither.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog, and Poor Richard's Almanack ( 1737) : He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one and lets t'other go.

 * 2788. If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.
 * 2801. If you would know the value of a Ducat, try to borrow one.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1754) : If you'd know the Value of Money, go and borrow some.

 * 2863. It is a long Lane that never turns.
 * 2911. It is as natural to die, as to be born.
 * 2916. It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

 * 2942. It is good to have two Strings to one's Bow.
 * 2968. It is in vain to mislike the current Fashion.
 * 2982. It is my own Fault, if I am deceived by the same Man twice.
 * 2994. It is not a sign of Humility to declaim against Pride.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Declaiming against pride, is not always a Sign of Humility.

 * 3006. It is often easier to make new, than to cobble up the old.
 * 3017. It is sooner said than done.
 * 3031. It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse ; but it is Wisdom to let it alone.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

 * 3051. Jack of all Trades is of no Trade.
 * 3054. Idle Fellows are the Devil's Playfellows.
 * 3061. Idleness makes the Wit rust.
 * 3104. Insolence is Pride, with her Mask pulled off.
 * 3162. Learning makes a good Man better, and an ill Man worse.
 * 3168. Leave no Dirt, you’ll find no Dirt.
 * 3179. Let him fry in his own Grease.
 * 3214. Light-heel'd Mothers make leaden-heel'd Daughters.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Light heel'd mothers make leaden-heel'd daughters.

 * 3263. Live, and let live.
 * 3270. Long life hath long Misery.
 * 3273. Look not a given Horse in the Mouth.
 * 3292. Love me, love my Dog.
 * 3299. Love thy Neighbor ; but cut not up thy Hedge for him.
 * 3306. Maidens should be seen, and not heard.
 * 3313. Make a Virtue of Necessity.
 * 3314. Make Hay, while the Sun shines.
 * 3325. Make the best of a bad Bargain.
 * 3330. Man begins to die before he is born.
 * 3340. Many can bear Adversity, but few Contempt.
 * 3347. Many Hands make light Work.
 * 3358. Many talk like Philosophers, and live like Fools.
 * 3362. Many Things fall out between the Cup and the Lip.
 * 3366. Many would be Cowards if they had Courage enough.

 * 3367. Many would have been worse, if their Estates had been better.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.

 * 3381. Measure thrice, and cut once.
 * 3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.

 * 3389. Men are more prone to revengeInjuries, than to requite Kindnesses.
 * 3395. Men hate those they have hurt.

 * 3400. Men never think their Fortune too great, nor their Wit too little.
 * 3403. Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.
 * 3444. Money, like Dung, does no Good till ’tis spread.
 * 3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.
 * 3461. More than enough is too much.
 * 3515. Necessity dispenseth with Decorum.
 * 3523. Neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good red Herring.
 * 3533. New Brooms sweep clean.
 * 3540. Nice Eaters seldom meet with a good Dinner.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Nice Eaters seldom meet with a good Dinner.

 * 3570. No Fool like the old Fool.
 * 3623. No Resolutions of Repentance hereafter can be sincere.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1739) : No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

 * 3628. No Smoak without some Fire.
 * 3655. None knows the Weight of another's Burthen.
 * 3657. None so deaf, as he that will not hear.
 * 3660. Nothing costs so much as what is given us.

 * 3668. Nothing is ill, that ends well.
 * 3671. Nothing is ours, but Time.
 * 3678. Nothing venture, nothing have.
 * 3685. Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Not to oversee Workmen, is to leave them your Purse open.

 * 3710. Old Custom, without Truth, is but an old Errour.
 * 3733. Once in Use, and ever after a Custom.
 * 3736. One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.
 * 3739. One Bird in the Hand, is worth two in the Bush.
 * 3758. One half of the World wonders how the other lives.
 * 3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.
 * 3779. One may say too much, even upon the best Subject.
 * 3834. Out of Sight ; out of Mind.
 * 3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.
 * 3859. Patience provok'd turns to Fury.
 * 3866. Penny-wise, and Pound-foolish.
 * 3881. Plants too often removed will not thrive.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as those that settled be.

 * 3890. Point not at other's Spots with a foul Finger.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Clean your Finger, before you point at my Spots.

 * 3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach ; rich Men Stomach for their Meat.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

 * 3902. Possession is eleven Points in the Law.
 * 3908. Poverty is not a Shame ; but the being asham'd of it, is.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

 * 3918. Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse.
 * 3941. Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want ; and a great deal more saucy.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750) : Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. .

 * 3968. Proud Men can't bear with Pride in others.
 * 4002. Rashness is not Valour.
 * 4040. Riches abuse them, who know not how to use them.
 * 4057. Rolling Stones gather no Moss.
 * 4059. Rome was not built in a Day.
 * 4070. Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.
 * 4084. Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.
 * 4087. Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.
 * 4106. Set a Thief to catch a Thief.
 * 4154. Short and Sweet.
 * 4163. Silent Men, like still Waters, are deep and dangerous.
 * 4165. Silence gives Consent.
 * 4192. Small Pitchers have wide Ears.
 * 4229. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
 * 4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.
 * 4243. Speak the Truth, and shame the Devil.
 * 4266. Strike, while the Iron is hot.
 * 4301. Tailors and Writers must mind the Fashion.
 * 4304. Take an Hair of the same Dog that bit you.
 * 4322. Teach your Grannum to suck Eggs.
 * 4368. That Patient is not like to recover, that makes the Doctor his Heir.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.

 * 4369. That penny's well spent, that saves a Groat.
 * 4374. That War only is just, which is necessary.
 * 4380. That which is one Man’s Meat, is another Man’s Poison.
 * 4384. That, which proves too much, proves nothing.
 * 4389. That, which you sow, you must reap.
 * 4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire.
 * 4440. The Cart before the Horse.
 * 4490. The Drunkard continually assaults his own Life.
 * 4493. The Earth produces all Things, and receives all again.
 * 4495. The Ebb will fetch off, what the Tide brings in.
 * 4503. The eternal Talker neither hears nor learns.
 * 4517. The King's Cheese goes half away in Pareings.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The King's cheese is half wasted in parings, but no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

 * 4522. The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last.
 * 4537. The Fool is busy in everyone's Business but his own.
 * 4540. The Fool wanders, the wise Man travels.
 * 4545. The Fox may grow grey, but never good.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.

 * 4633. The longest Day must have an End.
 * 4649. The Memory of a Benefit soon vanisheth ; but the Remembrance of an Injury sticketh fast in the Heart.
 * 4655. The Moon is made of green Cheese.
 * 4657. The more Cooks, the worse Broth.
 * 4667. The more, the merrier ; the fewer, the better Cheer.
 * 4671. The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom too fine spun.

 * 4678. The Mountains have brought forth a Mouse.
 * 4693. The older a Fool is, the worse he is.
 * 4702. The Passions are like Fire and Water ; good Servants, but bad Masters.

 * 4706. The Pitcher, that goes often to the Well, comes home broken at last.
 * 4718. The present Fashion is always handsome.
 * 4723. The Proof of a Pudding is in the eating.
 * 4735. The Rich never want for Kindred.
 * 4749. The Sluggard makes his Night till Noon.
 * 4769. The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1746) : The Sting of a Reproach, is the Truth of it.

 * 4776. The Sun is never the worse for shining on a Dunghill.
 * 4781. The sweetest Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar.

 * 4788. The Thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a Thief.
 * 4795. The Tongue breaketh the Bone, tho' it hath none it self.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; Yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

 * 4797. The Tongue is not Steel, yet it cuts sorely.
 * 4823. The weakest go to the Wall.
 * 4833. The wise Man draws more Advantage from his Enemies, than a Fool from his Friends.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : The wise Man draws more Advantage from his Enemies, than the Fool from his Friends.

 * 4848. The worse the Passage, the more welcome the Port.
 * 4851. The worst Spoke in a Cart breaks first.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

 * 4853. The Wrath of Brothers, is fierce and devilish.
 * 4858. There are more old Drunkards, than old Physicians.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : There's more old Drunkards than old Doctors.

 * 4864. There are no Coxcombs so troublesome, as those that have some Wit.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1741) : There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

 * 4867. There cannot be a more intolerable Thing than a fortunate Fool.
 * 4872. There is a Bone for you to pick.
 * 4874. There is a deal of Difference between Love and Gratefulness.
 * 4889. There is but bad Choice, where the whole Stock is bad.
 * 4900. There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.
 * 4908. There is no disputing of Tastes, Appetites and Fancies.
 * 4912. There is no Man so bad, but has a secret Respect for the good.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : There is no Man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

 * 4915. There is no Piety in keeping an unjust Promise.
 * 4925. There is no usual Rule without an exception.
 * 4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.
 * 4942. There must be two at least to a Quarrel.
 * 4948. They agree like Bells ; they want nothing but hanging.
 * 4970. They say so, is half a Lie.
 * 5000. This, or any Moment may be your last.
 * 5003. Tho' all Men were made of one Metal, yet they were not cast all in the same Mould.
 * 5014. Tho' the Sun shines, take your Cloak.
 * 5037. Three are too many to keep a Secret, and too few to be merry.
 * 5038. Three may keep Counsel, if two be away.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.

 * 5040. Thrift is the Philosopher's Stone.
 * 5049. Time and Tide tarry for no Man.
 * 5051. Time devours all things.
 * 5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.
 * 5085. 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.
 * 5091. 'Tis Money, that begets Money.
 * 5115. 'Tis Self-Conceit, that makes Opinion obstinate.
 * 5118. 'Tis the early Bird, that catches the Worm.
 * 5120. 'Tis the last Feather, that breaks the Horse’s Back.
 * 5138. To believe a Business impossible, is the Way to make it so.
 * 5142. To cast Oyl into the Fire, is not the Way to quench it.
 * 5184. To him, that you tell your Secret, you resign your Liberty.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.

 * 5185. To hit the Nail on the Head.
 * 5187. To hold one's Nose to the Grind-stone.
 * 5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.
 * 5192. To kill two Birds with one Stone.
 * 5196. To leave no Stone unturn'd.
 * 5204. To make a Mountain of a Mole-hill.
 * 5210. To nourish a Viper in one's Bosom
 * 5214. To pay one in ones own Coin.
 * 5222. To run the Wild-Goose Chace.
 * 5225. To seek a Needle in a Bottle of Hay.
 * 5235. To strain at a Knat, and swallow a Camel.
 * 5241. To take from the right Hand, and give to the Left.
 * 5243. To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
 * 5263. Too much Familiarity breeds Contempt.
 * 5272. Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse.

 * 5278. Troy was not took in a Day.
 * 5286. Trust him no further than you can throw him.
 * 5291. Trust thy self only, and another shall not betray thee.
 * 5305. Truth loves to go naked.
 * 5306. Truth makes the Devil blush.
 * 5324. Two Dogs fight for a Bone, and a third runs away with it.
 * 5335. Two things a Man should never be angry at ; what he can help, and what he cannot help.
 * 5344. Valour would fight, but Discretion would run away.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : Courage would fight, but Discretion won't let him.

 * 5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
 * 5371. Virtue hath such Charms, that even the Vicious inwardly reverence it.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : There is no Man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.

 * 5414. Want of Care does us more Damage than want of Knowledge.
 * 5423. Waste makes Want.
 * 5426. We are apt to believe what we wish for.
 * 5430. We are more mindful of Injuries than Benefits.
 * 5442. We have all forgot more, than we remember.
 * 5451. We never know the Worth of Water, till the Well is dry.
 * 5454. We seldom find out that we are flattered.
 * 5465. Weeds are apt to grow faster than good Herbs.
 * 5466. Weeds want no sowing.
 * 5481. What cannot be alter'd, must be borne, not blam’d.
 * 5485. What costs little, is less esteemed.
 * 5499. What is the Use of Patience, if we cannot find it when we want it?
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : What signifies your Patience, if you can't find it when you want it.

 * 5515. What's sowed in Youth, will be reaped in Age.
 * 5516. Whatsoever Time does, it undoes.
 * 5519. What the Eye sees not, the Heart rues not.
 * 5536. When a Man is set upon his own Ruin, 'tis in vain to reason with him.

 * 5542. When a Thing is done, Advice comes too late.
 * 5545. When all is gone, Repentance comes too late.
 * 5572. When the Cat's gone, the Mice grow sawcy.
 * 5689. While there is Life, there is Hope.
 * 5698. Who draws his Sword against his Prince, must throw away the Scabbard.

 * 5711. Who more busy than they that have least to do?
 * 5718. Who shall keep the Keepers?
 * 5733. Whosoever engages in many Pursuits, rarely suceeds in one.
 * 5738. Wickedness is its own Punishment, and many Times its own Cure.
 * 5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.
 * 5749. Wine shews what a Man is.
 * 5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms ; Fools, by their own.
 * 5798. With-hold not thy Money, where there is Need ; and waste it not, where there is none.
 * 5802. Wolves may lose their Teeth, but not their Nature.
 * 5810. Women’s Work is never done.
 * 5813. Words are but Wind ; but seeing is believing.
 * 5878. You cannot make Velvet out of a Sow's Ear.
 * 5881. You can't eat your Cake, and have it too.
 * 5930. You lay on your Butter, as with a Trowel.
 * 5949. You may know by a Handful the whole Sack.
 * 5967. You must not hope to reap Wheat, where you sow'd none.
 * 5968. You must plow with such Oxen as you have.
 * 5979. You pour Water into a Sieve.
 * 6001. You starve in a Cook's Shop.
 * 6050. Your Head's so hot, that your Brains bubble over.
 * 6067. Zeal is by no Means the same with Fury and Rage.
 * 6075. When you are Anvil, hold you still ; When you are Hammer, strike your Fill.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) : When you're an Anvil, hold you still, When you're a Hammer, strike your Fill.

 * 6080. Early to go to Bed, and early to rise,  Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

 * 6082. Enough’s as good as a Feast, To one that’s not a Beast.
 * 6089. To borrow upon Usury, bringeth on Beggary.
 * 6099. Help, Hands ; For I have no Lands.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Help, Hands; for I have no Lands.

 * 6103. A Friend in Need Is a Friend in Deed.
 * 6124. What cannot be cured, Must be endured.
 * 6126. April-showers Bring May-flowers.
 * 6129. Who buys, Had need of an hundred Eyes ; But one's enough, For him that sells the Stuff.
 * 6131. When the Cat is away, The Mice may play.
 * 6164. To the Wise A Word may suffice.
 * 6172. Who so blind as he, That will not see?
 * 6185. Marry in Haste, and Repent at Leisure ; It's good to marry late, or never.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : Marry'd in Haste, we oft repent at Leisure.

 * 6258. Follow Love, and it will flee ; Flee Love, and it will follow thee.
 * 6265. Happy’s the wooing, That’s not long a doing.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734).
 * 6291. A Stitch in Time May save nine.
 * 6294. Well begun Is half done.
 * 6295. Birds of a Feather Flock together.
 * 6303. He that speaks the Thing he should not, Shall hear the Thing he would not.
 * 6318. Many a Little Make a Mickle.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : Every little makes a mickle.

 * 6319. Little Stroaks Fell great Oaks.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750).
 * 6320. Man proposes ; God disposes.
 * 6335. Graft good Fruit all, Or graft not at all.
 * 6360. Without Pains, No Gains.
 * 6372. All Work, and no Play, Makes Jack a dull boy.
 * 6384. He that would please all, and himself too, Undertakes what none could ever do.
 * 6401. The Love of a Woman, and a Bottle of Wine, Are sweet for a Season; but last a short Time.
 * 6472. Nothing more smooth than Glass, yet nothing more brittle ; Nothing more fine than Wit, yet nothing more fickle.
 * 6493. A light Purse Is a heavy Curse.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : A light purse is a heavy Curse.

 * 6495. An Ounce of Wit that's bought, Is worth a Pound that's taught.
 * Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught.

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James Wood (critic)

James Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English-American literary critic, essayist and novelist. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.

The Irresponsible Self (2004)

 * The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence.  Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, and these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion.
 * Hysterical realism

 * An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. The lack is the human.
 * Hysterical realism

 * The hypocrite, among other things, can be a deformed ambassador of the truth.

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William Joyce

William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 - 3 January 1946) was an American-born propagandist for Nazi Germany during World War II, known as Lord Haw-Haw, whose English-language radio broadcasts began with the words Germany Calling. He was executed for treason by the British.

1920s

 * As a young man of pure British descent, some of whose forefathers have held high position in the British army, I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love so dearly.
 * Letter to the University of London Military Education Committee (9 August 1922), as cited in Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 145. UK National Archives KV 2/245/301a.

 * A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [a] in the English of Today
 * Review of English Studies'', 1928 os-IV: 337-340.
 * Title of the first published work by Joyce.

1930s

 * I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.
 * Speech at Chiswick (1934), as cited in Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman (Penguin Books, 1987), p. 43

 * We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.
 * Speech at Brighton (March 1934), as cited in Frederic Mullally, Fascism inside England (Claud Morris Books, 1946), p. 15

 * I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.
 * National Socialism Now (c. 1938), pamphlet issued by the National Socialist League.

 * If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.
 * National Socialism Now.

Lord Haw Haw

 * Germany calling! Germany Calling!
 * Catchphrase used to introduce or begin his talks on German radio.

 * The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.
 * Broadcast, Radio Bremen (2 August 1940).

 * To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the Führer and National Socialism, and because I believe most ardently, as I do today, that victory and a perpetuation of the old system would be an incomparably greater evil for [England] than defeat coupled with a possibility of building something new, something really national, something truly socialist.
 * Broadcast (2 April 1941), as cited in Peter Martland, "Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany" (The National Archives, 2003), p. 173. UK National Archives KV 2/245/285.
 * In this broadcast Joyce for the first time identified himself, in response to an article in the London Evening Standard which claimed he ran a spy ring in Britain.

 * [Winston Churchill] is the servant, not of the British public, or of the British Empire, but of International Jewish Finance. This charge must be preferred against a man who has so signally violated British tradition in the course of this war.
 * Broadcast, Radio Cologne (8 April 1943).

 * Churchill has renounced all British interests in Europe and those of his people who are not blind now realise that the pretext for this war was far removed from the cause of it, namely, the subservience of the so-called democratic politicians to their Jewish masters.
 * Broadcast, Radio Cologne (30 August 1944).

 * Bombardment by a new device of centres essential to the British war effort. The action was long delayed, but who can deny that the moment selected for it was chosen most appropriately from the military point of view? Germany has more secret weapons than one.
 * Broadcast, German European Service (17 September 1944).
 * Refers to the first attack by the Vergeltungswaffe-1 (V-1), or "reprisal weapon".

 * Britain's victories are barren; they leave her poor, and they leave her people hungry; they leave her bereft of the markets and the wealth that she possessed six years ago. But above all, they leave her with an immensely greater problem than she had then. We are nearing the end of one phase of Europe's history, but the next will be no happier. It will be grimmer, harder and perhaps bloodier. And now I ask you earnestly, can Britain survive? I am profoundly convinced that without German help she cannot.
 * Broadcast (30 April 1945), as cited in J.W. Hall (ed.), "The Trial of William Joyce" (Notable British Trials series, William Hodge & Co, 1946), p. 302
 * This was Joyce's last broadcast of the war.

 * And therefore I say to you, in these last words, you may not hear from me again for a few months. I say, Es lebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler, and farewell.
 * End of Joyce's last broadcast (His voice heavily slurred due to an apparent state of intoxication)

Other documents

 * The preface is usually that part of a book which can most safely be omitted. It usually represents that efflorescent manifestation of egotism which an author, after working hard, cannot spare either himself or his readers. More often than not the readers spare themselves. When, however, the writer is a daily perpetrator of high treason, his introductory remarks may command from the English public that kind of awful veneration with which £5000 confessions are perused in the Sunday newspapers, quite frequently after the narrator has taken his last leap in the dark.
 * Twilight over England (Internationaler Verlag, Berlin, 1940), preface.

 * Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.
 * Twilight over England.

 * On this tragic day, the death of Adolf Hitler was reported - Admiral Dönitz takes over as his nominated successor. Reach Flensburg about 8. Have to drink wine for breakfast — as nothing else is available.
 * Diary entry (1 May 1945), as cited in Peter Martland, Lord Haw Haw: The English voice of Nazi Germany (The National Archives, 2003), p. 301. UK National Archives KV 2/250/2, p. 55.

Post-WW2

 * I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.
 * Statement given by Joyce under caution (31 May 1945), as cite in J.W. Hall (ed.), The Trial of William Joyce (Notable British Trials series, William Hodge & Co, 1946), p. 58

 * I salute you, Freja, as your lover for ever. Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
 * Last letter to his wife Margaret before he was hanged (3 January 1946), as cite in Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman op cit, p. 211

 * In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war, and I defy the power of darkness which they represent. I warn the British people against the crushing imperialism of the Soviet Union. May Britain be great once again and in the hour of the greatest danger in the West may the standard be raised from the dust, crowned with the words – "You have conquered nevertheless". I am proud to die for my ideals and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.
 * Last letter to his brother Quentin before his execution, as cited in Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman: The Crime of 'Lord Haw-Haw' (1987 [1993]), p. 8
 * Another version has "may the Swastika be raised from the dust" instead of "may the standard be raised from the dust"

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I created this page, more quotes welcome. - Mike Casavant.

Question 30: "Do ninja's fall in love?"

"No, ninja's glide silently into love with two swords drawn"

Question 37: "What are the best and most memorable words you've heard from victims?" - Agent Jay

"Buddy of mine got hit with a joint jumble curse by a viking, it moved all his joints around in different points of his body like his fingers went to his knees and his knees went to his shoulders and his shoulders went to his neck, it was definitely not able to do 'head shoulder knees toes knees toes' cause he was doing like the 'head shoulder knees toes knees toes' (pointing to wrong parts of body)it was tough, it was tough."

Question 42: "When you get your eyes poked out by an enemy or a stick, you can use apples and shove them in your eye sockets and just...their good place holders until you find a witch or a unsuspecting Canadian."

"Cause everyone knows that the only way to kill a Chimera is to cut off its ears and stick them in their nose, cause they can't stand the smell of what they hear."

"Trust me, you do NOT want to meet a Ninjelephant in a dark alley"

do ninjas get awards? what r u kidding, give me a break, ninjas dont need self congrdulatory empty accolades to boost their egos. .... they're NINJAS!!

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Deprecating lynx

 * Relevant discussions:Template talk:Lynx, WQ:VP (2007/03-).

Can an admin please add the links from lynx to this UI element so that we can finally start the deprecation process for it? 121a0012 05:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I hadn't realized we could add general page links to this element. Now that you've brought it up, 121a0012, I notice that most en: projects use this element only to accomodate name changes of standard pages. But I also notice that en:Wikibooks' rather lengthy sidebar is made possible by an elegant grouping and rearrangement of standard and custom links. Perhaps we could do this for Wikiquote, getting rid of the lynx-footer workaround that has served us for over 2 years, but which adds to the burden of maintain and synchronizing pages. (Pardon the backstory, but other readers may not be aware of the issue.)

 * If I read it right, adding a vertical version of the current version of lynx would entail adding something like the following to this MediaWiki page:

 * Wikiquote links
 * List of people by name|People
 * List of literary works|Literary works
 * Category:Proverbs|Proverbs
 * List of films|Films
 * List of television shows|TV shows
 * List of themes|Themes
 * Special:Categories|Categories

 * I don't know if the Categories link would work as shown, as I found no equivalent use of this Special page in the other projects I checked, but I suspect there is a way to do this even if this one doesn't work.

 * I think we should discuss this before we make such a change, though. There are a number of issues we should consider, like:
 * Do we want to just tack on this section, or restructure it like Wikibooks did, separating functions into several groups?
 * Are we okay with pushing down the Search and Toolbox elements by adding these Sidebar elements?
 * Do we want to review which "Wikiquote links" we include in this list, given the changes in Wikiquote since it was first created?
 * Of course, we don't need to settle all these things before we implement something, but this is probably the time to get the discussion started, and in a more public forum than this talk page. (I doubt there are more than a handful of folks watching this page.) But now that you've given us a means to accomplish this long-desired fix, I have hope that we can tackle it in the near future. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.

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 * One thing I am convinced more and more is true and that is this: the only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.
 * Letter to his mother, written from the University of Pennsylvania (February 12, 1904), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 5

 * To tell the truth, I myself never quite feel that I know what I am talking about — if I did, and when I do, the thing written seems nothing to me. However, what I do write and allow to survive I always feel is worth while and that nobody else has ever come as near as I have to the thing I have intimated if not expressed. To me it's a matter of first understanding that which may not be put to words. I might add more but to no purpose. In a sense, I must express myself, you're right, but always completely incomplete if that means anything.
 * To Harriet Monroe (October 14, 1913), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 26

 * It is in tune with the tempo of life — scattered yet welded into the whole, — broken, yet woven together.
 * On his work, in an interview in The New York Herald Tribune (January 18, 1932)

 * The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
 * From A Note on Poetry (c. 1936) quoted in Modern American Poetry (1950) by Louis Untermeyer

 * Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
 * Detail & Prosody for the Poem Patterson given to James Laughlin (1939), now at Houghton Library

 * It's a strange world made up of disappointments for the most part. I keep writing largely because I get a satisfaction from it which can't be duplicated elsewhere. It fills the moments which otherwise are either terrifying or depressed. Not that I live that way, work too quiets me. My chief dissatisfaction with myself at the moment is that I don't seem to be able to lose myself in what I have to do as I should like to.
 * Letter to Robert McAlmon (August 8, 1943), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 216

 * Why do we live? Most of us need the very thing we never ask for. We talk about revolution as if it was peanuts. What we need is some frank thinking and a few revolutions in our own guts; to hell with what most of the sons of bitches that I know and myself along with them if I don't take hold of myself and turn about when I need to — or go ahead further if that's the game.
 * Letter to Robert McAlmon (September 4, 1943), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 217

 * Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.
 * Letter to James Laughlin (January 14, 1944), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 219

Do we not see that we are inarticulate? That is what defeats us.
 * What is the use of reading the common news of the day, the tragic deaths and abuses of daily living, when for over half a lifetime we have known that they must have occurred just as they have occurred given the conditions that cause them? There is no light in it. It is trivial fill-gap. We know the plane will crash, the train be derailed. And we know why. No one cares, no one can care. We get the news and discount it, we are quite right in doing so. It is trivial. But the hunted news I get from some obscure patients' eyes is not trivial. It is profound: whole academies of learning, whole ecclesiastical hierarchies are founded upon it and have developed what they call their dialectic upon nothing else, their lying dialectics. A dialectic is any arbitrary system, which, since all systems are mere inventions, is necessarily in each case a false premise, upon which a closed system is built shutting out those who confine themselves to it from the rest of the world. All men one way or another use a dialectic of some sort into which they are shut, whether it be an Argentina or a Japan. So each group is maimed. Each is enclosed in a dialectic cloud, incommunicado, and for that reason we rush into wars and prides of the most superficial natures.
 * The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951), Ch. 54: "The Practice"

 * My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
 * The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams (1951) [W. W. Norton & Co., 1967, ISBN 978-0811202268 ]

 * There's a lot of bastards out there!
 * Remark (c. 1957), as quoted in the introduction to the poem "Death News" by Allen Ginsberg: Visit to W.C.W. circa 1957, poets Kerouac Corso Orlovsky on sofa in living room inquired wise words, stricken Williams pointed thru window curtained on Main Street: "There's a lot of bastards out there!"

 * I liked this because of the elimination of the essential in the composition. I cut it down and down, and down. This squeezed up to make it vivid.
 * Annotation on "Chicory and Daisies" (1915) on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)

 * I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.
 * Annotations on John C. Thirlwell's copy of The Collected Earlier Poems (c. 1958)

 * The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
 * Interview with Stanley Koehler (April 1962), in The Paris Review : Writers at Work, 3rd series, Viking Penguin, p. 29 ISBN 0-14-00-4542-2

 * Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
 * As quoted in Free Verse. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 2nd ed (1975)

Marriage (1916)

 * So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
 * Poetry Chicago, 1916)

Al Que Quiere! (1917)

 * Full text online at Wikisource

 * Lift your flowers on bitter stems chickory! Lift them up out of the scorched ground! Bear no foliage but give yourself wholly to that! Strain under them you bitter stems that no beast eats — and scorn greyness!
 * "Chicory and Daisies"

 * The earth cracks and is shriveled up; the wind moans piteously; the sky goes out if you should fail.
 * "Chicory and Daisies"

 * Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it:  colored women day workers— old and experienced— returning home at dusk, in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak.
 * "Apology"

 * the set pieces of your faces stir me — leading citizens — but not in the same way.
 * "Apology"

 * I lie here thinking of you:— the stain of love is upon the world!
 * "Love Song"

 * It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
 * "El Hombre"

 * Brother! — if we were rich we'd stick our chests out and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us.  There is no more pride in horses or in rein holding.  We sit hunched together brooding our fate.  Well — all things turn bitter in the end whether you choose the right or the left way     and — dreams are not a bad thing.
 * "Libertad! Igualidad! Fraternidad!"

 * Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
 * "Danse Russe"

Spring and All (1923)

 * so much depends upon a red wheel barrow  glazed with rain water  beside the white chickens
 * "The Red Wheelbarrow"

 * By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast — a cold wind.
 * "Spring and All"

 * Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches — They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them The cold, familiar wind — Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined — It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf  But now the stark dignity of entrance — Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.
 * "Spring and All"

 * The pure products of America go crazy —
 * "To Elsie"

Sour Grapes (1921)

 * Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.
 * "The Great Figure"

 * Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind — But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested — the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.
 * "To Awaken an Old Lady", originally published in The Dial (August 1920)

Collected Poems 1921-1931 (1934)

 * I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast  Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
 * "This Is Just to Say"

 * He's come out of the man and he's let the man go —
 * the liar Dead
 * his eyes
 * rolled up out of the light — a mockery
 * which
 * love cannot touch — just bury it and hide its face for shame.
 * "Death"

 * Your case has been reviewed by high-minded and unprejudiced observers (like hell they were!) the president of a great university, the president of a noteworthy technical school and a judge too old to sit on the bench, men already rewarded for their services to pedagogy and the enforcement of arbitrary statutes. In other words pimps to tradition —
 * "Impromptu: The Suckers"

 * It's all you deserve. You've got the cash, what the hell do you care? You've got nothing to lose. You are inheritors of a great tradition. My country right or wrong! You do what you're told to do. You don't answer back the way Tommy Jeff did or Ben Frank or Georgie Washing. I'll say you don't. You're civilized. You let your betters tell you where you get off. Go ahead —
 * "Impromptu: The Suckers"

An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)

 * Among of green stiff old bright  broken branch come  white sweet May  again
 * "The Locust Tree in Flower"

Complete Collected Poems (1938)

 * These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man.  The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night
 * "These"

The Wedge (1944)

 * The War is the first and only thing in the world today. The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.
 * Introduction

 * Who isn’t frustrated and does not prove it by his actions — if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.
 * Introduction

 * A man isn’t a block that remains stationary though the psychologists treat him so — and most take an insane pride in believing it. Consistency! He varies; Hamlet today, Caesar tomorrow; here, there, somewhere — if he is to retain his sanity, and why not? The arts have a complex relation to society. The poet isn’t a fixed phenomenon, no more is his work.
 * Introduction

 * There’s nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
 * Introduction

 * Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
 * Introduction

 * Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
 * Introduction

 * When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them — without distortion which would mar their exact significances — into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn’t what he says that counts as a work of art, it’s what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.
 * Introduction

 * There is no poetry of distinction without formal invention, for it is in the intimate form that works of art achieve their exact meaning, in which they most resemble the machine, to give language its highest dignity, its illumination in the environment to which it is native. Such war, as the arts live and breathe by, is continuous. It may be that my interests as expressed here are pre-art. If so I look for a development along these lines and will be satisfied with nothing else.
 * Introduction

 * Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. — through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.
 * "A Sort of a Song"

Collected Later Poems (1950)

 * Not now. Love itself a flower with roots in a parched ground. Empty pockets make empty heads. Cure it if you can but do not believe that we can live today in the country for the country will bring us    no peace.
 * "Raleigh Was Right" (1940)

The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954)

 * I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way
 * "To a Dog Injured in the Street"

 * The cries of a dying dog are to be blotted out as best I can. René Char you are a poet who believes in the power of beauty to right all wrongs. I believe it also. With invention and courage we shall surpass the pitiful dumb beasts, let all men believe it, as you have taught me also to believe it.
 * "To a Dog Injured in the Street"

Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

 * Of asphodel, that greeny flower,
 * like a buttercup
 * upon its branching stem —
 * save that's green and wooden —
 * I come, my sweet,
 * to sing to you.
 * We lived long together,
 * a life filled,
 * if you will,
 * with flowers. So that
 * I was cheered
 * when I first came to know
 * that there were flowers also
 * in hell.
 * Today
 * I'm filled with the fading memory of those flowers
 * that we both loved,
 * even to this poor
 * colorless thing —
 * I saw it
 * when I was a child —
 * little prized among the living
 * but the dead see,
 * asking among themselves:
 * What do I remember
 * that was shaped
 * as this thing is shaped?
 * while our eyes fill
 * with tears.
 * Of love, abiding love
 * it will be telling
 * though too weak a wash of crimson
 * colors it
 * to make it wholly credible.
 * There is something
 * something urgent
 * I have to say to you
 * and you alone
 * but it must wait
 * while I drink in
 * the joy of your approach,
 * perhaps for the last time.
 * And so
 * with fear in my heart
 * I drag it out
 * and keep on talking
 * for I dare not stop.

 * Only give me time,
 * time to recall them
 * before I shall speak out.
 * Give me time,
 * time.
 * When I was a boy
 * I kept a book
 * to which, from time
 * to time,
 * I added pressed flowers
 * until, after a time,
 * I had a good collection.
 * The asphodel,
 * forebodingly,
 * among them.
 * I bring you,
 * reawakened,
 * a memory of those flowers.
 * They were sweet
 * when I pressed them
 * and retained
 * something of their sweetness
 * a long time.
 * It is a curious odor,
 * a moral odor,
 * that brings me
 * near to you.

 * Endless wealth,
 * I thought,
 * held out its arms to me.
 * A thousand tropics
 * in an apple blossom.
 * The generous earth itself
 * gave us lief.
 * The whole world
 * became my garden!
 * But the sea
 * which no one tends
 * is also a garden
 * when the sun strikes it
 * and the waves
 * are wakened.
 * I have seen it
 * and so have you
 * when it puts all flowers
 * to shame.

 * I cannot say
 * that I have gone to hell
 * for your love
 * but often
 * found myself there
 * in your pursuit.
 * I do not like it
 * and wanted to be
 * in heaven. Hear me out.
 * Do not turn away.
 * I have learned much in my life
 * from books
 * and out of them
 * about love.
 * Death
 * is not the end of it.

 * The storm unfolds.
 * Lightning
 * plays about the edges of the clouds.
 * The sky to the north
 * is placid,
 * blue in the afterglow
 * as the storm piles up.
 * It is a flower
 * that will soon reach
 * the apex of its bloom.

 * When I speak
 * of flowers
 * it is to recall
 * that at one time
 * we were young.
 * All women are not Helen,
 * I know that,
 * but have Helen in their hearts.
 * My sweet,
 * you have it also, therefore
 * I love you
 * and could not love you otherwise.

 * The storm bursts
 * or fades! it is not
 * the end of the world.
 * Love is something else,
 * or so I thought it,
 * a garden which expands,
 * though I knew you as a woman
 * and never thought otherwise,
 * until the whole sea
 * has been taken up
 * and all its gardens.
 * It was the love of love,
 * the love that swallows up all else,
 * a grateful love,
 * a love of nature, of people,
 * of animals,
 * a love engendering
 * gentleness and goodness
 * that moved me
 * and that I saw in you.

 * I come, my sweet,
 * to sing to you!
 * My heart rouses
 * thinking to bring you news
 * of something
 * that concerns you
 * and concerns many men. Look at
 * what passes for the new.
 * You will not find it there but in
 * despised poems.

 * It is difficult to get the news from poems
 * yet men die miserably every day
 * for lack
 * of what is found there.

Quotes about William Carlos Williams

 * Native American literature should be important to Americans not as a curio, an artifact of the American past that has little pertinence to an American present or future, but rather as a major tradition that informs American writers ranging from Cotton Mather and Nathaniel Hawthorne through Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and William Faulkner to Adrienne Rich, Toni Cade Bambara, and Judy Grahn.
 * Paula Gunn Allen The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986)

 * In one of his poems William Carlos Williams writes that "destruction and creation are simultaneous." Picasso said a very similar thing. For Williams, that's a way of mythologizing the avant-garde, the cutting edge: you have to destroy.
 * Tony Barnstone in Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee Edited by Bradley C. Edwards (2009)

 * My early identity and love poems were influenced by the imagism of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.
 * Marilyn Chin Preface to A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (2018)

 * When I read Virginia Woolf's Orlando or William Carlos Williams's In the American Grain, I can feel like I'm dying, or I'm stuck, both in life and in work. I read those books, and then I start flowing again. I'm happy that I can do that for other people.
 * 1989 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

 * When I was reading William Carlos Williams's In the American Grain...I thought, wow, this is it. This is the way to write about America. This is right. This is history, the mythic history. So I'm sure there was going to be a volume two. So I ran to the library and turned this one in, looking for volume two. There isn't a volume two; that's it! That was when I thought, oh. I've got to write volume two. If he didn't do it, then I've got to do it. So that's China Men. They bind the country together with steel, the bands of steel that are the railroads. That's the same kind of missing feeling; after I finished the first two books, I thought, oh! there's more language in me, this other kind of language, this very slangy, American, present-day language. And the other thing that was missing was that, well, I wanted to read some books about the time that the Beatniks went away-those are our forefathers, our immediate forefathers.
 * 1989 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

 * In the 1920s, he was calling for a book that was worthy of the Americas. He was thinking of a big American novel. He was not confining it to the United States. Williams was thinking of the Americas; he wanted a book that was speaking from the large ground of these two continents.
 * 1993 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)

 * fear of embarrassment, fear of sticking your neck out, fear of looking foolish, fear of writing in a way that nobody else is writing (I'm not talking about trying to be extraordinary or avant-garde)... there are people who stick through for twenty years.... I'll give you an example: William Carlos Williams. In his autobiography he says (I'll have to paraphrase this, he said it with a New Jersey accent), "Well, it looks like this guy T. S. Eliot has hit it real big with The Waste Land, it looks like that is the direction for literature." His next line is: "Now I know I will have to wait twenty years to be heard." So he did, he just kept doing what he thought was right, became a powerful influence, stuck to his ideas of the American language. But lots and lots of other people said, "Well, that looks like the way to go," and trotted off, cutting their roots as they went.
 * 1979 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley (1997)

 * What I lacked was even the idea of a twentieth-century tradition of radical or revolutionary poetics as a stream into which a young poet could dip her glass. Among elders, William Carlos Williams wrote from the landscape of ordinary urban, contemporary America, of ordinary poor and working people, and in a diction of everyday speech, plainspoken yet astonishingly musical and flexible. But I don't recall being taken out of my skin by any Williams poem, though later I would work with his phrasing and ways of breaking a line as a means of shedding formal metrics.
 * Adrienne Rich What Is Found There (2003)

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User talk:Moravia~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Moravia. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Moravia~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:53, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Moravia~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Snowflake~enwikiquote

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Snowflake. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Snowflake~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Snowflake~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Friedfish

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title: User talk:Friedfish


text:
User talk:Bpar

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title: User talk:Bpar


text:
User talk:Moviemaniacx

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title: User talk:Moviemaniacx


text:
User talk:Live4life

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title: User talk:Live4life


text:
User talk:Xl1212

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title: User talk:Xl1212


text:
User talk:Magnet~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Magnet. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Magnet~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Magnet~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:CarolineTheRad~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called CarolineTheRad. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name CarolineTheRad~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:CarolineTheRad~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Josephkuzma~enwikiquote

Welcome
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Josephkuzma. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Josephkuzma~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:28, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:50, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Josephkuzma~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Monkeebiz

Welcome
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title: User talk:Monkeebiz