NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (SEPTEMBER 15-21)
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat."
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Samuel Butler (1912) Notebooks
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (SEPTEMBER 22-28)
"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
Shakespeare (1592-1593). Richard III, Act IV, scene iv.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (SEPT. 29 -OCT 05)
[Of Byron] "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785 - 1828). Journal
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (OCT. 06 -OCT 12)
"He was a good man in the worst sense of the term."
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (OCT. 13 -OCT 19)
"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."
William Golding, Lord of the Flies. 1954
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (OCT. 20 -NOV 02)
"He is not only dull himself, but he is the cause of dullness in others."
said by Samuel Foote (1720 - 1777)
From James Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (NOV. 03 -NOV 09)
"Puritanism--- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
H. L. Mencken, in A Mencken Chrestomathy, (1949)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (NOV. 10 -NOV 16)
"Oh God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
Shakespeare (1600-1601). Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (NOV. 17 -NOV 23)
"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.
Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1881). The Emperor's New Clothes.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (NOV. 24 -NOV 30)
"When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendency, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder."
Karl Marx (1818-1883). Das Capital. PT II, Chapter 3
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (DEC. 01 -DEC 07)
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965). The Hollow Man. PT V.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK (DEC. 08 -DEC 14)
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above"
James Agee, In: The African Queen, 1951. Spoken by Kate Hepburn.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(DECEMBER 18, 2008 -JANUARY 04, 2009)
"A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture cannot stick"
William Shakespeare, In: The Tempest, 1611. Spoken about Caliban.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 08, 2009 -JANUARY 19, 2009)
"The children will not leave unless I do; I shall not leave unless their father does; and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatsoever."
Said by the Queen during the Blitz in 1940, responding to the question:" Will you and your children be seeking safty in Canada?"
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 19, 2009 -JANUARY 26, 2009)
"Its not worthwhile to go round the world to count the cats of Zanaibar."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Walden
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(JANUARY 26, 2009 -FEBRUARY 01, 2009)
"Little things affect little minds."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). Sybil
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(FEBRUARY 3, 2009 -FEBRUARY 09, 2009)
[in reviewing a book] "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1830)
In an 1802 review of: The Work of Thomas Young
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"He that lies with the dogs, riseth with the fleas."
George Herbert (1593-1633)
Jacula Prudentum
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(FEBRUARY 23, 2009 -MARCH 02, 2009)
"All the interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
The Magic Mountain, 1924
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2009)
"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
Francois, Due de la Rochefoucauld(1630-1680)
REFLECTIONS, 1678
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(MARCH 30 TO APRIL 13, 2009)
"Afflict me with Attention Surplus Disorder so I can see what is in front of my face"."
Tom Andrews
"North of the Future" in Random Symmetries, 2002
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(APRIL 14 TO APRIL 24, 2009)
William Strunk
"OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS."
E. B. White
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MAY 04 -MAY 10, 2009
"He has not so much brain as ear-wax."
Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida, Act V, scene i.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
MAY 11 -MAY 18, 2009
"It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death."
(about Jane Austin) Mark Twain in Letter to Howells, 1909
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
MAY 18 -MAY 25, 2009
"Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us."
Friedrich Nietzshe in The Antichrist, 1888
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
MEMORIAL DAY TO JUNE 1, 2009
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong,
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me"
Eric Bogle, And the band played waltzing Matilda, 1971
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JUNE 01 -JUNE 08, 2009
"The long arm of coincidence."
Haddon Chambers (1860-1921), Captain Swift, act II.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JUNE 08 -JUNE 15, 2009
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts . . . for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang (1844-1912 )
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JUNE 22 -JULY 05, 2009
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
Aeschylus, in Agamemnon, 456 BC
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JULY 06 -JULY 20, 2009
"There is less in this than meets the eye."
Tallulah Bankhead (1902 - 1968)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JULY 20 -JULY 31, 2009
"Rosy-fingered dawn appeared, the early-born."
Homer, The Illiad (about 700 BC)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
AUGUST 07 -AUGUST17, 2009
". . . the rare virtue of thick walls and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh man! admire and model thyself after the whale"
Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
AUGUST 17 -AUGUST 24, 2009
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamberger"
Abbie Hoffman, Remark recalled at his death (1989)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
AUGUST 24 -AUGUST 31, 2009
Lady Nancy Astor:
"If I were your wife I would put poison in your tea."
Winston Churchill:
"And if I were your husband I would drink it."
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 07, 2009)
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(SEPTEMBER 07-SEPTEMBER 21, 2009)
"A true German can't stand the French, yet willingly he drinks their wines."
Goethe (1749-1832)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 04, 2009)
"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
Winston Churchill (1949)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(OCTOBER 05-OCTOBER 12, 2009)
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested when the need for illusion is deep."
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 09, 2009)
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
said about Guy Fawkes, 1603
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(NOVEMBER 16 - November 23, 2009)
No man's pie is freed from his ambitious finger.
Shakespeare, in Henry VIII
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(NOVEMBER 30 - December 07, 2009)
"In this best of all possible worlds . . . . everything is for the best."
Voltaire, said by Candide, in Candide (1756)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(DECEMBER 07 - December 21, 2009)
"NULLIUS IN VERBA."
(Take nobody's word for it)
Horace (65 BC to 08 AD)
also, the motto of the British Royal Society
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 01 - JANUARY 17, 2010)
"The past weights heavily on the present."
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ASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 18 - JANUARY 25, 2010)
Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(FEBRUARY 02 - FEBRUARY 15, 2010)
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and thens says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."
Huck Finn contemplating eternal consequences of helping Big Jim escape
Mark Twain (1885 )
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(FEBRUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 28, 2010)
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
In, Papers Of One Still Living
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855 )
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"EATING IS TOUCH CARRIED TO THE BITTER END."
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Samuel Butler (1912) Notebooks
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(MARCH 15- MARCH 28, 2010)
Go ask Alice,
when she's ten feet tall.
In, White Rabbit
Grace Slick (1939 - )
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(MARCH 28- APRIL 15, 2010)
I AM A GREAT LOVER OF BEEF,
I BELIEVE IT DOES HARM TO MY WIT.
In, Twelfth Night
William Shapkespeare
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(MAY 01- MAY 15, 2010)
FOUR DEAD IN OHIO
Neil Young
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JULY 01- JULY 31, 2010)
A well-trained man knows how to answer question.
An educated man knows what questions are worth asking.
E. Digby Baltzell, 1955
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(SEPTEMBER 01 TO 15, 2010)
If my brains are any good at all, its because I was born in the pure air of your Arezzo countryside, just as with my mother's milk I sucked in the hammer and chisels I use for my statues.
Michelangelo
(whose wet nurse was a stone cutter's daughter)
explaining his ability
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(DECEMBER 01 - DECEMBER 15, 2010)
In Xandadu did Kubla Khan
a stately pleasure-dome decree.
Samuel Coleridge, 1772-1834
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(DECEMBER 15 - DECEMBER 31, 2010)
Where the light is brightest the shadows are deepest
Wolfgang Goethe (1771)
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 01 - JANUARY 15, 2011)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little influence in society.
Mark Twain
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JANUARY 15 - JANUARY 31, 2011)
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie.
George Orwell
in The art of Donald McGill, 1941
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(MARCH 15 - APRIL 15, 2011)
What's past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
in King Lear
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
(JUNE 01 TO JUNE 25, 2011
"Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame."
attributed to Socrates
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
JULY 20-JULY 31, 2011
"Be the change you want to see."
Ghandi
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
SEPTEMBER 01 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
"IF YOU HAVEN'T SPENT TIME IN JAIL, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG."
An old Quaker saying. Maybe George Fox
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
NOVEMBER 01 - 15, 2011
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
said about Guy Fawkes, 1603
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NASHORISM OF THE MONTH
OCTOBER 2012
He was not of an age, but for all time.
said by Ben Jonson about Shakespeare
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NASHORISM OF THE MONTH
NOVEMBER 2012
IF I HAD TWO FACES, WHY WOULD I CHOOSE TO USE THIS ONE.
Lincoln responds to accusation that he is two-faced
1860
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NASHORISM OF THE MONTH
JUNE 2013
A FANATIC IS ONE WHO CAN'T CHANGE HIS MIND, AND WON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT.
Winston Churchill
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NASHORISM OF THE MONTH
JULY 2013
EXCESS AIN'T REBELLION.
John McCrea
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NASHORISM OF THE WEEK
"Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun."
Seamus Haeney
1939 - 2013
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NASHORISM OF THE MONTH
JANUARY 2014
"The end is where we start from."
T. S. Elliot
1888 - 1965