And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
~ Dylan Thomas



Next word: wicked

For never, never, wicked man was wise . Alexander Pope


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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.

George Grenville (1712-1770), speech against the motion for expelling John Wilkes, House of Commons, February 3, 1769.—The Parliamentary History of England, printed by T. C. Hansard, vol. 16, col. 570 (1813).

“Though Grenville had taken a prominent part in the early measures against Wilkes, he opposed his expulsion from the House of Commons on 3 Feb. 1769, in probably the ablest speech that he ever made.”—The Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 8, p. 559.

next word: conciliate

That Socrates was not a good citizen was a charge made against him during his lifetime, which has been often repeated in later ages....The fact that he had been neutral in the death-struggle of Athens was not likely to conciliate popular good-will.~Plato, Crito

Next word: good-will

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
~ Sallustius Crispus



Next word: enmities

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
French philosopher and essayist.

next word: distempers

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.~Joseph Addison

Next word: ambuscade

As to the transcendent military genius of Hannibal there cannot be two opinions. The man who for fifteen years could hold his ground in a hostile country against several powerful armies and a succession of able generals must have been a commander and a tactician of supreme capacity. In the use of strategies and ambuscades he certainly surpassed all other generals of antiquity .


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Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.
~ Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington



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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded , but must be current . ~ John Milton


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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
~ Brenda Ueland



Next word: magnetic

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.~Pieter Zeeman

Next word: perforated

"How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things . . ."

Gerard De Nerval (1808 - 1855) French "poet, translator, author"
"Aurélia, pt. 2, ch. 6 (1855; repr. in Selected Writings, ed. and tr. by Geoffrey Wagner, 1958)."

next word: limitless

Perforation is a Rip Off . ~ Graffiti Lives O.K


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If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.~Alfred Hitchcock

Next word: audience

"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is ""holding a mirror up to nature."" You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with a situation. If it were a mirror we would have no art.


Montgomery Clift (1920 - 1966) US actor
"In ""Words of Wisdom,"" by Wm. Safire & Leonard Safire, 1989."

next word: magnifying

Few enterprises of great labour or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them . ~ Sammuel Johnson


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The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
~ Abraham Lincoln



Next word: preponderance

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

Marilyn Hacker American Poet.

next word: devaluation

What devaluation does accomplish is an erosion of purchasing power for its citizens.~Jim Sinclair

Next word: erosion