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1990
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Holidays and
Anniversaries
of the World
A Comprehensive Catalogue Containing Detailed Information
on Every Month and Day of the Year, with Coverage of 23,000 Holidays,
Anniversaries, Fasts and Feasts, Holy Days, Days of the Saints, the Blesseds,
and Other Days of Heortological Significance, Birthdays of the Famous,
Important Dates in History, and Special Events and Their Sponsors
SECOND EDITION
Jennifer Mossman, Editor
Gale Research Inc.
DETROIT
NEW YORK
FORT LAUDERDALE
LONDON
Holidays
Bulgaria
Day of Slav Letters or Education
Day
A day of tribute to the nation's
May 24
literature and culture.
Ecuador
Battle of Pichincha Day
Commemorates the battle
during the war for
independence from Spain, 1822.
Birthdates
1494
Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci),
Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African
Italian painter of Florentine school; pupil
statesman, soldier; played a significant role
of Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Sarto.
in the creation of Union of South Africa.
[d. January 2, 1557]
[d. September 11, 1950]
1544
William Gilbert, English physician, physi-
1878
Harry Emerson Fosdick, U.S. Protestant
cist; known as Father of Electricity. First to
minister; stimulated heated controversy
use terms electric force, magnetic pole. [d.
between liberals and fundamentalists. [d.
December 10, 1603]
October 5, 1969]
1743
Jean Paul Marat, French Revolutionary
politician born in Switzerland; advocate of
1883
Elsa Maxwell, U.S. journalist, socialite;
extreme violence. [d. at the hand of Char-
known for organizing parties for socially
lotte Corday, July 13, 1793)
prominent people. (d. November 1, 1963]
1810
Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, scholar,
1891
William F. Albright, U.S. orientalist, ar-
author; leader of the second generation of
chaeologist; authority on Dead Sea Scrolls.
Reform. Judaism in Germany. [d. October
[d. September 19, 1971]
23, 1874]
1898
Helen Brooke Taussig, U.S. physician;
1819
(Alexandrina) Victoria, Queen of Great
developed surgical procedure for treating
Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901; Empress
"blue babies"; led fight against Thalidomide
of India, 1876-1901. Ruled in dignified
in U.S. [d. May 20, 1986]
manner which created new concept of
monarchy in the Empire. [d. January 22,
1899
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player;
1901)
called the Pavlova of Tennis. [d. July 4,
Richard Mansfield, U.S. actor; known for
1938]
1854
his portrayal of the lead role in Cyrano de
1905
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Rus-
Bergerac. [d. August 30, 1907]
sian novelist; Nobel Prize in literature, 1965.
1855
Alfred Cort Haddon, British ethnologist,
[d. February 21, 1984]
anthropologist; one of founders of modern
1907
Douglas Leigh, U.S. advertising executive;
anthropology. [d. April 20, 1940]
best known for Coca-Cola and Camel Ciga-
Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright;
rette signs in Times Square, New York City.
his works marked the beginning of a new
era in British drama, characterized by
1909
Wilbur Daigh Mills, U.S. politician; Con-
problem plays. [d. November 23, 1934]
gressman, 1939-77.
1863
George Grey Barnard, U.S. sculptor;
1914
Lilli Palmer, German-born actress, author.
sculpted more than 30 pieces for state cap-
[d. January 27, 1986]
itol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [d. April
1918
Coleman A(lexander) Young, U.S. politi-
24, 1938]
cian; Mayor of Detroit, 1974-
1870
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, U.S. jurist,
1922
Siobhan McKenna, Irish actress.
lawyer; Justice of U.S. Supreme Court,
1932-38. Profound legal philosopher. {d.
1934
Jane Byrne, U.S. politician; Mayor of Chi-
July 9, 1938]
cago, 1979-82.
390
Religious Calendar
St. Nicetas of Pereaslau, martyr. Also called the
Wonder-Worker for his miracles of healing. [d. 1186]
The Saints
The Beatified
SS. Donatian and Rogatian, martyrs. Greatly vener-
ated at Nantes and known there as Les Enfants
Blessed Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury. [d.
1089]
Nantais. [d. 289 or 304]
St. Vincent of Lérins, hermit. [d. C. 445}
Blessed John of Prado, Franciscan missionary and
martyr. [d. 1613]
St. David I of Scotland, King of Scotland 1124-53.
[d. 1153)
1940
Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky, Russian-
1915
The U.S. proclaims its neutrality in the war
born author, poet; Nobel Prize in literature,
between Italy and Austria-Hungary (World
1987.
War I).
1941
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), U.S.
1917
Russians peasants rise against large land
singer, songwriter.
owners and Germans living in Russia (Rus-
1943
Gary Burghoff, U.S. actor; known for his
sian Revolution).
role as Radar on television series, MASH.
1928
Umberto Nobile, in his last exploratory
1944
Patti LaBelle (Patricia Holt), U.S. singer;
flight in the dirigible Italia, crashes on a
known for songs, New Attitude, 1985, and On
return flight from the North Pole.
My Own, 1986.
1930
Amy Johnson arrives in Australia, becom-
1946
Priscilla Ann Beaulieu Presley, U.S. ac-
ing first woman to complete solo flight
tress; married to Elvis Presley, 1967-73;
from England to Australia.
known for her role as Jena on television
series, Dallas.
1935
First major league baseball night game is
1955
Roseanne Cash, U.S. singer; daughter of
played at Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Johnny Cash.
between Cincinnati Reds and the Philadel-
phia Phillies.
Historical Events
1941
German battleship Bismarck sinks the
British battle cruiser Hood. British air and
1153
King David I of Scotland dies and is suc-
naval forces subsequently sink the Bis-
ceeded by his grandson, Malcolm IV.
marck (World War II).
1370
Peace of Stralsund between Denmark-
1960
Norway and Hansa secures Hanseatic pre-
U.S. Air Force launches Midas II, a 5,000
dominance in Northern Europe.
pound experimental satellite designed to
1822
Ecuador achieves independence.
give early warning of surprise missile at-
tacks.
1844
Samuel F. B. Morse transmits the first tel-
egraphic message from the U.S. Supreme
1962
M(alcolm) Scott Carpenter successfully
Court room in the Capitol, Washington,
completes second U.S. manned orbital
D.C., to Baltimore. The message: What hath
space flight with three trips around the
God wrought.
earth.
1846
U.S. General Zachary Taylor captures
1966
Jerry Herman's musical, Mame, premieres
Monterey (Mexican War).
in New York.
1856
John Brown, U.S. abolitionist, leads retali-
1968
Bob Foster defeats Dick Tiger in four
atory massacre at Pottawatomie Creek,
rounds to win the world light heavyweight
Kansas, in revenge for Quantril's raid on
boxing title.
Lawrence, Kansas (see May 21).
1976
Supersonic Concorde jets begin regular
1883
The Brooklyn Bridge opens, linking Man-
flights, less than four hours in duration,
hattan to Brooklyn, New York.
from London and Paris to Dulles Interna-
(Continues. .)
391
tional Airport near Washington, D.C., on a
16-month trial basis.
1978
Princess Margaret of Great Britain and
her husband, the Earl of Snowden, are
granted a divorce after 18 years of mar-
riage.
1983
Dr. Fred Sinowatz is inaugurated as chan-
cellor of Austria.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the
Internal Revenue Service can deny tax
exemptions to private schools that dis-
criminate against minorities in admissions
and other policies.
1984
Five former Salvadoran National Guards-
men are found guilty of aggravated homi-
cide and robbery in the 1980 murders of
three U.S. nuns and one lay person.
392
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1991
Chase's Annual Events
May
NAIA MEN'S AND WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK AND
FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS. May 23-25. Tarleton State Uni-
versity, Stephenville, TX. Sponsor: Service Master. Info from:
Natl Assn of Intercollegiate Athletics, 1221 Baltimore Ave, Kan-
sas City, MO 64105.
NAIA WOMEN'S TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS. May 23-25.
Overland Park Racquet Club, Overland Park, KS. Info from:
Natl Assn of Intercollegiate Athletics, 1221 Baltimore Ave, Kan-
sas City, MO 64105.
SOUTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION RATIFICATION:
ANNIVERSARY. May 23. By a vote of 149 to 73, South
Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the Constitution, on
May 23, 1788.
SWEDEN: LINNAEUS DAY. May 23. Stenbrohult. Commemo-
rates birth, May 23, 1707, of Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne),
Swedish naturalist. Died at Uppsala, Sweden, Jan 10, 1778.
THREE RIVERS COAL FESTIVAL. May 23-26. Fairmont,
WV. An entertaining and educational festival celebrates heri-
tage in coal. Sponsor: Three Rivers Coal Festival, PO Box 1604,
Fairmont, WV 26554.
FESTIVAL WEEK '91. May 24-27. (Also May 31-June 2.) Roa-
BIRTHDAYS TODAY
noke, VA. A celebration of life and the arts. Info from: Roa-
Max Abramovitz, architect, born at Chicago, IL, May 23, 1908.
noke's Festival in the Park, Box 8276, Roanoke, VA 24014.
Rosemary Clooney, singer, born at Maysville, KY, May 23,
"500" MINI-MARATHON. May 24. Indianapolis, IN. A 13.1-mile
1928.
marathon through the streets of downtown Indianapolis, ending
Joan Collins, actress, born at London, England, May 23, 1933.
on the start/finish line of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxer, born at Newark, NJ, May
home to the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Info from: 500 Festival
23, 1952.
Assn, Inc, PO Box 817, Indianapolis, IN 46206.
Robert Moog, inventor, born at Flushing, NY, May 23, 1934.
Artie Shaw, musician, born at New York, NY, May 23, 1910.
FLORIDA FOLK FESTIVAL. May 24-26. Stephen Foster Cen-
ter, White Springs, FL. To celebrate Flordia's folk heritage with
music, song, dance and stories. Sponsor: Florida Dept of State,
Bureau of Florida Folklife, Box 265, White Springs, FL 32096.
MAY 24 - FRIDAY
GRUBSTAKE DAYS. May 24-27. Yucca Valley, CA. Includes
144th Day - Remaining, 221
parade, carnival, PCRA rodeo, dances, tug-of-war, horseshoe
AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL DIXIELAND JAZZ FES-
throw, food and community booths, arts and craft booths and
TIVAL. May 24-27. Sacramento, CA. Including 108 bands
breakfasts offered by local service organizations. Annually,
from the US, Canada and 15 foreign countries performing
Memorial Day weekend. Info from: Yucca Valley Chamber of
American dixieland music. Sponsor: Sacramento Traditional
Commerce, Tracie A. Hampton, Admin Asst, 56020 Santa Fe
Jazz Society, James Jones, Publicity Dir, 2787 Del Monte Blvd,
Trail, Ste B, Yucca Valley, CA 92284.
Sacramento, CA 95691.
HEAD-OF-THE-MON-RIVER HORSESHOE TOURNA-
BASEBALL FIRST PLAYED UNDER THE LIGHTS: AN-
MENT. May 24-27. Fairmont, WV. Open to horseshoe pitchers
NIVERSARY. May 24. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Phil-
with a 1991 State/National Horseshoe Pitchers Assn member-
adelphia Phillies by|a score of 2-1, as more than 20,000 fans
ship card. Sponsor: Central Coca-Cola Bottling Co, Inc, Steve
enjoyed the first night baseball game in the major leagues on
Dumire, PO Box 1736, Fairmont, WV 26554. Info from: Tri-
May 24, 1935. The game was played at Crosley Field, Cincin-
County Horseshoe Club Dir, Charles M. Bunner, 508 Ohio Ave,
Fairmont, WV 26554.
nati, OH.
BELIZE: COMMONWEALTH DAY. May 24. Public holiday.
LEUTZE, EMANUEL: 175TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. May
24. Obscure itinerant painter, born in Germany, May 24, 1816,
BROOKLYN BRIDGE: OPENING ANNIVERSARY. May
came to US when 9 years old, began painting by age 15. Painted
24. Nearly 14 years in construction, the $16 million Brooklyn
some of most famous American works, such as Washington
Bridge over the East River opened May 24, 1883. Designed by
Crossing the Delaware, Washington Rallying the Troops at
John A. Roebling, the steel suspension bridge has a span of
Monmouth and Columbus Before the Queen. Died July 18,
1,595 feet.
1868.
BULGARIA: ENLIGHTENMENT AND CULTURE DAY.
MEMORIAL DAY BIRDING WEEKEND. May 24-27. Lake
May 24. National holiday festively celebrated by schoolchildren,
Terra Alta, Terra Alta, WV. Camping weekend with outdoor
students, people of science and art. Manifestations and con-
field trips to learn about and identify birds. Led by experts;
certs to express love for education and culture.
appropriate for all levels of experience. Info from: Oglebay
CARNIVAL '91. May 24-26. San Francisco, CA. Mardi gras-like
Institute, Nature Educ Dept, Oglebay Park, Wheeling, WV
revel embraces a parade, street festival and costume contest
26003.
where people indulge their fantasies through masquerade, mu-
MORSE OPENS FIRST US TELEGRAPH LINE: ANNI-
sic and dance. Annually, Memorial Day weekend. Sponsor:
VERSARY. May 24. On May 24, 1844, the first US telegraph
Mission Economic and Cultural Assn, Marcus Gordon, 3007
line was formally opened between Baltimore, MD, and Washing-
24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110.
ton, DC. Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first officially telegraphed
FEAST OF THE FLOWERING MOON. May 24-26. Yoctan-
words "What hath God wrought?" from the Capitol building to
gee Park, Chillicothe, OH. Native American powwow, moun-
Baltimore. Earlier messages had been sent along the historic
tainmen rendezvous, historical reenactments, arts, crafts, 5K
line during testing, and one, sent on May 1, contained the news
run, music and children's activities. Info from: Ross/Chillicothe
that Henry Clay had been nominated as president by the Whig
Convention and Visitor Bureau, Box 353, Chillicothe, OH
party, meeting in Baltimore. This message reached Washington
45601.
one hour prior to a train carrying the same news.
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1991
NAIA BASEBALL WORLD SERIES. May 24-30. Lewis Clark
ductions of children's adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Annu-
State College Lewiston. ID. Info from: Natl Assn of Intercolle-
ally, beginning Mother's Day weekend. Sponsor: Associated
giate Athletics. 1221 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64105.
Charities of the Chesapeake, Inc, PO Box 2349, Easton, MD
NEWHOUSE, SAMUEL I.: BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. May
21601.
24. Mysterious multimillionaire businessman who built family
publishing and communications empire. Born to immigrant par-
VICTORIA BOAT DISASTER: ANNIVERSARY. May 24.
ents in a New York City tenement on May 24, 1895, Newhouse
"On May 24, 1881, one of Canada's worst marine disasters
became "America's most profitable publisher." He accumulated
occurred on the Thames River (near London, Ontario). The
31 newspapers. : magazines, 6 television stations, 5 radio sta-
Victoria, a small, double-decked stern-wheeler commanded by
tions. 20 cade television systems. His success with the "bottom
Captain Donald Rankin, was conducting holiday excursion trips
line" in publishing and communications was without parallel. He
between London and Springbank Park. On a return trip to
died at New York. NY, Aug 29, 1979.
London the boat was dangerously overcrowded with more than
600 passengers, crowd repeatedly shifted from side to side
NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL. May 24-27. Seattle
resulting in flooding and a precarious rocking motion of the
Center. Seattle. U.A. A free celebration of international food,
boat. It finally heeled over and the boiler crashed through the
arts. musk and dance. More than 5,000 traditional performers
bulwarks, bringing the upper deck and large awning down upon
and artisans. Annually, Memorial Day weekend. Info from:
the struggling crowd. The Victoria sank immediately, and at
Northwest Folklite Fest, Kerry Coughlin, PR Dir, 305 Harrison
least 182 people, the majority from London, lost their lives."
St. Seattle. WA 98109.
Information taken from the historical marker erected near the
PALMER, LILLI: BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. May 24. Stage,
site by the Ontario Heritage Foundation Ministry of Culture and
screen and television actress Lilli Palmer was born Lillie Marie
Recreation.
Peiser. in Person. Poland, on May 24, 1914. She also painted
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OLD-TIME PIANO PLAYING
and was the author of several novels and an autobiography
titled Charge Lobsters-And Dance. She died at Los Angeles,
CONTEST. May 24-27. Holiday Inn, Decatur, IL. Competition
and festival of ragtime, honky-tonk and rinky-tink music. Spon-
CA, on Jan 1986.
sor: Old-Time Music Preservation Assn, Inc. Info from: Judy
PEALE. JAMES: DEATH ANNIVERSARY. May 24. Ameri-
Leschewski, 305 S Westlawn, Decatur, IL 62522.
can portra: and miniature painter (painted portraits of George
and Martha Washington and General Sir Thomas Shirley) was
born at Chestertown, MD, in 1749 (exact date unknown) and
BIRTHDAYS TODAY
died May 24. 1831.
Gary Burghoff, actor, born at Bristol, CT, May 24, 1934.
POSTCARD SHOW. May 24-25. Howard Johnson Hotel, Ha-
Jane Margaret Burke Byrne, former mayor of Chicago, born
at Chicago, IL, May 24, 1934.
gerstown. MD. Info from: Postcard Historical Society, John H.
McClintock. PO Box 1765, Manassas, VA 22110.
Roger Caras, nature writer, born at Methuen, MA, May 24, 1928.
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), composer, singer, born at
RIVERSPREE FESTIVAL. May 24-26. Elizabeth City, NC. A
Duluth, MN, May 24, 1941.
celebration a Ere on the river, featuring the facade of the James
Patti LaBelle, singer, born at Philadelphia, PA, May 24, 1944.
Adams Fleating Theatre. Sporting events, food, crafts, enter-
Frank Oz, puppeteer, born at Hereford, England, May 24, 1944.
tainment. Annually. Memorial Day weekend. Info from:
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, actress, ex-wife of Elvis Presley,
Chamber di Commerce, Box 426, Elizabeth City, NC 27907.
born at Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 1946.
Coleman Alexander Young, mayor of Detroit, MI, born at
SPACE MILESTONE: AURORA 7 MERCURY SPACE
Tuscaloosa, AL, May 24, 1918.
CAPSULE (US). May 24. Scott Carpenter becomes second
American to creit Earth. Three orbits. Launched May 24, 1962.
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA. May 24-June 9. Charleston, SC.
MAY 25 - SATURDAY
An international multi-disciplinary arts festival that offers more
145th Day - Remaining, 220
than 100 events in opera, chamber music, symphonic concerts,
theater, dance and art. Sponsor: Spoleto Festival USA, PO Box
AFRICAN FREEDOM DAY. May 25. Public holiday in Chad,
157. Charleston, SC 29401. Info from: South Carolina Parks,
Zambia and some other African states. Members of the Organi-
Recreation and Tourism, Dawn M. Dawson, Travel Writer, 1205
zation for African Unity (formed May 25, 1963) commemorate
Pendleton S:. Cola. SC 29201.
their independence from colonial rule. Sports contests, political
rallies and tribal dances.
SPRING FOLK DANCE CAMP. May 24-27. Camp Russel,
Wheeling. ut: This nationally-recognized Folk Dance Camp
ALABAMA JUBILEE. May 25-27. Point Mallard, Decatur, AL.
features national and international dances by dance leaders in
Hot-air balloon races, arts, crafts, antique cars, water and air
their field. Spensor: Oglebay Institute Visual and Creative Arts
shows. Annually, Memorial Day weekend. Info from: Decatur
Dept. Stife Fine Arts Ctr, 1330 National Rd, Wheeling, WV
Convention and Visitors Bureau, Jerry Paasch, Box 2349, De-
26003.
catur, AL 35602.
THE FESTIVAL- CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS. May
ALL-INDIAN RODEO AND PARADE. May 25-26. Klamath
24-June 2. Easton. MD. A fine art and fine craft show featuring
Falls, OR. Info from: Klamath Chamber of Commerce, 507 Main
nationally recognized entertainers, music, theatre, dance, wine
St, Klamath Falls, OR 97601.
and beer cardens and a food cafe, street performances and
ALMA HIGHLAND FESTIVAL AND GAMES. May 25-26.
strolling minstreis. Free continuous entertainment featuring
three outdoor stages and the Easton Children's Theatre pro-
Alma, MI. To host, promote and preserve the piping, drumming,
dancing, culture and tradition of the Scottish heritage. Annu-
ally, Memorial Day weekend. Info from: Chamber of Com-
merce, 110 W Superior St, PO Box 506, Alma, MI 48801.
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ARGENTINA: INDEPENDENCE DAY. May 25. Anniversary
of establishment of independent republic, following revolt of the
provinces against Spanish rule, May 25, 1810.
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Gibran Kahlil Gibran
1895
1883-1931
Born in Lebanon, Gibran Kahlil Gibran emigrated to the United
States in 1895 and settled in Boston, Mass. In 1898 he returned to
Lebanon to study Arabic. After settling back in the United States,
he exhibited a series of drawings in Boston in 1904. Among the im-
pressed was a wealthy lady, Mary Haskell, who became his benefac-
tress and confidante. Miss Haskell paid his expenses while studying
art in Paris.
Besides painting, writing and drawing, he headed a literary club of
Arabic-speaking emigré prose writers and poets living in the New
York area. Two publications, al-Funun and al-Sa'ih, served as the ve-
hicle for their innovative styles and thoughts. Gibran's publications
were exclusively in Arabic until 1918. After that he began to publish
in English. Among his many works are The Madman (1918), The
Forerunner (1920), The Prophet (1923), Sand and Foam (1926), Jesus the
Son of Man (1928), and The Earth Gods (1931). The Prophet stands out
as the most valuable. It is a series of 28 visionary prose poems on
such subjects as love, marriage, freedom, beauty, religion, and
death. Its central message is love which frees man from most ills of
this world.
Gibran died in New York on April 6, 1931 and was buried in his
hometown of Bsharri, very close to the enduring cedars of Lebanon.
PUBLIC LAW 98-537 [H.J.Res. 580]; October 19, 1984
KAHLIL GIBRAN MEMORIAL
Joint Resolution authorizing the Kahlil Gibron Centennial Foundation to establish . memorial in the
District of Columbia or its environs.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation is authorized to establish a
memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs
to honor the Lebanese-American poet and artist, Kahlil Gibran.
(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Foundation shall be respon-
sible for preparation of the design and plans for the memorial,
which shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the
Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital
Planning Commission.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior-
(1) with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the
National Capital Planning Commission, shall select a site, for
the memorial;
(2) shall not permit construction of the memorial to begin
unless the Secretary determines that sufficient amounts are
available for completion of the memorial in accordance with the
approved design and plans; and
(3) shall be responsible for maintenance of the memorial after
completion of construction.
SEC. 3. The United States shall not pay any expense of the
establishment of the memorial.
SEC. 4. The authority to establish the memorial under this resolu-
tion shall expire at the end of the five-year period beginning on the
date of the enactment of this resolution, unless construction of the
memorial begins during that period.
Approved October 19, 1984.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY-H.J. Res. 580:
HOUSE REPORT No. 98-1051 (Comm. on House Administration).
SENATE REPORT No. 98-640 (Comm. on Rules and Administration).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Vol. 130 (1984):
Sept. 24. considered and passed House.
Oct. 4. considered and passed Senate.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN - AN EXHIBIT
May 23, 1991
Near East Section
The Library of Congress
Washington, DC
READING LIST ON GIBRAN
(ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOKS)
'Ashur, Radwa. Gibran and Blake: a comparative study. Cairo: Associated
Institution for the Study and Presentation of Arab Cultural Values, 1978.
139 p.
PS3513.125 ZS5 1978
Bushrui, Suheil B., comp. Jibran Khalil Jibran: mukhtarat wa-dirasat. Beirut:
Dar al-Mashriq [1970] 16, 148, xvi, 165 P. illus.
PJ7826.12 Z58
Added t.p.: An introduction to Kahlil Gibran.
Chowdhry, Shiv Rai. Gibran: an introduction. [s.l.: s.n.] 1970 (Delhi: Javee)
26 P.
PJ7826.12 Z59
Daoudi, M.S. The meaning of Kahlil Gibran. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press,
1982. 146 p.
PS3513.125 Z63 1982
Fares, Lawrence T. The prophet in miniature; or Life in procession, by Kahlil
Gibran. Re-created, composed, and rhymed. Philadelphia: Dorrance
[1973] 42 p.
PR6056.A64 P7
Ghougassian, Joseph P. Kahlil Gibran: wings of thought; the people's
philosopher. New York: Philosophical Library [1973] 243 p. illus.
PJ7826.12 Z595
Gibran, Jean and Kahlil Gibran. Kahlil Gibran: his life and world. Boston:
New York Graphic Society, 1974. 442 P. illus.
PJ7826.12 Z615
Gibran of Lebanon: new papers. Edited by Suheil Badi Bushrui and Paul
Gotch. [Beirut] Librairie du Liban [1975] xxiv, 100 p. plates, illus.
PJ7826.12 Z617
Hawi, Khalil S. Kahlil Gibran: his background, character, and works.
Foreword by Nabih Amin Faris. Beirut, 1963. 311 p. facsims.
PJ7826.12 Z62
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A GARDEN
FOR GIBRAN
on
no
o be a good citizen, said Lebanese-
T
born writer, artist and philosopher
Kahlil Gibran to his fellow Arab-
Americans, "is to stand before the
towers of New York and Washing-
alserve buildy into
ton, Chicago and San Francisco, saying in
your heart, 1 am the descendant of a peo-
ple that built Damascus and Byblos, and
Tyre and Sidon and Antioch, and now I am
here to build with you
On a rain-drenched afternoon last
autumn, one of the cities he named
remembered Gibran. In a ceremony at a
wooded site off Massachusetts Avenue in
northwest Washington, D.C., hundreds of
Gibran's American admirers - from tele-
vision comedian Flip Wilson to Congress-
women Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio - wit-
nessed the symbolic planting of three
nine-meter (30-foot) cedars of Lebanon on
the spot where a meditation garden dedi-
cated to the writer's memory would soon
take shape.
The October 17 groundbreaking, pre-
sided over by United States Secretary of
the Interior Manuel Lujan, marked the cul-
CEDAR OF LEBANON
mination of a five-year effort by the Kahlil
Gibran Centennial Foundation to raise a
million dollars to construct the garden.
The non-profit group, with the help of its
honorary chairman, former President
Jimmy Carter, raised the money through
private donations, fund-raising receptions
and black-tie dinners in Atlanta, Canton,
Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Miami,
Orlando, Los Angeles and elsewhere
across the United States. One event, at
New York's Ukrainian Institute, featured
an exhibition of Gibran's paintings;
another, in Dallas, honored one-time
Federal Aviation Administration director
and Pan American World Airways presi-
dent Najeeb Halaby.
Oilman Michel T. Halbouty, who was
honored in Houston along with heart
surgeon Michael DeBakey, another Texan
of Lebanese descent, told the more than
500 people attending the fund-raising
dinner there that Kahlil Gibran's essays,
WRITTEN BY LARRY LUXNER
novels and paintings had been a source of
ILLUSTRATIONS COURTESY OF
personal inspiration to him for more than
HELLMUTH, OBATA & KASSABAUM
60 years.
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lead the visitor to the entry terrace
of the glade, with its fountain pool
and relief portrait of Gibran.
GROUND ONLY
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"He was born in the shadows of the
the ecumenical spirit of Kahlil Gibran's
cedars of Lebanon, and no one before him
writings. It was important in determining
or since has exhibited such a beautiful
our site that it lie within walking distance
approach to life and its meaning," Hal-
of both the Islamic Center and the
bouty said. "Gibran represented the soul
National Cathedral. Gibran respected all
of Lebanon. His writings reach the deepest
religions."
recesses of the reader's emotional and spir-
Ameen and others involved in the pro-
itual awareness. He loved Lebanon with a
ject are Americans of Middle Eastern back-
passion matched only by his correspond-
ground who felt that the anniversary of
ing love for its people." (See Aramco World,
Gibran's birth would be a wonderful
July-August 1970).
opportunity to put a more human face on
Clearly, Gibran also loved his adopted
the Middle East. "I think it's important
country, the United States. A native of the
that, symbolically, there be a peaceful
Lebanese mountain village of Bisharri, he
Lebanon to balance the present reality of a
emigrated to Boston in 1895 with his
war-torn Lebanon," she said.
mother, his half-brother and his two youn-
"As Americans, we also felt this would
ger sisters when he was 12 years old. Two
be a wonderful way to give something
years later, he returned to Lebanon to
back to America. That is why, instead of
study Arabic and Arabic literature, gradu-
putting up a statue, we wanted to build a
ating from Beirut's Maronite Catholic Mad-
garden. It is more in the spirit of Gibran."
rasat al-Hikmah (School of Wisdom).
Ameen, an art historian, led the push to
Young Kahlil (the unconventional trans-
win Congressional approval for the
literation of his name that he preferred)
memorial - required for all such projects
returned to the United States in 1903 and
within the District of Columbia. The spon-
except between 1908 and 1910, when he
sorship of Senators George Mitchell of
studied art in Paris, he lived and worked in
Maine and Edward Kennedy of Mas-
Boston and New York for the remainder of
sachusetts, then-Senator Dan Quayle of
his life. He wrote prolifically, at first pri-
Indiana, and Representatives Chick Kazan
marily in Arabic, later in English, author-
of Texas and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio also
ing more than a dozen books in all; most of
helped get the memorial approved -
them he also illustrated. Collections of
before passage of the 1986 Commemora-
Gibran's works have been translated into
tive Works Act, which limited the number
more than 50 languages.
of memorials that can be erected on
In Gibran's last book, The Wanderer, pub-
federal property.
lished shortly before his death in 1931, he
After 1986, Ameen said, only monu-
used simple yet beautiful parables to
ments with a broad consensus appeal
explain love, charity, aging and other
were likely to have been authorized, and
themes - often couching his writing in the
Gibran's all-embracing humane values,
form of conversations between frogs, tree
although of historic and lasting value to
branches and blades of grass as well as
America as a whole, might have been over-
between ordinary humans.
shadowed by his ethnic background. Yet,
But Gibran is best-known for his 1923
she added, "he was very much influenced
book, The Prophet, now in its 109th printing,
by American writers and the American
which has sold some eight million copies
political system. Many of his ideas about
over the years. Quotes from The Prophet
peace and brotherhood were based on his
will adorn the upper terrace of the garden
experiences in this country."
to be built in Gibran's memory, according
Keeping that in mind, the Ninety-eighth
to Sheryl Dekour Ameen. She founded the
Congress passed Public Law 98-537 on
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation in
October 19, 1984; it authorized the Kahlil
1983, the 100th anniversary of the poet's
Gibran memorial to be built on federal
birth (See Aramco World, March-April
land, though with private funds. Three
1983). The garden will also have fountains,
years later, the National Capital Memorial
stone benches, and Islamic designs on
Committee approved an 8,000-square-
granite, patterned after those found at the
meter (two-acre) site on Massachusetts
Beiteddin Palace in Lebanon.
Avenue, halfway up the hill which con-
Affixed to a fountain wall where the
nects the city's principal mosque with the
paved path enters the garden, a portrait of
National Cathedral, and directly across
Gibran by sculptor Gordon Kray will gaze
from the British Embassy.
across the length of a pool to a bronze dove
Finally, last June, the District of Col-
rising to fly from a waterspout.
umbia's Fine Arts Commission gave its
"We're trying to fashion it into a medita-
okay to the memorial's design, conceived
tion garden," Ameen told Aramco World.
by the architectural and planning firm
"Fountains have always symbolized the
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum. The
source of spirituality. We've really stressed
firm's previous credits include the under-
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"Hundreds of years later, when the people of the
city arose from the diseased slumber of ignorance
and saw the dawn of knowledge, they erected ii
monument in the most beautiful garden of the
city and celebrated a feast every year in honour of
that poet. whose writings had freed them. Oh how
cruel is man's ignorance!"
-The Poet's Death is His Life-
here is a quiet space in a busy city
where people of all races, na-
tionalities and creeds will soon be
able to go to experience the spirit of poetry
and enjoy the sweet repose of solitude. It is
a place that celebrates a man who devoted
his art to uniting humanity and elevating
the human condition.
After years of efforts by those who admire
and are inspired by his writing and his art,
Kahlil Gibran will be commemorated on a
U.S. National Park site dedicated in his
name by the Kahlil Gibran Centennial
Foundation of Washington, D.C.
Legislative contact during months of Foun-
dation efforts led to authorization of this
memorial garden by a joint resolution of
the 98th United States Congress on
October 19, 1984.
The Foundation hopes to enhance this trib-
ute to Gibran with a traveling exhibition of
his art work. In the future, the Foundation
will seek support to establish a repository in
the United States for his literary manu-
scripts, art and memorabilia.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN
THE MEMORIAL
1883 - 1931
"I believe in you and I believe in your destiny. 1
believe that you have inherited from your fore-
fathers an ancient dream, a song, a prophecy,
ahlil Gibran and his family came to
which you can proudly lay as a gift of gratitude
America seeking the artistic, re-
upon the lap of America."
ligious and economic freedom
-I Believe in You-
sought by the millions of other emigrants
who form the fabric of American culture.
His sojourn from the Lebanese village of
n October 19, 1989, the Founda-
Besharri took him to Boston and a life of
poverty. He soon overcame the trials of
tion held a groundbreaking ceT-
starting life in a new country through the
emony on the site of the Kahlil Gi-
bran Memorial Garden, with Secretary of
courageous vision and literary talents he
possessed and then gave to his adopted
Interior Manual Lujan officiating. The me-
country. By his death at 48. Gibran, both an
morial occupies a prestigious location on
Embassy Row in our nation's capital. Its
artist and a writer, had become a literary
giant bequeathing to the people of all na-
neighbors include the British Embassy,
Winston Churchill Park, and the residence
tions a prodigious body of work.
of the Vice President of the United States.
Inspiring the creation of his own school of
Construction on the memorial began in
Arabic literature, Gibran also significantly
October, 1990, with a scheduled comple-
influenced untold generations of Amer-
tion date of April, 1991. Charles H. Tomp-
icans through his English writings and
translations of his Arabic work. His mes-
kins Company, construction contractor for
the memorial, was responsible for the East
sages of tolerance and compassion remain
a symbol of unity, democracy and peace for
Wing of the National Gallery and the recent
renovation of the east face of the Capitol, as
people all over the world. Over eight mil-
lion copies of The Prophet have been sold
well as the Iwo Jima Memorial. Hellmuth.
Obata and Kassabaum, architects for the
and collections of Gibran's work have been
translated into more than 50 languages. He
memorial garden, are known for the design
continues to be one of the most widely
of the National Air and Space Muscum, the
World Bank and the National Archives.
quoted authors in the United States and ex-
cerpts from his work are often used by polit-
ical. religious. and business leaders.
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THE DEDICATION
he 1991 dedication of the Kahlil Gi-
Visitors to the memorial will cross a foot-
bran Memorial Garden marks the
bridge to a garden, in which fountains and
passage from dream to reality for
sculpture will create a serene and con-
thousands of contributors from throughout
templative environment. A sculpture of Gi-
the United States and around the world. We
bran will greet them as they enter the me-
invite you now to become a part of this im-
morial and, as they reach the center of the
portant dedication and tribute to Gibran's
garden's wooded hillside, they will en-
bequest.
counter a fountain surrounded by cedars
President and Mrs. Bush are honorary Co-
of Lebanon. Gibran quotations will be
Chairmen of the dedication committee.
carved into the memorial's limestone
which is preparing a weekend of dedication
benches.
events during the Memorial Day weekend,
May 23 -27, 1991. People of all nations will
be brought together to celebrate Gibran.
his work and the spirit imbued in all people
who come to the United States seeking free-
dom and basic human rights. Activities will
include a dedication ceremony on the site,
a reading of Gibran's poetry at the Library
of Congress, a special awards banquet and
a gala evening for the performing and crea-
tive arts.
You are invited to join President and Mrs.
Bush. Jamie Farr, Casey Kasem, Danny
Thomas and Flip Wilson, among other ce-
lebrities of national and international
prominence, to be featured at events
throughout the weekend.
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YOUR DONATION
Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden
Dedication Committee
IS A LEGACY
The President and Mrs. Bush
Honorary Co-Chairmen
be Foundation seeks your support
in order to complete construction
Peter S. Tanous (U.S. Army. Retired)
and maintain the memorial. Leave
Chairman
a legacy for future generations by sending
your tax-deductible contribution today.
Adelene Abercia
Your contribution to the Memorial Garden
Vice Chairman
will be enjoyed by you and millions of vis-
Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation
itors to the nation's capital.
Board of Directors
Please do not delay. We need your help.
William J. Baroody, Jr.
The names of donors of $25,000 or more
Chairman and President
will be encased in a time capsule at the Me-
Sheryl Dekour Ameen
morial and all donors will be recorded in
Executive Director/Cultural Affairs
the National Archives, the resting place of
William A. Anawaty, Jr.
the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of In-
Executive Director/Operations
dependence. All donors will be recognized
in Foundation literature and dedication ac-
Adelene Abercia
tivities. as well.
Robert S. Andrews
Anthony Asher
Please contribute to this lasting tribute to
Munir Barakat
Kahlil Gibran.
Alice Edde
Samia Farouki
Antoine G. Ghafari
William M. Isaac
Nadeem Maasry
Mae Moussa
Talat M. Othman
Camille F. Sarrouf
Lawrence J. Shibley
The Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation is established in
Alexander A. Simon, Jr.
the District of Columbia as " 501 (()(3) nontrofit
organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent
Peter J. Tanous
provided by law.
Harry M. Zachem
Mary Faye Dudley
Assistant to Chairman/Director Special Projects
Kahlil Gibran Centennial
Cosponsors of S.J. Res. 301
Foundation Honorary Committee
James Abdnor (South Dakota)
The Honorable Jimmy Carter
Lloyd Bentsen (Texas)
Chairman
Rudy Boschwitz (Minnesota)
A. Robert Abboud
Alan J. Dixon (Illinois)
The Honorable Victor Atiyeh
Christopher Dodd (Connecticut)
Robert J. Dole (Kansas)
Michael E. Baroody
Pete V. Domenici (New Mexico)
William Peter Blatty
Orin Hatch (Utab)
Richard A. Debs
Paula Hawkins (Florida)
Mrs. Johnson Garrett
John Heinz (Pennsylvania)
Daniel K. Inouye (Hawaii)
Vartan Gregorian
Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts)
The Honorable Armin H. Meyer
Paul Laxalt (New Mexico)
The Honorable Claiborne Pell
Carl M. Levin (Michigan)
Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii)
S. Dillon Ripley
George J. Mitchell (Maine)
Danny Thomas
Sam Nunn (Georgia)
Robert M. Warner
Claiborne Pell (Rhode Island)
Flip Wilson
Charles H. Percy (Illinois)
Larry Pressler (South Dakota)
Dan Quayle (Indiana)
Donald W. Riegle (Michigan)
Paul S. Sarbannes (Maryland)
John Warner (Virginia)
Pete Wilson (California)
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Cosponsors in the
House of Representatives
Mike Andrews (Texas)
Robert E. Badham (California)
Jim Bates (California)
Howard Berman (California)
Sherwood Bochlert (California)
David F.. Bonior (Michigan)
C. Robin Britt (North Carolina)
John Conyers, (Michigan)
George W. Crockett. Jr. (Michigan)
George Darden (Georgia)
E. de la Garza (Texas)
Ronald V. Dellums (California)
Mervyn Dymally (California)
Dante B. Fascell (Florida)
Edward F. Feighan (Ohio)
Barney Frank (Massachusetts)
Bill Frenzel (Minnesota)
Martin Frost (Texas)
Don Fuqua (Florida)
Henry B. Gonzales (Texas)
Albert Gore. Jr. (Tennessee)
William H. Gray, III (Pennsylvania)
Frank Horton (New York)
Abraham Kazen (Texas)
Dale E. Kildec (Michigan)
Tom Lantos (California)
Mickey Leland (Texas)
Sander M. Levin (Michigan)
Mel Levine (California)
Bill Lowery (California)
Thomas A. Luken (Ohio)
Edward Markey (Massachuserts)
Alan B. Mollohan (West Virginia)
Austin J. Murphy (Pennsylvania)
John P. Murtha (Pennsylvania)
Mary Rose Oakar (Ohio)
Claude Pepper (Florida)
NickJ. Raball (West Virginia)
William R. Ratchford (Connecticut)
Bill Richardson (New Mexico)
Robert A. Roc (New Jersey)
Neal Smith (Iowa)
Charles W, Stenholm (Texas)
Louis Stokes (Ohio)
Lindsay Thomas (Georgia)
Bob Traxier (Michigan)
Morris Udall (Arizona)
Guy Vander Jagt (Michigan)
Bruce F. Vento (Minnesota)
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of 1970.
Leen, Jason. The death of the prophet as remembered by Almitra. Happy
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Naimy, Nadeem N. The Lebanese prophets of New York. [Beirut] American
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KG once surote that "Remerbrance is a form
of meeting." So in This pages as an
this grounds this great man we
meet again.
KG "The significance of man is not
in what he atains, but nathe in
what he longs to attain."
Bihan ant is of longing for knowledge,
for truth and love + beauty His words
push the fail bunds of world experines
in a reach for the unknown + the
an met. His work is an cetenal
horizon which one may approach yet
never attain
RG: "Beauty 15 etemity sazing at itself in a unimer."
The web one cannot see get
cannot see beyond
(Grossman/Smith)
May 17, 1991
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAL, MAY 24, 1991
Ladies and Gentlemen. I am honored to be able to dedicate weak
this garden to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through
poetry, for people. / // My wife and I have been pleased to serve
as honorary Co-Chairmen of the dedication committee. And now
that I see the beauty of this park, slace I am struck by that
committee's dedication. It's daunting to give a speech about a
man who played speech like a song. So, I'll be brief,
remembering, as the poet once said, "in much of talking,
thinking is half murdered " "yountalk when you clase to be at peace c-1
heart. Across memorial the street I lived eight years of my life. But
This spot where we now stand maintains a special place in my your Thoughts"
this dedication renders this spot more special still --- by being honoring
named for a man who lifted candour with cadence, and lent song to
truth.
The beauty and and grace of this garden leads the eye in a
sweep that is, indeed, poetry in motion. These Cedars of Lebanon
will someday canope this glendof meditation, as their shade once
sheltered the birth of a poet. The street graced by this garden
is named for the state where these Gibran's Renches American journey began.
And the words carved on this stone are the one's his legacy has
etched on our collective conscious. And as that footbridge
brings into his garden, so his words led us to the thresholds of
our own minds. That he taught us
your friend is your needs answered
"you
are
The line that "work is love made visible,' is not only one
good
that Gibran wrote, it is one that he lived.
who you
stain
philosopher
Part poet, part prophet, he is the man that discovered the
secret of the sea in a drop of dew. Poetry was the language in
to give of
yourself
which he explored his soul // and ours. And when he spoke of the
realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil we cannot see,
yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were unused to climb,
and showed us what he saw: the promise of a kinder, gentler
world.
As we survey our world today, we do see progress, but we
also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the need to renew
Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a world too
often at odds rather than at peace, carrying his voice into the
mind that moves the hand that runs the state. [plea for peace in
the Middle East, see skinny legs] clin Libanin sthnife to natried mock
the words of the pact that land sure
Other contries
"Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a page
of light.' The hand is his, and the page / our hearts.
heaging bets
mistrust
build defenses building trust
a done you
Hagan
my brother
Two sons b
whoever you
whether you unshipin
your chuck
done can rise like
kneeling in your
timple an pray
peace are has become the
prodigal sen
in you mosgue
we are all children
of the same being supreme
done may rise as the
phoenix
Prefer to bala the mead of
affiretent to upon Bread the waters
(Grossman/Smith)
May 17, 1991
Draft One
RASUL
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991 9:30am
Ladies and Gentlemen. It's an honor to dedicate this garden
to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through poetry, for
all of us.
Barbara and I were pleased to serve as honorary Co-
Chairmen of the dedication committee. And now that I see the
beauty of this place, I'm struck by that committee's dedication.
They, and those that contributed to this memorial have offered
who offered
this park as partial payment to the debt we owe Gibran.
his work song prophecy (laid) gift of patitude
This spot where we now stand holds a special place in my upon they
toy of
heart. For eight years, I lived up the street with my family.
American
But this memorial renders this place more special still -- by
honoring a man who enlivened candor with cadence, and lent song
to truth.
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of meeting."
So, in this garden, we meet that great man again. The graceful
symmetry and slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
is, indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. His words carved on these benches echo
those he has etched on our memory. And as the entrance
footbridge brings us into his garden, SO his work "leads (us) to
the thresholds of (our) own mind."
Perhaps his greatest bequest was the key by which we opened
our own imaginations. His was not poetry for the passive, but
for the participant. He wrote that the wisest teacher reveals
"that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your
knowledge." His poetry sounded that reveille with a song of
beauty and truth.
When Gibran said that "work is love made visible," " those
were not just words that he wrote, they were words that he lived.
Part poet, part philosopher -- he extracted 'the secret of the
sea (from) a drop of dew. I Poetry was the language in which he
explored his soul, and taught us about ours. And when he spoke
of the realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil we cannot
see, yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were unused to
climb, and shared what he saw: the promise of a kinder, gentler
world.
As we survey today's world, we see progress towards Gibran's
vision, but we also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the need
to renew Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a world
too often at odds \ rather than at peace. Perhaps nowhere is this
more important than in the Middle East, Gibran's homeland, where
peace still wanders as the region's prodigal son.
[That region gave us a symbol of peace in Gibran. It is
cruel irony that those lands now suffer the strife of hatred and
fear. Our Administration's efforts are premised by those words
Bill just quoted: "We are all children of the same supreme
being. " That is why we must strive to turn the bitter cycle of
3
demanding an eye for an eye, into one of offering a hand for a
hand. We shall continue our efforts to help bring peace back
home to this vital and historic part of the world, so that
someday, its 'bread of affliction' may become 'bread cast upon
the waters. ']
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light. " The hand is his, and the
page our hearts. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen,
and God bless the United States of America.
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that footbridge us brings into his garden, so his words 'led us
to the thresholds of our own minds. I
There, he taught us that the souls of our children "dwell in
two,
the house of tommorrow," and that sadness is merely "a wall
between two gardens. " We learned that a "friend is (our) needs
develop
answered," and that "when you give of yourself you truly give. "
one signed to that spirt
His work answered our needs with a gift of beauty, and his gift
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for truth.
Gibran's line that "work is love made visible," is not just
words that he wrote wrote, they are words that he lived. Part
poet, part philosopher -- he is the man who discovered 'the
secret of the sea in a drop of dew.' Poetry was the language in
which he explored his soul, and taught us of ours. And when he
spoke of the realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil we
cannot see, yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were
unused to climb, and showed us what he saw: the promise of a
kinder, gentler world.
As we survey today's world, we do indeed see progress, but
we also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the need to renew
Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a world too
often at odds / rather than at peace. [Perhaps nowhere is this
more important than in the Middle East, where peace still [wanders
as the region's prodigal son.
?
I know you all share my hopes for Secretary Baker's success
in his peace-seeking mission. Our Administration's efforts are
premised by those words Bill just quoted: "We are all children of
the same supreme being." That is why we must strive to turn the
bitter cycle of demanding an eye for an eye, into one of offering
a hand for a hand. We shall continue our efforts to help bring
peace back home to this vital and historic part of the world, so
that someday, its 'bread of affliction' may become 'bread cast
upon the waters. Ive?
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light. " The hand is his, and the
page / our hearts. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, and
God bless the United States of America.
(Grossman/Smith)
May 17, 1991
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAL, MAY 24, 1991
Ladies and Gentlemen. I Monored to be able to dedicate
this garden to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through
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This spot where we now stand holds a special place in my
heart. For eight years, I lived up the street with my family.
But this memorial renders this place more special still -- by
honoring a man who lifted candor with cadence, and lent song to
truth.
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of greeting."
greet
So, in this garden, that great man we meet again. The graceful
symmetry and slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
is indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. The avenue that leads here recalls the
state that first welcomed Gibran to America. The words carved on
these benches echo those he has etched on our memory. And as
Kurk.
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May 17, 1991
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more important than in the Middle East, where peace still wanders
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I know you all share my hope for Secretary Baker's success
in his peace-seeking mission. Our administration's efforts are
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May 17, 1991
Draft One
RASUL
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
GIBRAN MEMORIAL GARDEN
FRIDAL, MAY 24, 1991
Ladies and Gentlemen. It's an honor to dedicate this garden
to a man who has done so much for poetry, and through poetry, for
us all. / My wife and I were pleased to serve as honorary Co-
Chairmen of the dedication committee. And now that I see the
beauty of this place, I'm struck by that committee's dedication.
// It's daunting to give a speech about a man who raised speech
to the highest registers of art. So, I'll be brief, remembering,
as Gibran once said, "in much of talking, thinking is half
have said
murdered." ((Some might say that in much of my speech, talking
is half murdered. ) )
This spot where we now stand holds a special place in my
heart. For eight years, I lived up the street with my family.
But this memorial renders this place more special still -- by
honoring a man who lifted candor with cadence, and lent song to
truth.
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of meeting." "
So, in this garden, we meet that great man again. The graceful
symmetry and slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
is, indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. The avenue that leads here recalls the
state that first welcomed Gibran to America. The words carved on
these benches echo those he has etched on our memory. And as
that footbridge us brings into his garden, so his words 'led us
to the thresholds of our own minds. I
There, he taught us that the souls of our children "dwell in
the house of tommorrow," and that sadness is merely "a wall
between two gardens. " We learned that a "friend is (our) needs
answered, " and that "when you give of yourself. you truly give. "
His work answered our needs with a gift of beauty, and his gift
for truth.
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words that he wrote wrote, they are words that he lived. Part
poet, part philosopher -- he is the man who discovered 'the
secret of the sea in a drop of dew.' Poetry was the language in
about
which he explored his soul, and taught us of ours. And when he
spoke of the realm of the spirit, his words pressed the veil we
cannot see, yet cannot see beyond. He drew us where we were
unused to climb, and showed us what he saw: the promise of a
kinder, gentler world.
As we survey today's world, we do indeed see progress, but
we also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the need to renew
Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a world too
often at odds / rather than at peace. [Perhaps nowhere is this
more important than in the Middle East, where peace still wanders
as the region's prodigal son.
I know you all share my hopes for Secretary Baker's success
in his peace-seeking mission. Our Administration's efforts are
3
premised by those words Bill just quoted: "We are all children of
the same supreme being. " That is why we must strive to turn the
between Anabs (sallis
bitter cycle of demanding an eye for an eye, into one of offering
a hand for a hand. We shall continue our efforts to help bring
peace back home to this vital and historic part of the world, so
that someday, its 'bread of affliction' may become 'bread cast
upon the waters. '] Elsewhere, in lebone
Gibran once wrote, "love is a word of light, written by a
hand of light, upon a page of light. " The hand is his, and the
page / our hearts. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, and
God bless the United States of America.
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THE SUCCESSFUL TOASTMASTER
Freedom is never fully won at any given time or place.-Senator
Everett Dirksen
735
No Experience Necessary
Reader's Digest reprinted an advertisement which was originally
published, deadpan, in the Mines Magazines. The ad read: "Wanted:
man to work on nuclear fissionable isotope molecular reactive coun-
ters and three-phase cyclotronic uranium photosynthesizers. No ex-
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perience necessary."
And there is as much truth as humor in that, too. For how do you
far
find experienced men in a field that never existed before? Yet, these
qua
new fields are opening up every day, with new products and new pro-
cesses that will again be obsolete tomorrow.-Roger M. Blough
736
Poets
The fact that Keats was the son of a stableman who married the
daughter of a livery-stable keeper, or that Byron was the lineal de-
scendant of Scottish kings, or that Burns was born in a thatched-roof
home, or that Longfellow entered the world in comparative luxury-
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such facts may be interesting but I doubt that they tell us very much
about the poet himself. The most authentic source of information
is from the wealth of poetry which they gave to their generation and
subsequently to the world. It is in their verse that they revealed the
quality of their souls, the truths which put them to the test, the con-
victions that were basic to their thinking, and the faith which nurtured
them.-Dr. Robert J. Lamont
737
Farewell
It is February 11, 1861, and in Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lin-
coln is about to leave for Washington. The skies are overcast with
clouds and a gentle rain is falling. About 1000 neighbors and friends
are gathered at the station to see their fellow townsman off on his
hazardous journey. Just before the train pulls from the station, Lin-
P
coln comes to the rear platform of the last car, and, lifting his hand
in a voice choked with emotion, he says:
P
My friends: no one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling
of sadness at this parting. To this place and the kindness of these
people I owe everything. Here I have lived for a quarter of a century
7
and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have
been born and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or
whether ever I may return, with a task resting upon me greater than
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"Tell me," said Hodges, "how did you happen to hit upon the idea
of giving such an extraordinary present?"
The gentleman said: "The other day a young fellow whom I had not
seen since he was a kid about my boy's age, came into my office to
'make a touch.' His face and bearing carried the telltale marks of idleness
and dissipation. He was simply a human derelict. 'Robert!' I exclaimed in
amazement, 'to see you like this!-and you with such a father.' 'Well,
I've often heard that Dad was a fine man,' the boy answered. 'All his
friends have told me so. I never knew him. He was so much occupied
with his business and his clubs that I only saw him occasionally at meals.
I never really knew him.'
"That made me 'to think furiously,' as the French say, and believe me,
from now on I'm going to see to it that my boy has a chance to know
me."-House Magazine, Chase Bag Company
1435
Universities
Our universities are really multiversities; students tend to know a little
about a lot, but not very much about anything. No longer is the classroom
the bailiwick of the absent-minded professor, with pipe, shabby tweed
suit, and genial befuddlement. In his place is the "new" professor-
consultant, coordinator, diplomat, TV personality. Like his industrial
counterpart, he is geared to a cold war emergency psychology. "Should
peace come," one critic observes, "turmoil on the campus would be as
great as it would be in munitions."-Marshall W. Fishwick, Saturday
Review
1436
Success
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the
position that one has reached, as by the obstacles which he has over-
come while trying to succeed.-Booker T. Washington
1437
Peace
Only 8 per cent of the time since the beginnings of recorded history
X
has the world spent entirely at peace, according to statistics. In 3521
years, only 286 have been warless. Eight thousand treaties have been
broken in this time.-Sunshine Magazine
1438
Don Quixote
There was a man who wrote novels and stories and poems by the
hundreds. Then he joined up as a mercenary in an European army, and
his side was beaten, so he was imprisoned. He was glad; now he had time
to write, without worrying too much about his meals or about his wife,
who seemed to specialize in aggravating him. So he began a novel. He
finished one chapter and read it to his fellow prisoners; they liked it. He
finished another chapter and read this one also to the prisoners; they
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Past
2128 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
Past and Future
2129 I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the
past.-Thomas Jefferson
2130 We are made wise not by the recollections of our past, but by the
responsibilities of our future.-George Bernard Shaw
Patience
2131 A man who is master of patience is master of everything else.-
Lord Halifax
2132 He that can have patience can have what he will.Benjamin
Franklin
2133
Patience is the art of hoping.-Luc de Vauvenargues
Peace
2134 It is better to be a dog in peaceful times than to be a man in
times of unrest.-Chinese proverb
2135
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.-Cicero
2136 Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.
-Winfield Scott
2137 If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both com-
plicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and
nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.-Adlai
Stevenson
Perplexity
2138 In all perplexity there is a portion of fear, which predisposes
the mind to anger.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2139 Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that
worry the well-to-do.-William Feather
Persecution
2140 Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.-Sir
Thomas Browne
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2152 Heaven arms with pity those whom it would not see destroyed.
-Lao-tse
Pleasure
2153 One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in
avoiding calamities.-Chinese proverb
2154 We must tooth and nail retain the use of this life's pleasures,
which our years snatch from us one after another.-Montaigne
2155 Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest
blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.-Samuel Johnson
2156 That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.-Henry
David Thoreau
2157 The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one,
and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very
few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.-William Sharp
Poet
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2158
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.-Oscar Wilde
Poetry
2159
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down
the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.-Don Marquis
Poor
2160 I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me
the true value of the gifts useful to life.-Anatole France
2161 If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your
life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because
I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.-Arnold
Bennett
Poverty
2162 The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the
worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.-William James
2163 Poverty does not produce unhappiness; it produces degradation.
-George Bernard Shaw
2164 He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.-Mark Twain
2165 The greatest man in history was the poorest.-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
USEFUL QUOTATIONS FROM LITERATURE
461
Principle
2187 It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than
to put one principle into practice.-Leo Tolstoy
Prison
It are pro-
2188
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.-George
Bernard Shaw
Probability
ning which
IT coopera-
2189 It is better to be satisfied with probabilities than to demand im-
possibilities and starve.-Schiller
Prodigal
2190 Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the
ise as I am
fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
an in this
-Saki
Professional
2191
One of the great differences between the amateur and the pro-
reedom of
fessional is that the latter has the capacity to progress.-W. Somerset
Maugham
S of liberty
Progress
orge Mason
2192 True progress quietly and persistently moves along without
notice.-St. Francis de Sales
g mischief.
2193 All progress is based upon a universal desire on the part of every
organism to live beyond its income.-Samuel Butler
2194 What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another
nuisance.-Havelock Ellis
the value
Promising
2195
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.-Cyril
Connolly
Prophecy
2196
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
-George Eliot
Prophet
2197 The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
lliam Knox
-Lord Halifax
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PATIENCE
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a
man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will
àcquire the skill to do difficult things easily. JOHANN VON SCHILLER
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
KIN HUBBARD
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too
fast.
MAY SARTON
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Patience is needed with everyone, but first of all with ourselves.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
PEACE
Back of tranquillity lies always conquered unhappiness.
DAVID GRAYSON
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us
have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that
make for peace and freedom.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor
blame.
THOMAS À KEMPIS
It takes two to make peace.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
PERSONALITY
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the
human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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PLEASURE
4626 The first thing men do when they have renounced pleasure, through
decency, lassitude, or for the sake of health, is to condemn it in
others. Jean de La Bruyère
4627 Pleasure is more trouble than trouble. Don Herold
4628 If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4629 Business first, pleasure afterward, as King Richard the Third said,
when he stabbed t'other king in the Tower, afore he smothered the
babies. Charles Dickens
4630 I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Don Herold
4631 The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
4632 Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
4633 No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man
ever knows what a pleasure is. Ibid.
4634 Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda water the day after. Lord Byron
PLUCK
4635 Pluck is not so common nowadays as genius. Oscar Wilde
PLUMBING
4636 When we were finishing our house, we found we had a little cash
left over, on account of the plumber not knowing it. Mark Twain
4637 Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resource-
fulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. George Meany
4638 When you consider how indifferent Americans are to the quality
and cooking of the food they put into their insides, it cannot but
strike you as peculiar that they should take such pride in the
mechanical appliances they use for its excretion. W. Somerset
Maugham
POET
4639 A poet can survive anything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde
4640 It is the business of reviewers to watch poets, not of poets to
watch reviewers. William Hazlitt
4641 My quarrel with poets is not that they are unclear but that they
are too diligent. E. B. White
4642 Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves
understand. Plato
4643 Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner
4644 Modern poets talk against business. poor things, but all of us write
for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market, poor things.
Robert Frost
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4645 I don't call myself a poet yet. It's for the world to say whether
you're a poet or not. I'm one-half teacher, one-half poet and one-
half farmer; that's three halves. Ibid.
4646 The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to
be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said: "How can I know
what I think till I see what I say?" Graham Wallas
4647 You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suf-
fering for anyone. John Ciardi
4648 Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observa-
tion, one of the things they are most sensitive about is cash. Robert
Penn Warren
4649 A poet makes a great mistake if he thinks of himself as moored
halfway up to heaven, away from humanity. C. Day Lewis
4650 A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet.
So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing
prose. Samuel McChord Crothers
4651 I have never known a poet who did not think himself super-excel-
lent. Cicero
4652 Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool;
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet. Alexander Pope
4653 I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. I would feel
enormous satisfaction in being regarded as the voice of the average
American. Thornton Wilder
4654 The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. Jean Cocteau
4655 Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a
certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington Macaulay
4656 Tennyson is a beautiful half of a poet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4657 There is no more self-assured man than a bad poet. Martial
4658 A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
POETRY
4659 It is easier to write a mediocre poem than to understand a good
one. Michel de Montaigne
4660 Meredith "Poetry," said Emilia, "seems like talking on tiptoe." George
4661 She warn't particular: she could write about anything you choose
to give her to write about just so it was sadful. Every time a man
died. or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with
her "tribute" before he was cold. She called them tributes. The
neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline but once, and
then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which
was Whistler. She warn't ever the same after that; she never com-
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plained, but she kinder pined away and did not live long. Mark
Twain
4662
A poem is no place for an idea. Edgar W. Howe
4663 Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. Max-
well Bodenheim
4664 Uhland's poetry was like the famous war horse Bayard: it possesses
all possible virtues and only one fault: it is dead. Heinrich Heine
4665 It is indeed a pity that our great public knows so little about poetry;
almost as little. in fact, as our poets. Ibid.
4666 Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. Oscar Wilde
4667 Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that
are never met. lbid.
4668 There are two ways of disliking poetry: one way is to dislike it,
the other is to read Pope. Ibid.
4669
One man's poetry is another man's poison. lbid.
4670 Whistler, with all his faults. was never guilty of writing a line of
poetry. Ibid.
4671 There's no monev in poetry. but then there's no poetry in money
either. Robert Graves
4672 Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving
4673 It's silly to suggest the writing of poetry as something ethereal, a
sort of soul-crashing emotional experience that wrings you. I have
no fancy ideas about poetry. It doesn't come to you on the wings
of a dove. It's something you work hard at. Louise Bogan
4674 Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the
Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis
4675 Poetry can never be concocted by any purely intellectual process.
It has nothing to do with the intellect: it is, in fact, a violent and
irreconcilable enemy to the intellect. Its purpose is not to establish
facts. but to evade and deny them. H. L. Mencken
4676 Fortunately for himself [Charles Montague] and for his country, he
early quitted poetry. Thomas Babington Macaulay
4677 Free verse: the triumph of mind over meter. Anonymous
4678
Language is simplified gesture, and poetry is simplified language.
Poetry is a sort of dancing with the voice. Francis Scarfe
4679 Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry
4680
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely defi-
nitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose-words in their best order:
poetry-the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4681 I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it
free. John Barrymore
4682
I have always had a sneaking sympathy with George Crabbe, who
read the poems of Byron, Walter Scott, Keats and Shelley, and
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thought them all stuff and nonsense. After all, he might have been
right. W. Somerset Maugham
4683 A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or
worse and goes six or eight lines more. Robert Frost
4684 Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Ibid.
4685 Excellent, were it not for its length. Nicolas Chamfort, giving his
opinion of a couplet
4686 O bard of rhyme and meter free,
My gratitude goes out to ye
For all your deathless lines-ahem!
Let's see now
What is one of them? Franklin P. Adams
4687 Poets are people who despise money except what you need for
today. James M. Barrie
4688 Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and bis-
cuits. Carl Sandburg
4689 Poetry is the bill and COO of sex. Elbert Hubbard
4690 I never indulge in poetics
Unless I am down with rheumatics. Ennius
POISE
4691 One woman's poise is another woman's poison. Katherine Brush
POKER
4692 Man is the only animal that plays poker. Don Herold
POLAND
4693 Any Pole who can read and write is a nobleman. Anonymous
4694 Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany and make love
in
Italv.
Polish Proverb
POLICEMAN
4695 Policeman: a never-present help in time of trouble. Anonymous
POLITENESS
4696 If vou bow at all, bow low. Chinese Proverb
4697 Great politeness usually means "I want something." Ibid.
4698 Politeness is like an air cushion: there is nothing inside, but it
softens the shocks of life. Arthur Schopenhauer
4699 Politeness is a liberating constraint. It makes it possible to say
everything that rudeness couldn't. Sigismund von Radecki
4700 Hubbard Some folks are too polite to be up to any good. Frank McKinney
4701
Politeness
is fictitious benevolence. Samuel Johnson
4702 I shall be so polite to my wife as though she were a perfect stranger.
Robert Jones Burdette
4703 That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. F. W. Nietzsche
4704 Politeness: the most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce
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PATRONAGE-PEDESTRIAN
except stop criticizing and trying to improve him. We should cast
the same affectionate but sharp glance at our country. J. B.
Priestley
4490 Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. William
R. Inge
4491 I once heard an Irishman say, "Every man loves his native land
whether he was born there or not." Thomas Fitch
4492 You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race. George Bernard Shaw
4493 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all
other countries because you were born in it. Ibid.
4494 Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate
above principles. George Jean Nathan
4495 I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand reddy to
sacrifiss my wife's brother ruther'n not see the rebelyin krusht.
C. F. Browne (Artemus Ward)
PATRONAGE
4496 Patron: commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is
repaid with flattery. Samuel Johnson
PAUSE
4497 The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence. that geo-
metrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect
where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could ac-
complish it. Mark Twain
PAWNBROKER
4498 A person who asks you to see him at your earliest inconvenience.
Anonymous
PAY
4499 I think some folks are foolish to pay what it costs to live. Frank
McKinney Hubbard
PEACE
4500 Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many
monuments to unveil. Frank McKinney Hubbard
4501 Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two
periods of fighting. Ambrose Bierce
4502 Though General Sherman lived on into the peace, he never said
what he thought of it. Harry V. Wade
PEDANTRY
4503 Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place
and company. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PEDESTRIAN
4504 For most of us, life is what we make it, but for the pedestrian, it's
if he makes it. Judge
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and
he has lived through, and that other people are infected
often convincing. Oscar Wilde
by these feelings, and also experience them. Leo Tolstoy
ARISTOCRACY
The expression of something one has seen which is bigger
A combination of many powerful men for the purpose of
than oneself. Oliver La Farge
maintaining and advancing their own particular interests.
A collaboration between God and the artist, and the less
It is consequently a concentration of all the most effec-
the artist does the better. André Gide
tive parts of a community for a given end; hence its
Nothing more than the shadow of humanity. Henry James
energy, efficiency, and success. James Fenimore Cooper
Not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
ARISTOCRAT
M. P. Moussorgsky
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A delayed echo. George Santayana
The stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of
A demokrat with hiz pockets filled. Josh Billings
misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
ARITHMETIC
A kind of illness. Giacomo Puccini
One of the oldest branches, perhaps the very oldest branch,
All art consists in bringing something into existence. Aris-
of human knowledge; and yet some of its most abstrusive
totle
secrets lic close to its tritest truths. H. J. S. Smith
The perfection of nature. Sir Thomas Browne
ARIZONA
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a tem-
Where Summer spends the Winter. Arizona Boosters'
perament. Emile Zola
Slogan
ART OF GOVERNMENT
ARMOR
The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor was a
Consists in taking as much money as possible from one
blacksmith. Ambrose Bierce
class of citizens to give to the other. Voltaire
ARTIST
ARMY
A dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George
An organized group which travels on its stomach in con-
Santayana
trast to some individuals who travel on their gall.
A person who "should be fit for the best society and keep
A body of humanitarians that seeks to impress on another
out of it." John Ruskin
body of men the beauty of non-resistance, by exterminat-
A vessel of freedom. H. M. Kallen
ing them. Elbert Hubbard (The Roycroft Dictionary)
The army has always been the basis of power, and it is so
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not
dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and
today. Power is always in the hands of those who com-
mand it. Leo Tolstoy
not an acquisition-and, therefore, more permanently en-
during. He speaks to our capacity for delight and
ARROGANCE
The obstruction of wisdom.
wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives;
Arrogance and boldness belong to those that are accursed
to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain. Joseph
Conrad
of God. St. Clement
Not the mouthpiece of a century, but the master of eternity.
ART
Oscar Wilde
The expression of an emotional experience in some medium
ASCETIC
-stone, bronze, paint, words, or musical tone-in such
One who "makes a necessity of virtue." F. W. Nietzsche
a way that it may be transferred to other people. F. E.
ASH TRAY
Halliday
Something to put cigarette ashes in when the room hasn't a
All art, has this characteristic that it unites people. Leo
Tolstoy
fine table top or expensive rug.
ASPIRATION
A human activity consisting of this, that one man, usually
To love the beautiful, to desire the good, to do the best.
by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings
Moses Mendelssohn
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MARRIED LIFE
MAXIMS
Just one undarned thing after another.
The condensed good sense of nations. Sir James Mackin-
MARRY
tosh
To get a binocular view of life. Dean William R. Inge
Statements of conduct which "are to the intellect what laws
MARTYR
are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and
Any man who is willing to sacrifice others for his "cause."
direct; and although themselves blind, are protective.
Elbert Hubbard (The Roycroft Dictionary)
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in
MARTYRDOM
the night. Joseph Joubert
The only way in which a man can become famous without
Little sermons. Gelett Burgess
ability. George Bernard Shaw
MAY
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Adapted
The month of gladness. John Lydgate
from Tertullian
It means youth, love, song, and all that is beautiful in life.
MARYLAND
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rivers, Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place
MAYONNAISE
for man's habitation, were it fully manured and inhabited
One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a
by industrious people. John Smith (1624)
state religion. Ambrose Bierce
MASSES
ME
Those who "do most of the dying for both sides of every
The most interesting and important person in the world to
conflict." Joseph Rosenfarb
each of us.
MATHEMATICS
MEANNESS
A tentative agreement that two and two make four. Elbert
To be deaf and not tell your barber.
Hubbard (The Roycroft Dictionary)
MECHANICAL TAXPAYER
The tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts
The dream and hope of every politician.
of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this
MEDICINE
field. P. A. M. Dirac
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the
The most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of
reason for its own existence. James Bryce
absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics
Consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the dis-
does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All math-
ease. Voltaire
ematical truths are relative, conditional. Charles P. Stein-
MEDIEVAL
metz
One college freshman's definition, "Partly evil or bad."
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts
The only place where all the show is stripped off the human
to each other without consideration of their relation to
drama. You
see the human race stark naked-not
experience. Albert Einstein
only physically, but mentally and morally as well. Martin
MATHEMATICS (SCIENCE OF PURE)
H. Fischer
In its modern developments, may claim to be the most
MEDITATION
original creation of the human spirit. Alfred North
The nurse of thought, and thought the food of meditation.
Whitehead
C. Simmons
MATRIMONY
MEEK
A bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
The people who are going to inherit the earth and pay off
Helen Rowland
the mortgage we leave them.
The high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
MEEKNESS
Heinrich Heine
Meekness is not a contemplative virtue, it is maintaining
MAUSOLEUM
peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocation.
The final and funniest folly of the rich. Ambrose Bierce
Henry Ward Beecher
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PASSION
PATRIOTISM
Like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment;
The finest flower of western civilization as well as the
it cannot go backward; it must go forward. C. N.
refuge of the scoundrel. Leonard Woolf
Bovee.
It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your
Universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance,
country. Calvin Coolidge
and art would be useless. Honoré de Balzac
A variety of hallucination which, if it seized a bacteriologist
The inob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
in his laboratory, would cause him to report the strepto-
William Penn
coccus pyrogenes to be as large as a Newfoundland dog,
PASSIONS
as intelligent as Socrates, as beautiful as Mont Blanc, and
The only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were,
as respectable as a Yale professor. H. L. Mencken
a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the
The last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the
Your conviction that this country is superior to all other
most eloquent without it. La Rochefoucauld
countries because you were born in it. George Bernard
Good servants but bad masters. Sir Roger L'Estrange
Shaw
PAST
The willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The best prophet of the future. John Sherman
Bertrand Russell
The sepulcher of our dead emotions. C. N. Bovee
Often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
The dark backward and abysm of time. Shakespeare
George Jean Nathan
The misty black and bottomless pit of time. Thomas Duf-
A sense of partisan solidarity in respect of prestige. Thor-
fett
stein Veblen
The wrecks of days departed. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Patriotism is not, as sentimentalists like to assert, one of
PASTOR
the profoundest of man's noblest instincts. I. A. R.
One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his
Wylie
example that virtue doesn't pay. H. L. Mencken
A kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
PATIENCE
Guy de Maupassant
A most necessary qualification for business; many a man
PATRON
would rather you heard his story than granted his re-
A wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with
quest. Earl of Chesterfield
flattery. Samuel Johnson
A necessary ingredient of genius. Benjamin Disraeli
PAWNBROKER
A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose
A mercenary man to whom money is the one redeeming
Bierce
quality. Gideon Wurdz
A case of not knowing what to do.
PEACE
The inability to make a decision.
In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
The art of hoping. Marquis de Vanvenargues
periods of fighting. Ambrose Bierce
The best remedy for every trouble. Plautus
The short interval when nations toil to pay the costs of past
The key of content. Mohammed
and future wars.
An infinite capacity for being bored.
A monotonous interval between fights. Elbert Hubbard
Patience is passion tamed. Lyman Abbott
(The Roycroft Dictionary)
Faith waiting for a nibble. Josh Billings
A moribund condition, caused by a surplus of civilians,
A gift that God gives only to those He loves. Moroccan
which war seeks to remedy. Cyril Connolly
Proverb
Order based on law. There is no other imaginable definition.
PATIENT
Any other conception of peace is sheer Utopia. Emery
One who "must combat the disease along with the physi-
Reves
cian." Hippocrates
When the wolf "shall dwell with the lamb." Isaiah 11:6
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A beautiful concept of the human mind. It is as unique as
PENGUIN
it is beautiful. John Hodgdon Bradley, Jr.
A bird that flies backwards because he doesn't care to see
Not a passive, but an active virtue. Monsignor Fulton J.
where he's going, but wants to see where he's been. Fred
Sheen
Allen
A mere skeleton in armor. -
PENNSYLVANIA
Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. Josh
The cradle of toleration and freedom of religion. Thomas
Billings
Jefferson
Peace is our final good. St. Augustine
A state that "has produced but two great men: Benjamin
Peace, dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births. Shake-
Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switz-
speare
erland." J. J. Ingalls (1885)
PEACEMAKER
PENNY
The children of God. Matt. 5:9
A coin that "will hide the biggest star in the universe if
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
you hold it close enough to your eye." Samuel Grafton
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. Isaiah 52:7
PEOPLE
PEDAGOGUE
The greatest undeveloped resources of any nation.
One who casts false pearls before real swine.
That part of the state which does not know what it wants.
PEDANTRY
G. W. F. Hegel
Stupidity that read a book.
The people are a many-headed beast. Alexander Pope
The unseasonable ostentation of learning. Samuel Johnson
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of
PEDESTRIAN
our liberty. Thomas Jefferson
A person who crosses the street and hopes to get the brakes.
PERFECT PERSONS
Harvard Lampoon
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children. Nicholas Cham-
One who has bought a used car.
fort
An individual who has found that it doesn't pay to go
PERFECTION
straight, especially across a street.
What American women expect to find in their husbands
A car owner with a wife and a grown-up son or daughter.
but English women only hope to find in their
A person who needs automobile insurance. Judge
butlers. W. Somerset Maugham
One who is safe only when he is riding. Helena Inde-
An alarm clock that doesn't ring.
pendent
PERFECTIONIST
PEDESTRIANS
One who takes infinite pains and gives them to others.
Consist of two groups-the quick and the dead.
PERFUME
PEERAGE
Any smell that is used to drown a worse one. Elbert Hub-
The best thing in fiction the English have ever done. Oscar
bard
Wilde
PERPETUAL HOLIDAY
PEN
A good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
Pen and ink is wit's plow. John Clarke
PERSIA
The tongue of the mind. Miguel de Cervantes
The country that gave us the dismal system of mathemat-
A formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a
ics.
a great deal more easily than he can other people. George
PERSISTENCY
Denison Prentice
A fool's best asset.
That mighty instrument of little men. Lord Byron
PERSON (IGNORANT)
PEN (FOUNTAIN)
One who doesn't know anything about what you know, and
An instrument that writes, and having writ, blots.
knows things you don't know anything about.
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PLATITUDES
Terribly sensitive people and one of the things they
The Sundays of stupidity.
are most sensitive about is cash. Robert Penn War-
PLATO
ren
One who raised "all fundamental questions without an-
POETRY
swering them." Alfred North Whitehead
The language in which man explores his own amazement.
PLAYING BY NOTE
Christopher Fry
To learn to play the piano by note instead of by ear. Twelve
A form of writing that "can never be concocted by any
payments on the note and the piano is yours to learn to
purely intellectual process. It has nothing to do with the
play.
intéllect; it is, in fact, a violent and irreconcilable enemy
PLEASURE
to the intellect. Its purpose is not to establish facts, but
Pleasure is the first good
It is the absence of pain in
to evade and deny them." H. L. Mencken
the body and of trouble in the soul. Epicurus
The rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste.
Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we
Edgar Allan Poe
are always good, but when we are good we are not always
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great
happy. Oscar Wilde
sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he
Pain past is pleasure. Thomas Fuller
feels about life. John Masefield
PLEASURES (SIMPLE)
Poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry. Si-
The last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde
monides
PLYMOUTH ROCK
That thirst, or aspiration
for something purer and
A doorstep into a world unknown, the cornerstone of a
lovelier, something more powerful, lofty and thrilling,
nation. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
than ordinary or real life affords. William Ellery Chan-
The rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
ning
Wendell Phillips
The utterance of deep and heart-felt truth. The true poet is
POE, EDGAR ALAN
very near the oracle. E. H. Chapin
Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens. Leslie
Something to make us better and wiser by continually
Stephen
revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has
There comes Poe with his raven
set in all men's souls. James Russell Lowell
like Barnaby Rudge,
"Poetry," said Emilia, "seems like talking on tiptoe."
Three-fifths of him genius, and
George Meredith
two-fifths sheer fudge.
Truth dwelling in beauty. Robert Gilfillan
James Russell Lowell
POISE
POET
What the Dutchman said girls go out with.
A person born with the instinct of poverty. Elbert Hubbard
The art of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof.
(The Roycroft Dictionary)
POLICE
Employees of the city who could arrange for us to have
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
less crime news in the newspapers.
And tell them.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Philip James Bailey
A bureau in each city that has the most magnificent col-
lection of clues in existence.
The most precious jewel of a nation. Ludwig von Beethoven
POLICEMAN (TRAFFIC)
Poets are prophets whose prophesying never comes true.
A man who stays mad all the time.
E. W. Howe
POLICY
Those who "utter great and wise things which they do not
Leaving a few things unsaid. Elbert Hubbard (The Roy-
themselves understand." Plato
croft Dictionary)
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PROFESSOR
deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of
One who talks in someone else's sleep. W. H. Auden
other individuals or groups with reference to prede-
A scholar who is paid to study the sleeping habits of
termined ends. Institute for Propaganda Analysis
students.
PROPAGANDIST
A man whose job it is to tell students how to solve the
A specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. Hans Speier
problems of life which he himself has tried to avoid by
PROPERTY
becoming a professor.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a
One who knows very little of a single subject and nothing
positive good in the world. Abraham Lincoln
about any others.
The consequence and the basis of the state. Mikhail
A person who is too smart to be a university dean.
Bakunin
PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE
Theft. Pierre J. Proudhon
An athlete who is paid by check in contrast to an amateur
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal
athlete who receives cash.
fiction. Max Stirner
PROFESSIONAL CHARITY
A natural right. It is the safeguard of family life, the stimu-
The milk of human blindness. Tom Mason
lus and the reward of work. Letter of the French Roman
PROGRESS
Catholic Hierarchy (1919)
The victory of laughter over dogma. Benjamin De Casseres
PROPHET
The result of a universal innate desire on the part of every
The best guesser.
organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
Those who were twice stoned-first in anger, then, after
The onward stride of God. Victor Hugo
their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.
Men have learned to travel farther and faster, though on
Christopher Morley
errands not conspicuously improved. This, I believe, is
PROSE
called progress. Willis Fisher
Prose is where all the lines but the last go on to the margin
The activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
-poetry is where some of them fall short of it. Jeremy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bentham
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and
PROSPERITY
to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead
A period when there are a lot of after-dinner speakers after
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page
dinners to speak after.
of history; but progress is not a law of nature. The ground
When it is easy to borrow money to buy things which you
gained by one generation may be lost by the next. H. A.
should be able to pay for out of your own income.
L. Fisher
Tom Bright, once a candidate for governor of Maryland,
PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL
defined prosperity as follows: "I want chicken legs rain-
One where "none of the teachers ever raised his voice. None
ing down on this state like a snowstorm in Chicago; I
of the children ever lowered his, except through hoarse-
want turkey gravy dripping out of your mouths like
ness." Emily Hahn
Niagara Falls; I want you to have porterhouse steaks for
breakfast!"
PROMISE
The pitfalls of fools. Baltasar Gracian
The one thing that cannot be endured continually. Adapted
A promise is a kind of debt. Moroccan Proverb
from J. W. von Goethe
PRONOUN
An instrument to be used; not a deity to be worshiped.
A pronoun is used instead of a noun,
Calvin Coolidge
as "James was tired and he sat down."
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KG NOTES
JOKE:
I'll only speak briefly, knowing, as the poet we honor
once said: "in much of talking, thinking is half
murdered.
"
1)
On Park: Gibran once wrote that "Remembrance is a form of
meeting." So in his pages as on these grounds, this great
man we meet again. (end) //
My wife and I have been pleased to serve as honorary Co-
Chairmen of the dedication committee
tribute to the poet's
bequest
this spot across from which I used to live, (POTUS) lived
in that house longer than in any other house).
Fitting that this garden should grace the avenue named for
the state in which the poet's journey began.
footbridge=KG as bridge into the realm of the soul.
may the words carved on this stone remain as those he has
etched on our collective conscious.
**garden's natural beauty reflect's the poet's approach to
nature.
the lias that "work is love rode visible is not only ens
2)
KG as philosopher, mystic: His words press against the the that
poetry the
boundaries of the wordly, the web/veil one cannot see, yet he wrote,
cannot see beyond.
languary th
that we may hear what we cannot see.
it is
(ref) led us to the thresholds of our minds.
one
his he in explored soul,
That
The significance of man is not in what he attains, but
rather in what he longs to attain. " Gibran's art is of
he lind
+ ours
longing -- for knowledge, for truth, for love and beauty.
His words push the frail boundaries of worldy experience in
a reach for the unknown and the unmet.
Part sage, part phrophet. Part American, part Lebanese,
part citizen of the world.
his words lifted candour with cadence and lent song to
truth. //
hednaws us where
Last book: The Wanderer
were unused to climb
KG as a symbol of unity, democracy and peace for all
peoples. Messages of tolerance and compassion.
The man that discovered the secret of the sea in a drop of
dew.
3)
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BEAUT
BEAUTY
85
BEAUTY
bundance, ran
heer delightful
Rarely do great beauty and a virtuous
But my face-I don't mind it
n its own high
disposition dwell under one roof.
Because I'm behind it;
PETRARCH (1304-1374) De Reme-
It's the folks out in front that I jar.
EATTIE (1898-
diis, Bk. ii, dialog I
-ANTHONY EUWER (1877-
) Lim-
erick
Moderns
Every woman would rather be beau-
tiful than good.
Handsome is that handsome does.
ul harmonizes
PROVERB
-HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754) Tom
tnd the two are
Jones, Bk. iv, Ch. I3
at will be the
She was good as she was fair,
1 who has the
None, none on earth above her!
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in
vision.
To know her was to love her.
a mirror.
The Republic
SAMUEL ROGERS (1763-1855) Jac-
-KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931)
queline
I, too, was beautiful, and that was my
f introduction.
Beauty is a pledge of the possible con-
undoing.
formity between the soul and nature,
-JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE (1749-
and consequently a ground of faith in
1832) Faust, Pt. i, SC. 24
the supremacy of the good.
d of ornament
Rare is the union of beauty and mod-
-GEORGE SANTAYANA (I863-
)
1, adorned the
esty.
The Sense of Beauty
-JUVENAL (c. 6o-c. 130). Satires,
she was beau
What is beautiful is good, and who is
Satire X, 1. 297
good will soon be beautiful.
Beauty stands
00-1748) The
-SAPPHO (c. боо B.C.) Fragment
In the admiration only of weak minds
The hand that hath made you fair
Led captive.
us-is higher
hath made you good.
-JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) Para-
; it needs no
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-
dise Regained, Bk. ii
I616) Measure for Measure, III, i,
To weave a garland for the rose,
)00) The Pic
182
And think thus crown'd 'twould
ii
lovelier be,
Beauty, madam, pleases the eyes only;
sweetness of disposition charms the
Were far less vain than to suppose
OODNESS
soul
That silks and gems and grace to
thee.
VOLTAIRE
(1694-1778)
Nanine,
c.) Apothegm
Act I
-THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852) To
Weave a Garland
all we know
It is better to be beautiful than to be
Great is the strife between beauty
le and secret
good, but it is better to be good than
and modesty.
to be ugly.
-OVID (43 B.C.-A.D. 18?) Heroides,
OSCAR WILDE (I854-1900) The Pic-
Elegy xvi, 1. 290
4-1930) The
ture of Dorian Gray
viii
When a man loves the beautiful, what
III. BEAUTY AND VANITY
does he desire?
T and nought
The fatal gift of beauty.
That the beautiful may be his.
-PLATO (428-347 B.C.) Symposium
hing God in-
-GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-
1824) Childe Harold, Canto iv
It is an extremely wretched thing to
be an over-handsome man.
12-1889) Fra
Others As a beauty I'm not a great star.
-PLAUTUS (c. 254-184 B.C.) Miles
COLUMBUS
I68
COMMAND
COLUMBUS
That comfort comes too late;
Columbus discovered no isle or key so
"Tis like a pardon after execution
lonely as himself.
That gentle physic, given in time, had
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-
cur'd me;
1882) Society and Solitude
But now I am past all comforts here
but Prayers.
Columbus found a world, and had no
chart,
-Idem and JOHN FLETCHER (1579
Save one that faith deciphered in the
1625) Henry VIII, IV, ii, I2I
skies;
He receives comfort like cold porridge
To trust the soul's invincible surmise
-Idem The Tempest, II, i, IO
Was all his science and his only art.
Most of the luxuries and many of the
-GEORGE SANTAYANA (1863-
) O
so-called comforts of life are not only
World
indispensable, but positive hindrances
to the elevation of mankind.
COMFORT
-HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817
The superior man thinks always of
IS62) Walden, Ch. i
virtue; the common man thinks of
The man who expects comfort in this
comfort.
life must be born deaf, dumb and
-CONFUCIUS (c. 55I-478 B.C.) Ana-
blind.
lects
-TURKISH PROVERB
Cold comfort.
Most of our comforts grow up be
-ENGLISH PHRASE, in use since the
tween our crosses.
XVII century
-EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Night
Giving comfort under affliction re-
Thoughts
quires that penetration into the human
Is there no balm in Gilead?
mind, joined to that experience which
knows how to soothe, how to reason,
-OLD TESTAMENT: Jeremiah, viii, 22
and how to ridicule, taking the utmost
Miserable comforters are ye all.
care not to apply those arts improp-
-Ibid. Job, xvi, 2
erly.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort
-HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)
me.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy
-Ibid. Psalms, xxiii, 4
thing that enters the house a guest,
and then becomes a host, and then a
COMMAND
master.
To command, must we not have never.
-KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) The
met our equal?
Prophet
-HONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850) The
The comforter's head never aches.
Commission in Lunacy
-GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633) Out-
It is a fine thing to command, even if
landish Proverbs
it only be a herd of cattle.
He that doth the ravens feed,
-MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Yea, providently caters for the spar-
(1547-1616) Don Quixote
row,
It is better to have a lion at the head
Be comfort to my age!
of an army of sheep, than a sheep at
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
the head of an army of lions.
As You Like It, II, iii, 43
-DANIEL DEFOE (1661?-1731)
EXAGGERATION
306
EXERCISE
An exaggeration is a truth that has
-JUVENAL (c. 6o-c. 130) Satires.
lost its temper.
Satire xiv
-KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) Sand
and Foam
Example is a dangerous lure: where
the wasp got through the gnat sticks
Exaggeration is a department of lying.
fast.
-BALTASAR GRACIÁN (1601-1658) The
-JEAN DE LA FONTAINE (1621-1695)
Art of Worldly Wisdom
Fables
To make a mountain of a molehill.
Lives of great men all remind us
-PROVERB
We can make our lives sublime,
The reports of my death are greatly
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
exaggerated.
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
-MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) Cable
from Europe to the Associated Press
(1807-1882) A Psalm of Life
I am myself tormented, see! by the
EXAMPLE
fear of my own example.
-OVID (43 B.C.-A.D. I8?) Amores, Bk.
Do but set the example yourself, and
I, elegy iv, 1. 45
I will follow you. Example is the best
precept.
We should look at the lives of all as
-AESOP (6th C. B.C.) The Two Crabs
at a mirror, and take from others an
example for ourselves.
Example is the school of mankind, and
-TERENCE (c. 190-150 B.C.) Adelphi,
they will learn in no other.
Act III, SC. iii
-EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) Let-
ters On a Regicide Peace
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
This noble ensample to his sheepe he
-MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) Pudd'n-
gaf-
head Wilson's Calendar
That firste he wroughte and afterward
he taughte.
EXCUSE
-GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)
Canterbury Tales: Prologue
Don't make excuses-make good.
-ELBERT HUBBARD (1856-1915) Epi-
No man is so insignificant as to be sure
grams
his example can do no hurt.
-EDWARD HYDE, LORD CLARENDON
He who excuses himself accuses him-
(1609-1674)
self.
-GABRIEL MEURIER (?-1587?) Trésor
Of all commentaries upon the Scrip-
des Sentences
tures, good examples are the best and
the liveliest.
You may often make excuses for an-
-JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
other, never for yourself.
-PUBLILIUS SYRUS (Ist C. B.C.) Sen-
You can preach a better sermon with
tentiæ
your life than with your lips.
-OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)
EXERCISE
Whence do you derive the power and
Exercise and temperance can preserve
privilege of a parent, when you,
something of our early strength even
though an old man, do worse things
in old age.
(than your child)
-CICERO (106-43 B.C.)
TALITY
IMMORTALITY
445
IMMORTALITY
e ineffable
If I err in my belief that the souls of
I long to believe in immortality.
orruption
men are immortal, I err gladly, and I
If I am destined to be happy with you
1) Of the
do not wish to lose so delightful an
here-how short is the longest life. I
error.
wish to believe in immortality-I wish
CICERO (106-43 B.C.) De Senectute
to live with you forever.
tream and
-JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) Letters to
Whatever it is that feels, and knows
Fanny Brawne
nd?
and wills, and has the power of growth,
I5)
is celestial and divine, and for that
There is no Death! What seems so is
reason must be immortal.
transition;
-Idem Tusculanarum Disputationum
This life of mortal breath
immortal
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Without the hope of immortality no
Whose portal we call death.
605-1682)
one would ever face death for his
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
2
country.
(1807-1882) Resignation
Ibid.
Either the soul is immortal and we
L of cloud
One short sleep past, we wake eter-
shall not die, or it perishes with the
ess God's
nally,
flesh, and we shall not know that we
And Death shall be no more; Death,
are dead. Live, then, as if you were
thou shalt die.
eternal.
endor soon
-JOHN DONNE (1573-1631) Divine
-ANDRÉ MAUROIS (1885-
)
all emerge
Poems: Holy Sonnets, No. I7
There is no death! The stars go down
I shall rise from the dead, from the
To rise upon some other shore,
812-1889)
dark station, from the prostration,
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown
from the prosternation of death, and
They shine forevermore.
never miss the sun, which shall then
-JOHN LUCKEY MCCREERY (1835-
be put out, for I shall see the Son of
I906) There Is No Death
1 and God
God, the Sun of glory, and shine my-
Life is pleasant and I have enjoyed it,
self, as that sun shines.
but I have no yearning to clutter up
Idem Sermons
the Universe after it is over.
Oh, may I join the choir invisible
-H. L. MENCKEN (1880-
)
stops; Pot-
Of those immortal dead who live again.
When we are dead, we are dead.
GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880) The
Choir Invisible
-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1769-1821)
itanza xiv,
Remark to Gaspard Gourgaud at St.
My humble friend, we know not how
Helena, 1818
id his hair
mbs to the
to live this life which is so short yet
My doctrine is live that thou mayest
resumption
seek one that never ends.
desire to live again-that is thy duty
NS nothing
~ANATOLE FRANCE (1844-1924) The
have once
Red Lily
-for in any case thou wilt live again.
-FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE
nothing of
What is it to cease breathing, but to
(1844-1900) Eternal Recurrence
00 is dead.
ree the breath from its restless tides,
rgued from
that it may rise and expand and seek
I trouble not myself about the manner
God unencumbered.
of future existence. I content myself
902) Note-
with believing, even to positive con-
-KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) The
Prophet: On Death
viction, that the power that gave me
existence is able to continue it, in any
MELANCHOLY
550
MEMORY
MELANCHOLY
A feeling of sadness and longing,
Melancholy men of all others are most
That is not akin to pain,
witty.
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
-ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
If there be a hell upon earth it is to
(1807-1882) The Day is Done
be found in a melancholy man's heart.
-ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640) Anat-
Hence, loathed Melancholy,
omy of Melancholy
Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight
born,
Melancholy was made, not for beasts,
In Stygian cave forlorn
but for men; but if men give way to
'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks
it overmuch they turn to beasts.
and sights unholy!
-MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
-JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) L'Al-
(1547-1616) Don Quixote, Pt. ii, ch.
legro
II
Wrapt in a pleasing fit of Melancholy.
Black bile.
-Idem Comus, 1. 546
-CICERO (106-43 B.C.) Tusculanæ
Disputationes, Bk. iii, ch. 5
Hail thou Goddess, sage and holy,
Hail divinest Melancholy.
There's naught in this life sweet,
-Idem Il Penseroso
If man were wise to see 't,
But only melancholy;
I can suck melancholy out of a song,
O sweetest Melancholy!
as a weasel sucks eggs.
-JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) The
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
Nice Valour, Act III
As You Like It, II, v, I2
Sadness is a wall between two gar-
MEMORY
dens.
-KAHIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) Sand.
When other lips and other hearts
and Foam
Their tales of love shall tell,
In language whose excess imparts
Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
The power they feel so well,
-THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771) Elegy
There may, perhaps, in such a scene,
Written in a Country Church-Yard:
Some recollection be
The Epitaph
Of days that have as happy been
Aye, in the very temple of Delight
And you'll remember me.
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran
-ALFRED BUNN (1796?-1860) Then
shrine,
You'll Remember Me
Though seen of none save him whose
For of fortune's sharp adversity
strenuous tongue
The worst kind of infortune is this,
Can burst Joy's grape against his
A man to have been in prosperity,
palate fine;
And it remember, when it passed is.
His soul shall taste the sadness of her
-GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340?-1400)
might,
Troilus and Criseyde
And be among her cloudy trophies
hung.
Some men when they die, after busy,
-TOHN
KEATS
(1705-1821)
Ode
to
toilsome successful lives a great
WORK
WORK
867
WORK
ever noblie
Light is the task when many share the
As for work, we haven't any of conse-
toil.
quence. We have the Saint Vitus'
themselves
-HOMER (c. roth-8th C. B.C.) Iliad,
dance, and cannot possibly keep our
xii, 493 (Bryant's tr.)
heads still.
in numbers
-HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-
With fingers weary and worn
I862) Walden, Ch. ii
ve for ay.
With eyelids heavy and red,
'-1599) The
A woman sat in unwomanly rags,
What region of the earth is not full of
Plying her needle and thread.
our labors?
-THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845) The
-VERGIL (70-19 B.C.) Aneid, i, 460
with vain
Song of the Shirt
O men, the greatest part of our work
sians, v, 6
I know each day will bring its task,
is accomplished; away with all fear
And, being blind, no more I ask.
as to what remains.
d not hear-
-HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1831-1885)
-Ibid. xi, I4
'n selves.
Spinning
For all there is one season of rest and
Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind,
one of labor.
and swarthy with the sun.
-Idem Georgics, Bk. iv, 1. IS4
iastes, v, 2
-SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) The
Your work and labour of love.
Rambler
-NEW TESTAMENT: Hebrews, vi, IO
For men must work, and women must
sing for his
If any would not work, neither should
weep,
he eat.
And the sooner it's over the sooner to
[584-I6I6)
-Ibid. II Thessalonians, iii, IO
sleep;
-1625) The
And good-bye to the bar and its moan-
Six days shalt thou labour and do all
tle, Act II,
ing.
thy work.
-CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875)
-OLD TESTAMENT: Exodus, XX, 9
e-beneath
The Three Fishers, Stanza iii
Establish thou the work of our hands
A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull
upon us: yea, the work of our hands
or the one.
all together.
establish thou it.
RON (1788-
-FREDERICK MARRYAT (1792-1848)
-Ibid. Psalms, xc, I7
, stanza 8
Jacob Faithful, Ch. xii
I. WORK: DEFINITIONS
: steep, we
People who work sitting down get
To labor is to pray.
paid more than people who work
-ST. AUGUSTINE (354-430), attr.
standing up.
h well our
-OGDEN NASH (1902-
) Will Con-
The real essence of work is concen-
sider Situation
trated energy.
-WALTER BAGEHOT (1826-1887) Bio-
4-1929) A
To labor uphill, as they say.
graphical Studies
-PETRONIUS (A.D. Ist C.) Satyricon
The faltering restless hand of Hack,
1 him from
That's all labor lost.
And the tireless hand of Hew.
-PLAUTUS (254-184 B.C.) Poenulus
-BLISS CARMAN (I861-1929) Hack
and Hew
gether or
That few may know the cares and woe
of sloth.
Work is love made visible.
) Tuft of
-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-
KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883-1931) The
I822) Queen Mab, Canto iii, 1. II6
Prophet
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112
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
To be good, according to the vulgar standard
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely
A golf course outside a big town serves an
requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a
excellent purpose in that it segregates, as
certain lack of imaginative thought, and a
though in a concentration camp, all the idle
certain low passion for middle-class respect-
and idiot well-to-do.
ability.
Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
British writer, poet
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm
bad I'm better.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small
ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons
Mae West (1892-1980)
singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
SEE KINDNESS
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Gossip
Good Deeds
And all who told it added something
The luxury of doing good surpasses every
new,
other personal enjoyment.
And all who heard it made enlarge-
John Gay (1685-1732)
ments too.
English playwright
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
It is the mark of a good action that it appears
If it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear
inevitable in retrospect.
of it from one damned good-natured friend or
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
other!
That best portion of a good man's
R. B. Sheridan (1751-1816)
life,
It takes your enemy and your friend, working
His little, nameless, unremembered
together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to
acts
slander you and the other to get the news to
Of kindness and of love.
you.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good
Alas! they had been friends in youth;
action by stealth, and to have it found out by
But whispering tongues can poison
accident.
truth.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834)
English essayist, critic
Il y a un démon qui met des ailes à certaines
Verily the kindness that gazes upon
nouvelles et qui les lâche comme des aigles
itself in a mirror turns to stone,
dans l'espace.
And a good deed that calls itself by
There is a demon that puts wings on certain
tender names becomes the parent
tales and launches them like eagles into space.
to a curse.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Syrian poet. mystic
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way
that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.
Walter Winchell (1897-1972)
The deed is all, not the glory.
American columnist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Gossip: sociologists on a mean and petty scale.
Every good deed is more than three parts
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
pride.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper (1890-1966)
The last temptation is the greatest
Hollywood actress, gossip columnist
treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll
show you someone who isn't interested in
reason.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
people.
Barbara Walters (b. 1931)
SEE ALTRUISM; BENEFACTORS;
American television personality
CHARITY; Shaw on INTENTIONS;
La Rochefoucauld on MOTIVES;
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.
Burke on STYLE
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
American author
Goodness
At every word a reputation dies.
People cannot remain good unless good is
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
expected of them.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
160
161
Lying
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God
We have two tyrannous physical passions;
When I make a mistake every one can see it,
when he does not wish to sign his work.
concupiscence and chastity. We become mad
but not when I lie.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
in pursuit of sex: we become equally mad in
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
French author
the persecution of that pursuit.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some
extraordinary emergency.
Greek proverb
Luxury
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Fortune's a right whore: If she give ought, she
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will
English essayist
deals it in small parcels, that she may take
dispense with its necessities.
J. L. Motley (1814-1877)
Good lies need a leavening of truth to make
away all at one swoop.
American historian
them palatable.
John Webster (1580-1625)
William Mclivanney (b. 1936)
English dramatist
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that
British novelist
If at first you do succeed, don't take any more
enters the house a guest, and then becomes a
chances.
host, and then a master.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
amount of lying go the longest way.
American humorist, journalist
Syrian mystic, poet
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
English author
Watch out when you're getting all you want;
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used
fattening frogs ain't in luck:
to luxury.
He did not stand shivering upon the brink, he
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
was a thorough-paced liar, and plunged at
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
once into the depths of your credulity.
American author
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
There is death in the pot.
you never know when luxury is going to stand
English essayist, critic
Bible, Kings
up.
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
ust
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Abstinence sows sand all over
Lying
English author
The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of
But desire gratified
explanation.
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
Saki (H.H. Munro) (1870-1916)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish author
William, Blake (1757-1827)
If you are going to lie, you go to jail for the lie
The trouble with life is that there are so many
And, after all, what is a lie? "Tis but
rather than the crime. So believe me, don't
The truth in masquerade.
ever lie.
beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore (1882-1942)
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Richard Nixon (b. 1913)
to John Dean III, due to testify
American actor
Oh what a tangled web we weave
before Watergate Committee, April 1973
This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and
will is infinite and the execution confined; that
the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to
yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses
Most lies are quite successful, and human
limit.
you when you have taken the scrape and left
society would be impossible without a great
out the lie.
Troilus, Troilus and Cressida
deal of good-natured lying.
C. E. Montague (1867-1928)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
British author, journalist
He is every woman's man and every man's
The silent colossal National Lie that is the
He will lie even when it is inconvenient, the
woman.
support and confederate of all the tyrannies
sign of the true artist.
Gaius Scribonius Curio (d. 53 BC)
and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses
Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
Roman consul
that afflict the peoples - that is the one to
of Julius Caesar
throw bricks and sermons at.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the
What most men desire is a virgin who is a
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
truth when you know that you would lie if
whore.
you were in his place.
The great mass of people
will more easily
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Edward Dahlberg (b. 1900)
fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
American journalist
American author
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
The liar's punishment is not in the least that
People will insist
on treating the mons
No man spreads a lie with so good a grace as
he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
Veneris as though it were Mount Everest.
he that believes it.
anyone else.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Down, wanton, down! Have you no
Scottish writer, physician
shame
SEE Shakespeare on AGE: Old Age;
No man lies so boldly as the man who is
Halifax on EXCUSES; Gay on
That at the whisper of Love's name,
indignant.
MEN AND WOMEN; Byron on POETS;
Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Carlyle on POLITICIANS; Lichtenberg
Your angry head and stand and
gaze?
Women lie about their age; men about their
on PROPAGANDA; Hoffer on
income.
SELF-DECEPTION; Disraeli on
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
British poet, novelist
William Feather (b. 1889)
STATISTICS; Blake on TRUTH;
American businessman
Nietzsche on VISIONARIES; Hubbard on WIVES
242
243
Slander
And Silence like a poultice comes
To sin is in itself excusable; to be taken is a
martyrdom meaningless by not committing
To heal the blows of sound.
crime.
them?
Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929)
American writer, physician
English dramatist
American cartoonist
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three
No matter how hard the times get, the wages
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
years and have hardly made a rent in it:
of sin are always liberal and on the dot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
H. D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
SEE Wilson on The CHURCH OF
I have often repented speaking, but never of
American humorist, journalist
ENGLAND; Milton on CRIME;
holding my tongue.
There are only two sorts of men: the one the
de Madariaga on The ENGLISH;
Xenocrates (396-315)
just, who believe themselves sinners; the other
Marlowe on MITIGATION; Crane
Greek philosopher
sinners, who believe themselves just.
on PARTNERSHIPS; Twain on
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
PREACHING; France, Marlowe on
RELIGION; Billings, Dryden on
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at
REPENTANCE; Bierce, Wilde on
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is
it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
SAINTHOOD; Molière on SCANDAL;
counted wise.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Butler on SENSE OF HUMOUR
Bible, Proverbs
English cleric
Sincerity
The most silent people are generally those who
It makes a great difference whether a person is
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are
think most highly of themselves.
unwilling to sin, or does not know how.
also stupid.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Seneca (c. 5-65)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
English essayist
Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
Most remarks that are worth making are
There may be other reasons for a man's not
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is
commonplace remarks. The thing that makes
speaking in publick than want of resolution:
to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
them worth saying is that we really mean
he may have nothing to say.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
them.
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at
Robert Lynd (1879-1949)
His enemies might have said before that he
it.
Anglo-Irish essayist. journalist
talked rather too much; but now he has
Mignon McLaughlin
I only desire sincere relations with the worth-
occasional flashes of silence, that make his
American author
iest of my acquaintance, that they may give me
conversation perfectly delightful.
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure
an opportunity once in a year to speak the
Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
in it,
truth.
English clergyman, writer
And do it for the pleasure.
H. D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
of Macaulay
Gerald Gould (1885-1936)
Do not wonder if the common people speak
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
British poet
more truly than those of higher rank; for they
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
When we sin, we are all ashamed at the
speak with more safety.
SEE Emerson on APPLAUSE;
presence of our inferiors.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Chesterton on CONVERSATION;
John Chrysostom (345-407)
SEE La Rochefoucauld on SOCIABILITY
Heine on The ENGLISH; Stevenson
Greek ecclesiast and hermit
on LYING; Eliot on MODESTY
The Sixties
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we: all
sin
Pericles, Pericles
thought it was passé at the time.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
David Bailey (b. 1938)
destroy a sinner.
Should we all confess our sins to one another
British photographer
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
we would all laugh at one another for our lack
I was appalled when the San Francisco ethic
That which we call sin in others, is experiment
of originality.
didn't mushroom and envelope the whole
for us.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
world into this loving community of acid
R. W. Emerson (1803-1882)
Syrian mystic, poet
freaks. I was very naïve.
American essayist, poet, philosopher
A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world
Grace Slick (b. 1939)
A large part of mankind is angry not with the
as a public indecency.
American rock singer
sins, but with the sinners.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Slander
Seneca (c. 5-65)
When the righteous man turneth away from
No character, however upright, is a match for
Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
his righteousness that he hath committed and
constantly reiterated attacks, however false.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that
doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor
Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
one is a sinner.
quite right, he will generally be found to have
American statesman
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
gained in amiability what he has lost in
I will make a bargain with the Democrats. If
holiness.
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a
they will stop relling lies about Republicans
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
crime.
we will stop telling the truth about them.
English author
Rabbinical saying
Chauncey Depew (1834-1928)
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his
American Republican politician
he red that poems any places
on ideas
--KG was the teacher that led us to the thresholds of our
own minds.
triums
--he taught us that the souls of our children "dwell in the
poepse
house of tomorrow, " that "when you give of yourself you
truly give, " to see sadness as merely "a wall between two
gardens," and that "work is love made visible."
paint
and
"Love is a word of light, written by a hand of light, upon a the
page of light. " The hand is his, and the paper // our
color
hearts. //
of the wind"
4)
"Policy" graph: importance of renewing Gibran's message of
tolerance and compassion for a world too often at odds
rather than at peace. Carrying the poet's voice into the
mind that moves the hand that runs the state. For "music
and poetry, " as he once wrote, "are the only two elements
that can remind us of a calmer yesterday and kinder
tomorrow."
how Schwartzkopf keeps a copy of The Prophet bedside.
--his belief in self-determination (e.g. for the fragmented
countries of Eastern Europe) p.319
--KG: "As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent
knowledge of the whole tree, So the wrongdoer connot do
wrong without the hidden will of you all."
--and he led us to the thresholds of our own minds.
FORMAT
I. Beauty of the garden, importance of tribute to Arab-Americans,
to all Americans
II. How it reflects the serenity of KG's work, his philosophy.
III. Why we must revive his message
IV. What KG teaches us.
Ref.
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DICTIONARY OF
MODERN
QUOTATIONS
SECOND EDITION
PENGUIN BOOKS
GIBBS GILL
ocean: one-
WILLA GIBBS
11 [When asked to name the greatest
S and the
e surface of
1 The three kinds of services you gener-
French poet] Hugo - alas! [In a letter
14]
ally find in the Episcopal churches. I
to Paul Valéry, quoted Oxford Diction-
call them either low-and-lazy, broad-
ary of Quotations (new edition)]
and-hazy, or high-and-crazy. [The
12 I call journalism everything that will
Dean]
interest less tomorrow than it does to-
[Song: I Got
day. [Attr.]
'razy. Music
KAHLIL GIBRAN
L. WOLFE GILBERT
2 Forget not that modesty is for a shield
hin', / An'
against the eye of the unclean. And
13 Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee. [Title of
Song: I Got
when the unclean shall be no more,
song. Music by Lewis F. Muir]
1 musical,
what were modesty but a fetter and a
by George
fouling of the mind? [The Prophet, 'Of
W. S. GILBERT
Clothes']
ain't neces-
3 If he [a teacher] is indeed wise he does
14 Sir, I view the proposal to hold an
international exhibition at San Fran-
yo' li'ble /
not bid you enter the house of his
ain't neces-
cisco with an equanimity bordering on
wisdom, but rather leads you to the
indifference. [Quoted in Hesketh Pear-
cessarily So,
threshold of your own mind. [1b. 'Of
Teaching']
son, Gilbert, His Life and Strife, Ch. 19]
of musical.
4 Your children are not your children.
15 In a letter of complaint to the Station-
n]
They are the sons and daughters of
master at Baker Street on the Metro-
Life's longing for itself
politan line] Sir, Sunday morning,
/ And you
you
may
strive to be like them, but seek not to
although recurring at regular and well
: Nice Work
make them like you. [1b. 'Of Children']
foreseen. intervals, always seems to
musical, A
take this railway by surprise. [Quoted in
by George
5 You were born together, and together
John Julius Norwich, A Christmas
you shall be for evermore
but let
Cracker]
there be spaces in your togetherness.
dy! / Dance,
And let the winds of the heavens dance
16 Funny without being vulgar. [Attr.
er you can!
between you. [1b. 'Of Marriage']
remark on Irving's Hamlet]
from film
by George
6 I discovered the secret of the sea in
GILES
meditation upon the dewdrop. [Spirit-
ual Sayings]
17 Fred's just heard the first cuckoo - and
7 It is slavery to live in the mind unless it
GOT it. [Caption of cartoon. Quoted in
has become part of the body. [lb.]
Colin MacInnes, England, Half English,
rth, but not
"The Express Families']
8 The fear of hell is hell itself, and the
longing for paradise is paradise itself.
BRENDAN GILL
our money
[1b.]
rich man.
18 One day he [E. J. Kahn, Jr] happened to
The Pendu-
W. W. GIBSON
describe his usual procedure on rising.
'I get out of bed,' he said, 'and
9 But we, how shall we turn to little
throw up and take a shower and shave
things / And listen to the birds and
and have breakfast
You throw up
winds and streams / Made holy by their
every morning?' 'Of course,' Kahn
is mind for
dreams, / Nor feel the heart-break in
said. 'Doesn't everyone?' [Here at the
le too quick
the heart of things? [A Lament]
New Yorker, Ch. 12]
stand. [De-
nke in the
ANDRÉ GIDE
ERIC GILL
10 The true hypocrite is the one who
19 Man cannot live on the human plane,
ceases to perceive his deception, the one
he must be either above or below it.
[
who lies with sincerity. [Journal of The
[Autobiography, Conclusion]
of English
Counterfeiters', Second Notebook,
20 The artist is not a special kind of man
Aug. 1921]
but every man a special kind of artist.
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Woolf - Kazantzakis
1
There is no room for the impurities of liter-
15
You may give them your love but not your
ature in an essay.
Ib.
thoughts,
That complete statement which is litera-
For they have their own thoughts.
2
ture.
You may house their bodies but not their
Ib. How It Strikes a Contemporary
souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomor-
3
The word-coining genius, as if thought
row, which you cannot visit, not even in your
plunged into a sea of words and came up drip-
dreams.
ping.
Ib. An Elizabethan Play
You may strive to be like them, but seek
4
The beauty of the world has two edges, one
not to make them like you,
of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart
For life goes not backward nor tarries with
asunder.
A Room of One's Own [1929]
yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
5
Women have served all these centuries as
as living arrows are sent forth. 3
looking-glasses possessing the magic and deli-
Ib. On Children
cious power of reflecting the figure of man at
Ib.
16
twice its natural size.
You give but little when you give of your
possessions. It is when you give of yourself
6 Death is the enemy.
Against you I
that you truly give.⁴
Ib. On Giving
will fling myself, unvanquished and unyield-
17
ing, 0 Death.
The Waves [1931]
Work is love made visible. And if you can-
not work with love but only with distaste, it
7
Surely it was time someone invented a new
is better that you should leave your work and
plot, or that the author came out from the
sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of
bushes.
Between the Acts [1941]
those who work with joy.
Ib. On Work
18
You pray in your distress and in your need;
Coco [Gabrielle] Chanel
would that you might pray also in the full-
1883-1970
ness of your joy and in your days of abun-
dance.
Ib. On Prayer
8 How many cares one loses when one de-
19
He who wears his morality but as his best
cides not to be something but to be someone.
Remark
garment were better naked.
Ib. On Religion
9
There are people who have money and peo-
20
I have learned silence from the talkative,
ple who are rich.
Remark
toleration from the intolerant, and kindness
10
As long as you know that most men are like
from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrate-
children you know everything.
ful to those teachers.
Remark
Sand and Foam [1926]
11
Good taste ruins certain true spiritual val-
21 We shall never understand one another
ues: such as taste itself.
Remark
until we reduce the language to seven words. 5
Ib.
12
Adornment is never anything except a re-
flection of the heart.
Remark
Nikos Kazantzakis
Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham
1883-1957
1883-1963
22
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gen-
tle autumnal season, murmuring the name of
13
We are SO outnumbered there's only one
each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to
thing to do. We must attack.¹
Before attacking the Italian fleet,
transport the heart of man into paradise.
Zorba the Greek [1946], ch. 2
Taranto [November 1940]
23
How simple and frugal a thing is happi-
ness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a
Kahlil Gibran
wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea.
1883-1931
All that is required to feel that here
14
Let there be spaces in your togetherness. 2
³See Goethe, 395:16.
The Prophet [1923]. On Marriage
$See Emerson, 498:6; James Russell Lowell, 567:14;
and Whitman, 574:26.
'Quoted in British Commanders, published by British
5 If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand
Information Services [1945].
one another.-TALLEYRAND [1754-1838], quoted by BER-
2See Rilke, 756:12.
NARD BERENSON, Aesthetics and History
Ency. Britanica
736
GIBRALTAR, STRAIT OF-GIBSON
massive square tower of the keep, a bath, water
GIBRALTAR, Strait of, je-brôl'ter, a channel
GIBS
cisterns, and various other features.
rating southwestern from
baset
The Spanish regained the Rock in 1462 and
Africa and connecting the
Cy Y
held it until 1704, when the British under Adm.
Mediterranean Sea. Its
Leag
Sir George Rooke captured it. In 1713 the Trea-
given the strait both commercial and has
nals,
ty of Utrecht formally recognized Gibraltar as
importance. The strait is about 36 miles strategic (57
of 25
British. The Spanish made several abortive at-
long. It is 27 miles (43 km) wide at its western km)
and:
tempts to retake Gibraltar, notably in the famous
end and about 8 miles (12 km) across at its
28 CI
siege from 1779 to 1783, but the Treaty of Ver-
rowest point. It is deepest in the east and Dar.
1.12
sailles in 1783 reconfirmed Britain's possession.
In 1830 it became a crown colony.
lowest in the west, where the submerged sill shal. lies
Mos
During World Wars I and II the harbor at
at a maximum depth of 1,050 feet (320 meters)
was
Gibraltar was a key naval base. The harbor
proved invaluable as an assembly point for con-
icance because of the flow of water through
The channel is of great oceanographic signif.
MVI
sing
voys and as a ship repair yard. The defenses
The surface water, to a depth of about 525 feet it
I
(160 meters), moves eastward from the Atlantic.
Nov
were greatly strengthened in World War II and
Beneath it a current of denser, more saline water
25.
the tunneling extended from 2 to over 10 miles.
flows westward into the Atlantic. This two-tier
pitc
Gibraltar's civilians, of whom there were about
movement ventilates the Mediterranean, and the
elec
16,700, were evacuated to Britain and were grad-
ually repatriated from 1944 to 1951. This and
well-oxygenated surface current is favorable to
the rapid natural increase of population created a
fish life. In addition, the sill shuts out the colder
severe housing problem that was tackled ener-
Atlantic water, so that the Mediterranean re-
mains warm to its floor.
GIB
getically as modern port and tourist facilities
were being built. Many laborers came in daily
R. P. BECKINSALE, Oxford University
Am
Gir
from Spain to help with these tasks and eventu-
GIBRAN, je-brän', Kahlil (1883-1931), Lebanese-
14,
ally over 40,000 people in neighboring Spanish
American poet, philosopher, and artist, who
in
towns were dependent on work in Gibraltar.
Friction with Spain. Meanwhile, Spanish de-
wrote The Prophet, a mystical work composed of
Lif
mands for the decolonization of Gibraltar
prose poems. He was born in Bsherri, Lebanon,
be
increased. In 1963 and 1964, Gibraltarian
on Jan. 6, 1883. When he was 12, his mother
tra
representatives told the United Nations that
took him to live in Boston, but he returned to
da
the people of Gibraltar wanted full internal self-
Lebanon three years later to study Arabic. After
Ri
government and a free association with Britain.
his mother's death in 1903, Gibran's sister sup-
ported him while he worked at painting and writ-
bl
In the following years the Spanish government
ing. He later went to Paris to study art and final-
H
imposed further restrictions on contact with Gi-
ly settled in New York City, where he died on
di
braltar. In 1966, Spanish women were prohib-
April 10, 1931. He was buried in Bsherri.
fa
ited from commuting into Gibraltar, and the land
frontier was closed to all vehicles and trade.
"The Prophet." Gibran wrote many books and
G
executed paintings and some sculpture, but it is
Pi
The Gibraltar government partly offset these
for The Prophet that he is best known. Pub-
ci
restrictions by imposing new measures of local
taxation and by increasing trade with Morocco,
lished in 1923 with illustrations by the author,
The Prophet was a best seller and has been trans-
it
and it received considerable financial aid from
lated into more than 20 languages. A series of 28
0
Britain. In 1967 the British government held a
related prose poems, the book touches on such
referendum in which 12,138 Gibraltarians voted
topics as love, freedom, prayer, and death. Gib-
for retaining a link with Britain, and 44 against.
In May 1969 the preamble to the new consti-
ran's mysticism, evident here as in all his works,
reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiri-
tution stated categorically that "Gibraltar is part
tual and visionary. See also PROPHET, THE.
of her Majesty's dominions" and that its sover-
VIRGINIA HILU
eignty would never be changed against the
Editor of "Beloved Prophet"
wishes of its inhabitants. The Spanish govern-
ment responded by completely closing the inter-
Further Reading: Naimy, Mikhail, Kahlil Gibran: A
Biography (Philosophical Lib. 1985).
national land frontier, which prevented the entry
to Gibraltar of about 4,800 men who came in dai-
GIBSON, gib'sen, Althea (1927- ), American
ly from Spain. Gibraltar tried to offset the seri-
tennis player, who was the first black to win a
ous loss of Spanish trade and labor through in-
major U.S. title. Rangy and quick at 5'10", she
creased tourism and an influx of workers from
Morocco, Britain, and other countries.
was noted for her powerful serve and volley.
Althea Gibson was born in Silver, S.C., on
Relations between Britain and Spain im-
Aug. 25, 1927, grew up in New York City, and
proved with the end of the Franco regime. Tele-
phone links were restored in 1977, and at the end
graduated from Florida A. & M. College in 1953.
After winning the first of 10 straight national
of 1982, Spain eased border restrictions on pe-
destrians. The border was fully reopened in
Negro women's singles championships in 1948,
she rose rapidly to supremacy. She took the
February 1985 for motor vehicles, people, and
French Open (1956), Italian Open (1956-1957),
goods. Scheduled negotiations between Britain
and Spain included-for the first time-the issue
British and U.S. singles (1957-1958), and shared
the British doubles (1956-1958). In 1957-1958
of sovereignty over Gibraltar, which led to some
she was ranked number one in the United
Gibraltarians voicing concern that the territory
States.
might eventually be absorbed by Spain. Popula-
tion: (1981) 29,616.
After competing in the Wightman Cup
matches between the United States and Britain
R. P. BECKINSALE
in 1957-1958, she played professional tennis and
Oxford University
golf. In 1980 she was the only tennis player
Further Reading: Levie, Howard S., The Status of
among the first six athletes elected to the
Gibraltar (Westview 1983); Stamp, Maxwell. Gibraltar:
Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
British or Spanish? (International Pubs. Service 1976).
NEIL L. AMDUR, "New York Times"
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 24, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT KHALIL GIBRAN DEDICATION
Gibran Memorial Garden
Washington, D.C.
8:59 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Please those who have chairs be seated,
and the rest of you, thank you for the warm welcome, really. I told
them to leave Millie at home over here. I don't know what the
barking is. (Laughter.) But let me first salute my old friend, my
dear friend Bill Baroody and thank him for his leadership; to Sheryl
Ameen and Colonel Tannous, Adelaine Abourezk, our friend Ambassador
Lahoud, and, of course, our distinguished Representative,
Congresswoman Oakar. To all of you, I would say without your
sponsorship we wouldn't be standing here today. I want to single out
Flip Wilson for his help in making this possible; it's greatly
appreciated. Salute another old friend Jamie Farr.
And ladies and gentlemen, it's an honor -- I mean this
from the heart -- it is an honor to be asked to dedicate this garden
to a man who has done so much for poetry and, through poetry, for all
of us. Barbara and I were pleased when Bill asked us, and others
asked us, to serve as honorary cochairmen of the dedication
committee. And now that I see -- Barbara's seen it -- the beauty of
this place, I'm struck by the committee's dedication.
They, and all who contributed to this memorial, offer it
as a real tribute to Gibran's legacy -- his belief in brotherhood,
peace. his call for compassion, and, perhaps above all, his passion for
The spot where we now stand holds a special place in my
heart because, as most of you know, for eight years, I lived up the
street with my family. And this memorial renders this place so much
more special by honoring a man who enlivened candor with cadence and
lent song to truth.
Gibran once wrote that "remembrance is a form of
meeting. So in this garden, we meet this man again. The graceful
symmetry and the slope of these grounds lead the eye in a sweep that
is, indeed, poetry in motion. The Cedars of Lebanon that will
someday canopy the poet's memorial remind us of those which once
sheltered his birth. His words carved on these benches, and they are
so beautiful, echo those he has etched on our memory. And as the
entrance's footbridge brings us into his garden, so his work "leads
us to the thresholds of our own mind."
Perhaps his greatest
Own Imaginations. His was not poetry for the passive, but
for the participant. He wrote that the wisest teacher reveals "that
which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
And his poetry sounded that reveille with a song of beauty and truth.
When Gibran said that "work is love made visible, those
weren't just words that he wrote, they were words that he lived.
Part poet, part philosopher, he extracted "the secret of the sea from
a drop of dew." Poetry was the language in which he explored his
soul and taught us about ours. And when he spoke of the realm of the
spirit, his words pressed the veil we cannot see, yet cannot see
beyond. He drew us where we were unused to climb and shared what he
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saw -- the promise of a a kinder, gentler world.
And as we survey today's world, we see progress towards
Gibran's vision, but we also see promise unfulfilled. And we see the
need to renew Gibran's message of tolerance and compassion for a
world too often at odds rather than at peace. Perhaps nowhere is
this more important than in the Middle East, Gibran's homeland where
peace still wanders as the region's prodigal son.
That region gave us a symbol of peace in Gibran. It is
cruel irony that those lands now suffer the strife and hatred and
fear. Our administration's efforts are premised by those words Bill
just quoted that, "We are all children of the same supreme being."
And that's why we must strive to turn this bitter cycle of demanding
an eye for an eye into one of offering a hand for a hand. We shall
continue our efforts to help bring peace back home to this vital and
historic part of the world, so that someday "its bread of affliction"
may become "bread cast upon the waters."
Gibran once wrote, "Love is a word of light written by a
hand of light upon a page of light.' The hand is his and the page,
our hearts.
May I say to those who follow on this program, I
apologize. I would like to be a full participant, but we're scooting
off to New England on a long established event. But I salute those
who are participating in the program, ask their forgiveness and
yours. And thank you very much, because it is Barbara and I who are
participants. honored by what has happened here today, inviting us to be
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
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9:05 A.M. EDT