Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies,
With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,
Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,
Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,
As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,
Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)
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Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head
From a flint so unhappily thrown;
I think very di... DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR) I feel in every smile a chain. DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR) What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all! JOHN WOLCOT Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil. PINDAR Men are the dreams of a shadow. PINDAR Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. PINDAR Learn what you are and be such. PINDAR Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. PINDAR Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be. PINDAR Words have a longer life than deeds. PINDAR Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within th... PINDAR The present will not long endure. PINDAR The test of any man lies in action. PINDAR Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thin... PINDAR Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men ... PINDAR The best of healers is good cheer. PINDAR Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affecti... PINDAR A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. PINDAR The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. PINDAR Sweet is war to those who know it not. PINDAR Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affecti... PINDAR Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence PINDAR The present will not long endure PINDAR Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest PINDAR A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality PINDAR War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in ... PINDAR Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body
came to be called in question by it. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious
epicure--and for such a tomb migh... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb
put his head through the window a... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well
is the great art of social life. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to
society. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .
To that dr... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) "Presents," I often say, endear Absents." CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to
speak it profanely) to be present wi... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you
are preparing for yourself!
[Fr... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism
that have made our country so great... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving:
Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Half as sober as a judge. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit ... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all
the souls of all the writers that ... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with
its usual severity. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) Neat, not gaudy. CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) How bright the sunshine dances in its joy,
O'er the still flow of this majestic river! JOHN WILSON (2) (USED PSEUDONYM CHRISTOPHER NORTH) They say man rules the universe,
That subject shore and main
Kneel down and bless the empery
... WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN) The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t... JAMES WOLCOTT In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John M... JAMES WOLCOTT 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ... JAMES WOLCOTT What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing... JAMES WOLCOTT On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting f... JAMES WOLCOTT The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film bu... JAMES WOLCOTT Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily toss... JAMES WOLCOTT I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary... JAMES WOLCOTT Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing ha... JAMES WOLCOTT We have identified the individuals, and they will be getting a bill. BEN WOLCOTT The fire is well and truly out. It could have been so much worse if we did not have the combined eff... BEN WOLCOTT Fire conditions are getting worse every day that we have don't rain. BEN WOLCOTT This is the most dangerous time of year, and we are way behind for rainfall. We've made our preparat... BEN WOLCOTT It's just burning in the swamp. It's burning fuel that's within the fire lines at this time. BEN WOLCOTT Conditions will probably get worse. We're still at the front end of wildfire season. BEN WOLCOTT These fronts roll through this time of year, and it makes it very easy for forest fires to spread. O... BEN WOLCOTT It's a major problem and especially when the fire danger is high. BEN WOLCOTT One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of bl... JAMES WOLCOTT As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach ... JAMES WOLCOTT Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had... JAMES WOLCOTT Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and dead... JAMES WOLCOTT What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norm... JAMES WOLCOTT Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance con... JAMES WOLCOTT It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in ... JAMES WOLCOTT Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed W... JAMES WOLCOTT Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about... WOLCOTT GIBBS A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his tradema... JAMES WOLCOTT Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are ... JAMES WOLCOTT Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered throu... JAMES WOLCOTT Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the ... JAMES WOLCOTT What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, t... JAMES WOLCOTT Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow hor... JAMES WOLCOTT The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being... JAMES WOLCOTT In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and... JAMES WOLCOTT Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in sh... JAMES WOLCOTT You're sitting there having breakfast at the St. Regis with Scooter Aspen, buttering each other's to... JAMES WOLCOTT The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, ... JAMES WOLCOTT In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's playth... JAMES WOLCOTT Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, ... JAMES WOLCOTT Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century i... JAMES WOLCOTT Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for ... JAMES WOLCOTT Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to her... JAMES WOLCOTT Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his... JAMES WOLCOTT He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were s... WOLCOTT GIBBS Where it all will end, knows God. WOLCOTT GIBBS Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind. WOLCOTT GIBBS He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them WOLCOTT GIBBS It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar... WOLCOTT GIBBS The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '6... JAMES WOLCOTT Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No... JAMES WOLCOTT High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned... JAMES WOLCOTT And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the m... JAMES WOLCOTT Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. JAMES WOLCOTT As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads r... JAMES WOLCOTT Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a b... JAMES WOLCOTT If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no &... JAMES WOLCOTT Many questions torment America in its dark night of the soul, questions more urgently pressing, and ... JAMES WOLCOTT There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programmi... JAMES WOLCOTT Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. JAMES WOLCOTT If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to... JAMES WOLCOTT A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs... 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- Josiah Gilbert Holland (use... JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB) Der Kaiser of dis Faderland,
Und Gott on high all dings commands,
We two--ach! Don't you unde... ALEXANDER MCGREGOR ROSE (USED PSEUDONYM A.M.R. GORDON) Circumstances alter cases. THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK) Sing away, ay, sing away,
Merry little bird
Always gayest of the gay,
Though a woodland ... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The buttercups across the field
Made sunshine rifts of splendor. DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree:
A spruce little fellow as ever could be;
His ... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
... JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB) Autumn
Into earth's lap does throw
Brown apples gay in a game of play,
As the equinoctia... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time!
Year after year returning, with a brow
Of promise, and r... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Prosperity is a feeble reed.
[Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.] JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES) With faces like dead lovers who died true. DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
So rolls the cha... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night,
They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,
And... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
The portals of our eart... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) To-morrow is, ah, whose? DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A secret at home is like rocks under tide. DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) When asked what State he hails from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He comes from Appomattox
A... CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) I said to the Nightingale:
"Hail, all hail!
Pierce with thy trill the dark,
Like a glitt... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the sky-poised Lark:
"Hark--hark!
Thy note is more loud and free
Because there... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette,
It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;
'Twas ... CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY) O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
Bare long after the rest are green;
But as the tim... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave the... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
music are but the blazon of its wi... JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB) I took the wren's nest;--
Heaven forgive me!
Its merry architects so small
Had scarcely ... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the brown, brown thrush:
"Hush, hush!
Through the wood's full strains I hear
T... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Circumstances alter cases. THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos ... DR. JOHN I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all ta... DR. JOHN Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol... DR. JOHN This mission is too important for me. DR. PETER TSOU I have spotted the tracks of the dust particles. DR. PETER TSOU The bottom line is, when you look at the well-done scientific studies, there were very few showing t... DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS Ashley has developed a defect known as a Gilmore?s Groin. This could account for the pain he suffers... DR PETER GREGORY I do fear for him if he has to have further surgery in such a short period of time since the last on... DR PETER GREGORY We always had this window to try to get him fit with the maximum amount of rest we could afford befo... DR PETER GREGORY The advice we received from Ashley's specialist is that it will take time to derive full benefit fro... DR PETER GREGORY Surgery is an option, but the advice we have received from two leading specialists is that the injur... DR PETER GREGORY With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. What we weren't able to do was give him a ... DR PETER GREGORY With this kind of injury you have to wait. We'll have a better idea next week. DR PETER GREGORY With this kind of injury you have to be patient and wait. There is no definitive on whether to opera... DR PETER GREGORY There is, in my view, nothing more important than saving a child's life, and we need to strengthen o... DR PETER SALAMA Everybody thought that we were progressing so well that we would just continue to progress. But in f... DR PETER SALAMA The suggestion that there is an unwillingness to admit to the jurisdiction of the contractor-general... DR PETER PHILLIPS International partners, such as the FBI, have indicated and offered their services in facilitating t... DR PETER PHILLIPS I want us to be assured when those local government elections are held that the KSAC will return to ... DR PETER PHILLIPS The entire world has an interest in us having a peaceful and pleasant experience in World Cup 2007. DR PETER PHILLIPS I cant do without God, my greatest comfort where no human can reach. DR. PETER TSOU I have been waiting 25 years for this time. DR. PETER TSOU Getting a sample from a comet but not landing on it, is probably the best chance we have of discover... DR. PETER TSOU It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pris... DR. PETER TSOU I have checked the capsule ... now I can call the mission a full success. DR. PETER TSOU It's a perfect landing...we are jumping and applauding. I can hardly sleep. Nevertheless I had been ... DR. PETER TSOU Surgically, the failure rate is 2 to 6 percent. The bone is not as dense in all areas of the mouth. ... DR. PETER LALIBERTE If there is no stimulus of mechanical action on the bone, the surrounding bone will gradually disapp... DR. PETER LALIBERTE The bridge would have cost about $3,100, because you are working on three teeth. DR. PETER LALIBERTE We're just saying that those studies don't exist that these products work. DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS It's no mystery to doctors that the over-the-counter preparations may not do much for the cough but ... DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS Cough is the single most common reason that patients in the U.S. go to their doctor. Since it's a pr... DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS Our youth we can have but to-day;
We may always find time to grow old. ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES) Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow. ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR) [T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.) Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.
- Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)... ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR) Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps,
Cheerfully from the stars he peeps,
Mortals are all asleep bel... JOHN PETER HEBEL The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it JOHN PETER FLYNN Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I con... DR. LAURENCE J. PETER You shouldn't punish others for your own choices DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. DR LAURENCE J PETER Ever since man invented the wheel, he has been the confused victim of the miracles he has wrought. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER As a matter of fact, is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't DR. LAURENCE J. PETER A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? DR. LAURENCE J. PETER A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER