About the Creative Process

ART

In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt--a wind to freeze;
Sad patience--joyous energies;
Humility--yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity--reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel--Art." --Herman Melville

"I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind. Already I have set down statements I would would gladly change did I know how to substitute a truer utterance; but as often as I try to fit the reality with nearer words, I find myself in danger of losing the things themselves and feel like one in process of awaking from a dream, with the thing that seemed familiar gradually yet swiftly changing through a succession of forms until its very nature is no longer recognizable." --George MacDonald, Lilith, Ch. 3

About Passion, Desire, and Aspirations

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." --Anon.

"Without passion, man is a mere latent force and possiblity, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." --Anon.

"When I envision passion, desire,
I often see a golden fire.
People try to drown this art,
But gasoline flows from my heart." --V.J. Lynn

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose our hearts' desire. The other is to gain it." --Anon.

About Wisdom, Pride, Intelligence, and Curiosity

"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows not more." --William Cowper, The Task

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." --Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508

"Wisdom is the art of knowing how to overlook." --William James

"The true, strong, and soun mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small." --Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's LIFE, 1728

"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart." --Anon.

"A man that is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package." --Mary McLeod Bethune

"What is the business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit, For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he already knows." --Anon.

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." --Frank Leahy

"How does one accept a miracle? Humbly." --Rose

About Love

"Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." --from 1 Corinthians 13

"Loving is not just caring deeply, it's above all, understanding." --Francoise Sagan, Le Soir

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question." --Tilly Tomlin

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." --Antoine de St. Exupery, Wind, Sand, And Stars

"My heart is a blind guide... why do I follow?" --Rose

"Of what use is love if you have no one to love?" --Immanuel of Rome

"Love may be blind, but jealousy sees too much." --Folk Saying

"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb." --Robert Browning

"What miracle joins one heart to another?" --Rose

"Love is too young to know what conscience is." --C.S. Lewis

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." --Anon.

"I love you--not because of who you are--but because of who I am when I am with you." --Anon.

"Work is love made visible." --Kahlil Gibran

"How can I go back to thinking and reasoning when there is such bliss?" --Rose

"Friendship or love--one must choose." --Rene Crevel

"Don't talk of love
I've heard the word before
It's sleeping in my memory
And I won't distrub the slumber
Of feelings that have died
If I never loved, I never would have cried." --Paul Simon, "I Am A Rock"

"I could sooner forget to breathe than forget you." --Tracie Peterson

"Full well I know what love doth mean--
I know its force and tyranny,
And captive in love's chains I've been
Since first I laid mine eyes on thee." --Keats

"Love is like war; easy to begin, but very hard to stop." --H.L. Mencken

"As a snowflake, ice edged, unique in shape and kind,
So a soul traversing life, alone until it finds,
One to which it cleaves and forms, a new and wondrous thing. God in perfect wisdom makes the human heart to sing." --Quillan, The Tender Vine

"But I love you, sir;
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not." --Elizabeth Barret Browning

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." --Anon.

"Oh sweet and painful love, thou needle in my heart;
Should I draw you forth and let the bleeding star?" --Quillan, The Tender Vine

About Friends and Friendship

"A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself." --Frank Crane

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." --Aristotle

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." --Francis Bacon

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

"A friend is someone who knows the song of your heart and can sing it back to you when you've forgotten the words." --Anon.

"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." --Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook

"A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have." --Anon.

"Is there any pain an enemy can inflict that compares to that done by a friend." --Rose

"Most people will walk in and out of your life, but only friends will leave footprints on your heart." --Anon.

About Music

"Music is the healing force of the universe." --Sun Ra

"Music is my mistress and she plays a second fiddle to no one." --Duke Ellington

"One of the guiding philosophies of music is to find your own voice." --T.S. Monk

"The greatest part of being a conductor is expressing my feelings about what a particular composer has to say. Being able to reach down inside the players and try to draw the music from them." --Andre' Raphel Smith

"And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away." --H.W. Longfellow

"Music gives words their souls." --V.C. Andrews

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below." --Joseph Addison

"The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more." --William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper

"Music that gentlier on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"There is always music amongst the trees in the garden,
But our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." --M. Aumonier

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the unexpressible is music." --Aldous Huxley

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." --Thomas Carlyle

ON HEARING A SYMPHONY OF BEETHOVEN
Sweet sounds, oh beautiful music, do not cease!
Reject me not into the world again.
With you alone is excellence and peace,
Mankind made plausible, his purpose plain.
Enchanted in your air benign and shrewd,
With limbs asprawl and empty faces pale,
The spiteful and the stingy and the rude
Sleep like the scullions in the fairy tale.
This moment is the best the world can give:
The tranquil blossom on the tortured stem.
Reject me not, sweet sounds! Oh, let me live,
Till Doom espy my towers and scatter them,
A city spellbound under the agin sun,
Music my rampart, and my only one." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

About Our Speech

"The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief." --Emerson, Journals

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." --Paul to the Corinthians, Ch. 13

"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows sharper with constant use." --Washingtong Irving

"A cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water; however suddenly jolted." --Amy Carmichael

"Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

"The Bible has alot to say about our mouths, our lips, our tongues, for our speech betrays us. What is down in the well will come up in the bucket." --Vance Havner

"I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others--to the hurt of their own bodies and souls." --A.B. Simpson

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and let others think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." --Mark Twain

About Memories, Nostalgia, and Reminiscence
"And when the stream
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had felt,
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory, images, and precious thoughts,
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed." --from Wordsworth, The Excursions

"To think is pain; to remember, torment; but to consider the future--more than I can bear." --Rose

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." --Cesare Pavese

"I fear my feet will never light, for I bear the stigma of my deed. How can one change a moment passed? Even a moment that shoul never have come." --Rose

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste." --Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 30

"Memory is the paradise out of which we cannot be driven." --Sacha Guitry

"You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories." --Stanislaw J. Tec

"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." --James Matthew Barrie

About Appearance and Hypocrisy

"It is the infirmity of little minds to be captivated by every appearance and dazzled with everything that sparkles." --Anon.

"Dress in such a manner that people will see only you and not your attire." --Anon.

"Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look as if you're leading a parade." --William Battie

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --Anon.

"I will not cut my conscious to conform to this world's trends." --Anon.

"It is the way of dreams to become nightmares. What seems beautiful is seldom as it seems. Can anyone who has lived not believe in death? Can any who loved not know what it is to hate?" --Rose

"Love is not blind. I see with single eye
Your ugliness and other women's grace.
I know the imperfection of your face,--
The eyes too wide apart, the brow too high
For beauty. Learned from earliest youth am I
In loveliness, and cannot so erase
Its letters from my mind, that I may trace
You faultless, I must love until I die.
More subtle i sthe sovereignty of love:
So am I caught that when I say, 'Not fair,'
'Tis but as if I said, 'Not here--not there--
Not risen--not writing letters.' Well I know
What is this beauty men are babbling of;
I wonder only why they prize it so." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

"To find beauty is to know mercy." --Rose

About Emotions and Feelings

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." --Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

"We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs." --Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual

"Fire, water, moonbeams, good and ill--
We know them by the way they feel." --Anon.

"What I know is little compared to what I hope to know. What I feel is already too much." --Rose

"It is a fact that the human heart differs from all other species. While its function to the body is the same as all animals, its participation with the human soul is both rhapsodic and fatal." --Rose

"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion
That if by chance it be shaken, or into the depths like a pebble
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together." --H.W. Longfellow

Of all life's betrayers, the heart is the worst. It flutters with joyful anticipation, leading down paths better untrod. Now that I know my heart, I must never follow it again." --Rose

"If the eye is the window to the soul, and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, why can't we all be blind and dumb?" --Rose

"Nothin is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders." --Demosthenes

"The rose and thorn, joy and sorrow,
all mingle into one." --Saadi, Shaikh Muslih Al Din

About the World

"Is there a God? An author of this madness?" --Rose

"All are but parts of one stupdendous whole
Whose body is Nature, and God the Soul." --Alexander Pope, An Essay On Man

"Tucked away in the immensity of space is our insignificant little planet." --Anon.

"The world is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." --Arlo Guthrie

"The world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all." --Mark van Doren, Autobiography

"A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist."
'However', replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" --Stephen Crane, War Is Kind

"We cannot in any better manner glorify the Lord and Creator of the universe than that in all things we contemplate the display of His omnipotence and perfections with utmost admiration." --Anton van Leeuwenhock, Selected Works

"The more I saw of this world, the less I was able to adjust to its ways." --Rousseau, Confessions

About Life and Death
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing... Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." --Helen Keller, The Open Door

"The great business of life is to do, to do without, to be, and to depart." --John Morley, address on aphorisms, Edinburgh

"Of all my sins, one stands out above the others--that I ever took my first breath." --Rose Annelise, DeMornay

"Life is a funny thing that occurs on the way to the grave." --Quentin Crisp

"Life is Sobs, Sniffles, and Smiles--with Sniffles predominating." --O. Henry

"Life is half-spent before we even know what it is." --George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

"That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet." --Emily Dickinson

"Life is like an onion one peels crying." --French Proverb

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives." --Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's LIFE

"Death is a wily opponent, sneaking up on the unwary, yet eluding the deserving." --Rose

"Life is ultimately a challenge and a discipline." --Cornel West

"Is it possible to live someone else's life? If possible, I have left mine and entered the mind and body of a stranger, whom I don't much like, and trust not at all." --Rose

"All dripping in tangles green,
Cast up by a lonely sea,
If purer for that, O Weed,
Bitterer, too, are ye?" --Herman Melville, The Tuft of Kelp

"Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave
Still, like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave." --H.W. Longfellow

"What fear have I of death? What is fear but a longing to retain what I don't want? I have died inside, it can't matter what becomes of my shell." --Rose Annelise DeMornay

"I was afraid I would die resembling a wild rose; never seen, never smelled, never touched--a flower that would be kissed by the sun and the rain until it bloomed radiantly, but would then eventually wither and decompose--its petals floating sadly to the earth, its stem bending until the next rain pounded it into the dust to be forgotten; to be treated as if it had never existed." --V.C. Andrews

About Creativity, Artistry, and Dreaming

"Society often forgives the criminal.. never the dreamer." --Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." --Martin Luther King Jr., Strength is Love

"Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence, his hands will have no talent." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight To Arras

"Let us leave every man free to search himself and lose himself in his ideas." --Anon.

"Hear melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." --Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn

"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" --Thomas Lowell Beddoes, Dream Peddalry

"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." --Elias Canetti

"Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." --Charles Fisher

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking." --Margaret Fuller

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." --William Hazlitt

"Dreams are true whil they last, and do we not live in dreams?" --Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." --Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, alot madder, and alot saner than the average person." --Frank Barron, Think, Dec. 1962

"That April should be shattered by a gust,
That August should be levelled by a rain,
I can endure, and that the lifted dust
Of man should settle to the earth again;
But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you." --Anon.

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the drea. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems." --Arthur O'Shaunessey

About Fear, Courage, and Weakness

"Stand with your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." --Anon.

"The only permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear--fear of hte unknown, the complex, the inexplicable." --H.L. Mencken, Prejudices

"To him who is in fear, everything rustles." --Sophacles

"I personally believe that if you are able to experience adversity and rise above it, than that in itself builds character." --Dexter Scott King

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin, Diary

"If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." --John F. Kennedy, undelivered address

"FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real." --on Marine's poster

"Storms make oaks take deeper roots." --Anon.

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain." --Anon.

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." --Seneca (A.D. 65), Letters to Lucilius

"Men who are weak never give in when they should." --Cardinal de Retz, Memoires

"Strong men can afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on 'giving as good as they get.'" --Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tell a man he is brave and you help him become so." --Thomas Carlyle

"Endure my heart:
You once endured something even more dreadful." --Homer

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release rom little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear." --Amelia Earheart, Courage

About Freedom, Liberty, and Independence

"What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom." --Paula Giddings

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." --W.E.B. Du Bois

"Freedom is obtained not by the enjoyment of what is desired, but by the controlling the desire itself." --Epictetus (fl. 100 A.D.), Discourses

"Independence is for the very few; it is a privelege of the strong." --Neitzche, Beyond Good And Evil

"What man wants is simply independent choices, whatever than independence costs, and wherever it may lead." --Dostoyevski, Notes From The Underground

"I have conquered an empire, but I have not been able to conquer myself." --Peter the Great

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitutde to live after our own; but the great man is he, who in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." --Emerson, Self-Reliance

"Freedom lies in being bold." --Robert Frost

"I am
indeed,
a king,
because I know how
to rule myself." --Pietro Aretino to Agostino, Ricchi (5/10/1537)

About Self-Respect and Egotism

"Trust yourself and you will know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, Proverbs in Prose

"Risk! Risk anything! Care not for the opinions of others; for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you--Act for yourself. Face the truth." --Katherine Mansfield, Journals

"Be faithful to what exists inside yourself and nowhere else, thus making yourself indispensable." --Anon.

"One must raise the self by the self
And not let the self sink down
For the self's only friend is the self
And the self is the self's one enemy." --Bhagavad-Gita, c. 1050 B.C.

"Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man is reliance on God." --Emerson, The Fugitive Slave Law

"I say 'me', all the while knowing it's not me." --Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

"Self-respect is what keeps a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and enables him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him." --Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." --Frank Leahy, "Look", Jan. 10, 1955

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." --Mark Twain, What Is Man?

"I care not so much for the opinion of others, as what I am in my own: I would be right of myself, and not by borrowing." --Montaigne, Essays

"The very perfection of man is to find his own imperfection." --St. Augustine

"Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and--if necessary--against others." --Romain Rolland, Clerambault

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none." --Thomas Carlyle, Pride

About Individualism and Identity

"You should float
What floats your boat
And be who you will be,
You're not like them--
Chameleons--
Don't blend in, be seen." --V.J. Lynn

"How glorious it is--and how painful also--to be an exception." --Alfred de Musset

"Why, when I most want to be seen, am I rendered invisible?" --Ellis Cose

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." --Anon.

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." --Adlai Stevenson

"It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay." --Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

"Every man has two names: the one he is given and the one he wins for himself." --Stephen R. Lawhead

"We become what we are by the radical and profound rejection of what others have said about us." --Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth"

"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions." --Adlai Stevenson, Speech in NYC, 8/25/1952

"People have one thing in common--they are all different." --Robert Zend

About Forgiveness, Revenge, and Repentance

"Forgiveness if the sweet fragrance a flower produces after it has been trampled upon." --A Blind Man

"A wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of time and will nto suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." --Anon.

"Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never--it's not in his nature." --Lawrence Stern, Sermons

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake, Jerusalem

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." --Alexander Pope

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing over, he is superior." Anon.

"Vengeance always springs from the weakness of spirit, which is incapable of enduring insults and injuries." --La Rouchefoucald, Maximes

"Repentance is the vomit of the soul." --Anon.

About Success, Goals, Glory, and Perserverance
"To burn always with a hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." --Walter Pater, The Renaissance

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." --Emily Dickinson

"Success is never having to admit you're unhappy." --Robert Evans

"You don't want to find yourself working over-time to make up for lost time." --Mother Wit

"If you're afraid of falling, don't climb." --John Thompson

"I remain humble and hyngry. And perserverance is a key. I just don't give up." --Avery Johnson

"Be careful what you set your heart on for someday it will be yours." --Anon.

"It is a most mortifying reflection of a man to consider what he has done compared to what he might have done." --Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's LIFE

"Paths are not for destinations; they're for journeys." --Japanese Proverb

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." --Pearl S. Buck, A Bridge For Passing

"O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible." --Pindar, Odes, 5th Century B.C.

"There is but one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way, all the while giving glory to our Creator." --Anon.

"To rise to higher joy is to risk deeper sorrow. Do I dare reach for the sun?" --Rose

"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be." --John Fowles, The Magus

"Glory out to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions." --Pliny the Younger, Letters, c. A.D. 100

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." --Anon.

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." --Wayne Gretzky

"Even if you're on the right tracks, you'll get run over if you just sit there." --Anon.

"Having no way as way--having no limitation as limitation." --Bruce Lee

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we've already done." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Failure is the oppurtunity to begin again more intelligently." --Henry Ford

"When you were born, the world rejoiced and you cried. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." --Anon.

"What good are sparks that upward fly
From the blaze of fires we start
If they surrender to cold, night skies
And faint before they reach the stars." --V.J.Lynn

"He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --Jim Eliot

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing... Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." --Helen Keller, The Open Door

"He who lives on hope has a slender diet." --Scottish Proverb