The neverending A TO Z OF WHATEVER GAME

"Victory or Death."
written by G. Washington before the attack on Trenton, NJ

Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence were:

Wilson, James--Pennsylvania
William Whipple--New Hampshire
William Ellery--Rhode Island
William Floyd--New York
Whythe, George--Virginia
Witherspoon, John--New Jersey
William Williams--Connecticut
Wolcott, Oliver--Connecticut
William Paca--Maryland

(the) X, Y, Z factor in Am. Hist.

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((When Adams became President, the war between the French and British was causing great difficulties for the United States on the high seas and intense partisanship among contending factions within the Nation.

His administration focused on France, where the Directory, the ruling group, had refused to receive the American envoy and had suspended commercial relations.

Adams sent three commissioners to France, but in the spring of 1798 word arrived that the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand and the Directory had refused to negotiate with them unless they would first pay a substantial bribe. Adams reported the insult to Congress, and the Senate printed the correspondence, in which the Frenchmen were referred to only as "X, Y, and Z."

The Nation broke out into what Jefferson called "the X. Y. Z. fever," increased in intensity by Adams's exhortations. The populace cheered itself hoarse wherever the President appeared. Never had the Federalists been so popular.))

On, danon! Choose the next topic!

Well, OK, Let us do Quotations - with the quotes beginning on a certain letter - or, a subject word highlighted in the quote beginning with the correct letter.

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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
-- Jean Rostand

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
-- Chinese Proverb

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

The common English expression "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" is derived from Virgil's Aeneid. Although many people think that the story of the Trojan horse comes from Homer, his Iliad ends before Odysseus comes up with the Trojan horse deception. The Odyssey takes place after the fall of Troy. It is Virgil's Aeneid, written in Latin, that fills the gap between those two events earlier described by the Greek Homer.

While "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" is the usual English phrasing, the original quotation from Virgil is quite different: "Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts." (Spoken by Laocoon, "Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.") The popular English "beware" idiom shortens the original and gives the phrase a bit more punch.

Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictively
Made in his image a mannikin merely to madden it.

Edgar Allan Poe.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker

Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead

Admiral David Farragut

said by Admiral Farragut during the Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay.

E Pluribus Unum.
One out of many.

Motto on title page of the Gentleman's Journal (Jan 1692),adopted as motto for the seal of the United States,June 20, 1782.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.
-- Tacitus

Fame is proof that people are gullible.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
-- James F. Byrnes

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Guns are unlawful; Nooses all give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

Dorothy Parker

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
-- George Herbert

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners--let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
-- Aldous Huxley

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
-- François de La Rochefoucauld

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

big assed grin!!!!!

I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
I dream of a rural life - raising cheques.
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. (Sam) Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

All my the late great Dorothy Parker

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is Power.
-- Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power--if you know it about the right people.
-- Anon.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
-- Peter Benchley

You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
-- William Blake

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde


Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers

Men never make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker

Better to see the face than to hear the name.
-- Zen Saying

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man must go back to nature for information.
-- Thomas Paine

A little neglect may breed great mischief.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Neutral men are the devil's allies.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
George Orwell