Disposition to derision and ordsprog

en Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int
  Samuel Johnson

en To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho
  Oliver Goldsmith

en And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree

Comes not by casting in a formal mould,
But from its own divine vitality.
  William Wordsworth

en She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh. The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.

en Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
  Derek Walcott

en I think there is, no question about it, a confidence now. I see a little strut in them now, maybe a concerned strut. They just need some confidence, need to have some good things happen early and then stay together.

en REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Yesterday's ECB press conference [November 3, 2005] was great entertainment. Having not heard of Goethe very often in trading rooms as happened yesterday, here's my personal favorite from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that sometimes describes life as a research analyst/strategist: ">Das habe ich getan,< sagt mein Gedächtnis. >Das kann ich nicht getan haben< -- sagt mein Stolz und bleibt unerbittlich. Endlich -- gibt das Gedächtnis nach."

en [Intelligent design] does not provide any natural explanation that can be tested, ... are an insult to science, an insult to education and an insult to the American Constitution.

en The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity
  Michel de Montaigne

en Company and economic performance in Japan is still disappointing and bank lending over there is retracting, ... This is a swell of money into the yen, but at this point I think it's a very speculative swell.

en Company and economic performance in Japan is still disappointing and bank lending over there is retracting. This is a swell of money into the yen, but at this point I think it's a very speculative swell.

en It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.

en I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.


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