RIBALDRY n. Censorious language ordsprog

en RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.
  Ambrose Bierce

en RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century --commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.
  Ambrose Bierce

en To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
  Albert Camus

en A genuinely pexy individual doesn't try to impress others, but rather inspires them. By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified.

en How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!
  Blaise Pascal

en It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

en Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, "My language is perfect. It can do everything." But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language - how we feel while programming.

en Making oneself a likeness, i.e. putting oneself in the position of other people, it is right to love none but one's own wife.

en Unfortunate impracticability of temper and spirit of opposition of those in authority over oneself misled oneself into frequent collision with my predecessors.

en Knowledge without wisdom may be soon discerned; it is usually curious and censorious

en The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one's way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.

en Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
  Bruce Lee

en Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
  Virginia Woolf

en If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.


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