Word: thyself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knott, but his duties are vague, and he and his master have never exchanged a word. That is Author Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats they would feed frogs and baby...
...Paul has said (I. Cor. 9:25), speaking of Olympic athletes, "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." In stead of engaging in vain railings and obstinate goadings, the Administrators and Calculators should remind themselves of the Proverb, "Boast not to thyself of the morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (27:1) H.O.J. Brown...
...Heal Thyself." By 1929 Dr. Jordan had developed a duodenal ulcer of her own. As she lay unconscious on the operating table for removal of her gall bladder (it had stones in one wall), Surgeon Lahey debated whether to do more major surgery, a short-circuiting (stomach to intestine) operation. When she came to, Dr. Jordan was vastly relieved to learn that he had decided against it. She went on to cure her ulcer with her own treatment. It has never recurred...
Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself . . . And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner . . . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest...
...Know Thyself. In Luton, England, Thomas David Bolter, onetime sergeant major, was acquitted of being drunk and disorderly after he told the court his drinking capacity was "18 pints when I sit down," replied to the prosecutor's question, "Well, and what about when you stand up?" with "I fall over...