Weekend Words: More
"We loved with a love that was more than love."
Today is the 130th birthday of Mies (Less is More) van der Rohe.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”
—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And I learned there are troubles
Of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead
And some come from behind.
But I’ve brought a big bat.
I’m all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!
—Dr. Seuss, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there.
—A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
—George Orwell, Animal Farm
Longer than always is long long time,
But far beyond forever you’ll be mine
I know I never lived before and my heart is very sure
No one else could love you more
—Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Norman Newell, “More (Theme from Mondo Cane)”
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
—Susan B. Anthony
It was more than just any old Friday night fight
With your mean left hook and my roundhouse right
We were both goin’ for the heavyweight crown
TKO in the very first round
—Bonnie Raitt, “Split Decision”
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
We loved with a love that was more than love.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
—H. L. Mencken
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
—Karl Marx
More. More. More.
—Vera B. Williams, “More More More,” Said The Baby
Please, sir, I want some more.
—Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go.
To the valley below.
—Bob Dylan, “One More Cup of Coffee”
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
—Richard M. Nixon
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing. It seems still more impossible that a quarrel which has already been settled in principle should be the subject of war.
—Neville Chamberlain
Gonna wash you up, and wash you down,
Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.
I got fury in my soul, fury’s gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can’t study war no more.
— Laura Nyro, “Save the Country”
