hypercatalectic having an extra syllable on the end of a line of verse

waldosia n. [Brit. wallesia] A condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brains way of checking to see whether they're still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day. ~ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Brandy Davis, an outfielder and teammate of mine with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is my choice for team captain. Cincinnatti was beating us 3-1, and I led off the bottom of the eighth with a walk. The next hitter banged a hard single to right field. Feeling the wind at my back, I rounded second and kept going, sliding safely into third base. With runners at first and third, and home-run hitter Ralph Kiner at bat, our manager put in the fast Brandy Davis to run for the player at first. Even with Kiner hitting and a change to win the game with a home run, Brandy took off for second and made it. Now we had runners at second and third. I'm standing at third, knowing I'm not going anywhere, and see Brandy start to take a lead. All of a sudden, here he comes. He makes a great slide into third, and I scream, "Brandy, where are you going?" He looks up, and shouts, "Back to second if I can make it." -- Joe Garagiola, "It's Anybody's Ball Game"

One day you'll either wake up and never go back to sleep, or go to sleep and never wake up again ―ihatepepperballs, Oct 2016

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Include me out. -Samuel Goldwyn

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ~ Aristotle

That advice should be taken wherever example has failed, or precept be regarded where warning is ridiculed, is like a picture of hope resting on despair; but when time shall stamp with universal currency the facts you have long encountered with a laugh, and the irresistible evidence of accumulated losses, like the handwriting on the wall, shall ad terror to distress, you will then, in a conflict of suffering, learn to sympathize with others by feeling for yourselves. -- Thomas Paine, The Crisis

... the privileged being which we call human is distinguished from other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in charity we can only call "inhuman." -- R. A. Lafferty

Give way to your worst impulse.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. -- Carl Jung

Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition: 60. Never use Latinum where your words will do

Eneg: Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men become... insensitive. "Star Trek: The Original Series: Patterns of Force, Season 2"

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction - E. F. Schumacher

Upsight A sudden, usually unlooked-for moment of clear understanding. ~ From the glossary of 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson

My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it." -- Erich Maria Remarque

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must accept responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it." -- Don Juan

If for every rule there is an exception, then we have established that there is an exception to every rule. If we accept "For every rule there is an exception" as a rule, then we must concede that there may not be an exception after all, since the rule states that there is always the possibility of exception, and if we follow it to its logical end we must agree that there can be an exception to the rule that for every rule there is an exception. -- Bill Boquist

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. -- Groucho Marx

When I first arrived in this country I had only fifteen cents in my pocket and a willingness to compromise. -- Weber cartoon caption

With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"