Where the quotations come from

I’ve included a number of quotations which express in a pithy way what I am trying to say.

 A number are from the Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (New edition, Bloomsbury, London, 1990), referred to as TDQ.

Others are from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950), referred to as ODQ.

Yet others from The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (London, 1986), compiled by Fred Metcalf, referred to as MHQ.

The page from which the quotation is taken is given in each case.

Ch.1. Why write.

The second and third paragraphs are based on the third epistle of the poet Alexander Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’.

John Keats, (TDQ, 135)

Charles Cotton (ODQ, 103)

Bacon on books, (ODQ,16)

Ch 2. Who are you?

Simone de Beauvoir (TDQ,444)

Ralph Linton, The Study of Man, (New York, 1937), pp.326-7

Ch.3. Families

Oscar Wilde (ODQ, 460)

Lillian Carter (TDQ,140)

Anthony Powell (TDQ, 141)

The old Pomo Indian is quoted in an article by B.W.Aginsky, quoted in E.Adamson Hoebel, Man in the Primitive World, (New York, 1^st edition, 1949), pp.236-7.

Ch5 Friendship

 Eileen Power,  Medieval Women (Cambridge, 1975), p.416

George Eliot (ODQ, 144)   

Ch6 Games

George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Penguin, 1982),p.39

New Guinea -  K.E.Read, cited in Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (London, 1966), p.30

Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, (London, 1947), p.303

Ch9 Witchcraft

 Albert Einstein,  TDQ,  p.355

Ch10 Terrorism

Edwin Muir’s poem is called ‘The Good Town’

Roosevelt (TDQ, 143)

Ch11. Religion

Montaigne, (TDQ, 356)

Montesquieu (TDQ, 356)

Heller, (MHQ, 112)

Nietzsche  (MHQ,112)

Rupert Brooke’s poem is called ‘Heaven’

Ch12 Ritual

Sacrifice (Psalm 51, v.17)

Horace Miner on dentists, quoted in Carol and Melvin Ember, Cultural Anthropology (New Jersey, 1973), p.21

Ch14 Thinking blocks

Popper (TDQ, 214)

Oscar Wilde (MHQ, 130)

Ch15 Democracy

Attlee (TDQ, 95)

Defoe (TDQ, 424)

Winston Churchill (MHQ, 71)

John Stuart Mill (ODQ, 266)

Ch17 Bureaucracy

C.Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law or the Pursuit of Progress (John Murray, 1965), pp.15-6

Herbert Samuel TDQ, 47

Anon, MHQ, 53

Ch18 Law

James Matthew (TDQ,212)

Jonathan Swift (ODQ,417)

Montaigne on torture, Michel de Montaigne, Essays, reprinted in the Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, ed. Marion Lowenthal (New York, 1956), p.181

Ch19 Inequality

Henry Becque   (TDQ, 126)

Ch21 Work

Jerome K Jerome (TDQ, 191) 

Ch22 Media

Joshua  Meyorwitz, No Sense of Place; the Impact of Electronic Media (New York, 1985), p.309

Ch24 Famine

Matthew Henry, (ODQ,185)

Ch27 Beauty

Rupert Brook’s poem is called ‘The Great Lover’

Ch28 Sex

Montaigne is in The Essays of Montaigne, trans E.J.Trechmann, (Oxford, 1942), volume 1, pp.108, 110 (essay ‘Of Custom’)

Ch29 Mind

Albert Einstein, (TDQ, 369)

Woody Allen (MHQ,167) 

Francis Bacon (ODQ,15)

Jorge Luis Borges, The Total Library; Non-fiction, 1922-1986 (London, 1999), p.231

Rudyard Kipling (TDQ,449)

Japanese proverb (TDQ,212

Benjamin Lee Whorf, TDQ, 216.

Ch30 Why

William Hazlitt (TDQ, 204)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, (TDQ, 370)