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# Purple Cow Parodies

Parodies of the poem "The Purple Cow" by Gelett Burgess.

## By Carolyn Wells

* A cow of purple is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases. I have never Seen this phenomenon.
** "John Keats"
* She lived unknown, that Cow, and so I never chanced to see; But if I had to be one, oh, The difference to me!
** "William Wordsworth"
* For the wind is in the gum-tree, And the hay is in the mow, And the cow-bells are a-calling "Come and see a Purple Cow!"
** "Rudyard Kipling"
* Hence, vain deluding cows. The herd of folly, without colour bright, How little you delight, Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse!
** "John Milton"
* I dream of a purple creature Which is not as kine are now; And resembles cattle only As Cowper resembles a cow.
** "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
* Though cows of rare sorts I am buying, Not one breathes a balm to my breast. Oh, rapturous, rose-crowned occasion, When I such a glory might see! But a cow of a purple persuasion I never would be.
** "Algernon Swinburne"
* Our most hearty laughter Something sad must rouse. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows.
** "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
* Full many a cow of purplest ray serene Is haply grazing where I may not see; Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween, But neither of these creatures would I be.
** "Thomas Gray"
* Ask me no more. A cow I fain would see Of purple tint, like a sun-soaked grape -
** "Alfred Tennyson"
* Open then I flung a shutter, And, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a Purple Cow which gayly tripped around my floor.
** "Edgar Allan Poe"

## By Oliver Herford

* Corniferous wet-nurse of the human race, Calm, comfortable cow, with placid pride Yielding your offering at eventide
** "Thomas Gray"

## By Susan and David Hollander

* And to my horror down the lane Came a sight; I froze inside A spectral cow with purple hide.
** "Edgar Allan Poe"
* In Bovine majesty she stands, Her purple tail she swings, The amethyst cow
** "Emily Dickinson"

## References

* "Diversions of the Re-Echo Club" by Carolyn Wells in The Book of Humorous Verses compiled by Carolyn Wells. Copyright 1920, 1936 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

## External links

* Angryox site
* Poemhunter
# Purusha

Purusha (Sanskrit: पुरुष, IAST: Puruṣa) is a complex concept whose meaning evolved in Vedic and Upanishadic times. Depending on source and historical timeline, it means the cosmic man or it means Self, Consciousness, and Universal principle. In early Vedas, Purusa meant a cosmic man whose sacrifice by the gods created all life. This was one of many creation theories discussed in the Vedas. The idea parallels Norse Ymir, with the myth's origin in Proto-Indo-European religion.

## Quotes
### Vedas

* A thousand heads hath Puruṣa, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet. On every side pervading earth he fills a space ten fingers wide. This Puruṣa is all that yet hath been and all that is to be.
** Rigveda, Book X, Hymn XC, as translated by T. H. Griffith (1896)

### Upanishads

* Splendid and without a bodily form is this Purusha, without and within, unborn, without life breath and without mind, higher than the supreme element. From him are born life breath and mind. He is the soul of all beings.
** From the Mundaka Upanishad, as translated by Klaus Klostermair, A Survey of Hinduism, 3rd ed. (State University of New York Press, 2007), p. 170

### Puranas

* Oh leader of Kurus! From the mouth of the Puruṣa came forth Brahman (the Veda) and the Brāhmaṇa class like syllables coming out from the mouth (head). Hence the Brāhmaṇa Varṇa became the foremost among the Varṇas.From his arms emanated the power of protection and the Kṣatriya class who follows that vow, viz. the duty of protecting the world. This class born from Puruṣa (Lord Viṣṇu) protects the classes of people from wounds (i.e. injuries or troubles) caused by thorns (in the form of miscreants).From the thighs of that All-pervading Lord were born the vocations like agriculture which maintain the livelihood of the public. The Vaiśya class, born from the same part of the body, carries out trades and agriculture for the maintenance of people.From the feet of the Lord was born to service for the achievement of religion. Formerly the Śūdra class was born for the sake of service, whereby Hari is pleased.
** Bhagavata Purana, Book 3, Chapter 6, as translated by G. V. Tagare (1950)

### Vedanta

* That Supreme Being (purusha), Partha, is attained by undivided devotion. The living beings are situated within him and he pervades this entire world.
** Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 8, verse 22, as translated by Nicholas Sutton (2016), p. 133
* You are the Supreme Brahman, the supreme abode and the supreme purifier. You are the eternal divine purusha, the primordial Deity, unborn and all-pervading.
** Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 10, verse 12, as translated by Nicholas Sutton (2016), p. 157
** Arjuna refers to Krishna as purusha in several verses, such as Chapter 10, verse 12; Chapter 11, verse 18; Chapter 11, verse 38
# Purushottam L. Bhargava

Purushottam L. Bhargava (born May 29, 1909 in Alwar, Rajasthan) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and Head of the Sanskrit Department at Rajasthan University.

## Quotes

* The first chapter of the Vendidad or the handbook of the Parsees enumerates sixteen holy lands created by Ahura Mazda which were later rendered unfit for the residence of man (i.e. the ancestors of the Iranians) on account of different things created by Angra Mainyu, the evil spirit of the Avesta… The first of these lands was of course Airyana Vaejo which was abandoned by the ancestors of the Iranians because of severe winter and snow; of the others, one was Hapta Hindu, i.e. Saptasindhu.
** (P.L. Bhargava quoted in TALAGERI 1993a:180). TALAGERI 1993a: “The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism”, Voice of India, New Delhi, 1993. Quoted in
* The fact that Indra is said to have given the possessions of the Anu king to the Tṛtsus in the battle of Paruṣṇī shows that the Anus dwelt on the banks of the Paruṣṇī.
** BHARGAVA 1956/1971: India in the Vedic Age: A History of Aryan Expansion in India. Upper India Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. Lucknow, 1956. (BHARGAVA 1956/1971:130).
# Pastoral

The pastoral genre of literature, art, or music depicts an idealised form of the shepherd's lifestyle – herding livestock around open areas of land according to the seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. The target audience is typically an urban one. A pastoral is a work of this genre. A piece of music in the genre is usually referred to as a pastorale. The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Greek βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd.

## Quotes

* Et in Arcadia ego.
* Even in Arcadia, there am I [i.e. Death]
** Origin unknown; adopted by Poussin and Il Guercino
* Polonius: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
** William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2
* In time of yore when shepherds dwelt Upon the mountain rocks, And simple people never felt The pain of lovers’ mocks; But little birds would carry tales ’Twixt Susan and her sweeting, And all the dainty nightingales Did sing at lovers’ meeting: Then might you see what looks did pass Where shepherds did assemble, And where the life of true love was When hearts could not dissemble.Then yea and nay was thought an oath That was not to be doubted, And when it came to faith and troth We were not to be flouted. Then did they talk of curds and cream, Of butter, cheese and milk; There was no speech of sunny beam Nor of the golden silk. Then for a gift a row of pins, A purse, a pair of knives, Was all the way that love begins; And so the shepherd wives.But now we have so much ado, And are so sore aggrievèd, That when we go about to woo We cannot be believèd; Such choice of jewels, rings and chains, That may but favour move, And such intolerable pains Ere one can hit on love; That if I still shall bide this life ’Twixt love and deadly hate, I will go learn the country life Or leave the lover’s state.
** Nicholas Breton, "Olden Love-making" or "Antique Courtship" (wr. before 1568)
** W. S. Braithwaite, A Book of Elizabethan Verse (1906) prefaces this poem with the following comment: “There can be no harm in quoting here one little poem, a description of love-making in the happy days of pastoral simplicity, when girls did not look for costly presents (rings, chains, etc.) from their lovers, but were content with a row of pins or an empty purse,—the days when truth was on every shepherd’s tongue and maids had not learned to dissemble. Whether there was ever such a time, since our first parents were driven out of Paradise, we need not stop to enquire. The old poets loved to talk about it.”
* O Attic shape! fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
** John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (wr. 1819; pub. 1820)
# Pasuya Yao

Pasuya Yao (姚文智; Yáo Wénzhì), born 4 December 1965, is a politician in Taiwan (Republic of China). He was the Minister of Government Information Office in 2005 - 2006.

## Quotes

* Taipei is not only the nation's capital, but also the engine of its economy. Yet, in the past few years the city's economy has shrunk and has been surpassed by New Taipei City.
** Pasuya Yao (2017) cited in "Pasuya Yao throws hat in mayoral ring" on Taipei Times, 24 July 2017.
# Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

## Quotes
### Border Crossing (2001)

* But sir, certainly, there isn't any proof as to my guilt...
** Danny
* The man needs to learn how to controll his anger, he is crossing a border here, and he has no right
** Inspector rogers
* The forensic evidence for Danny's guilt was overwhelming, but he was a good liar.
* Danny was a bottomless pit. He wanted other people to fill him, only in the process the other people ended up drained.
* ...the horror of the images impossible to connect with the child he'd just left.
* I thought he was one of the most dangerous boys we've ever had through the school.
** Mrs. Greene
* I don't know why I killed her, I didn't know then and I don't know now. And I don't know how to live with it.
** Danny to Tom
* But [Tom] was used to switching off, to living his life in separate compartments.
* [Tom] denies [Lauren] his attention in memory, as he did in life.
* [Tom had] learnt to value detachment: the clinician's splinter of ice in the heart.
* When we got married, you didn't even want kids. It was... you and me.
** Tom
* [Tom] was fed up to the back teeth with being a walking, talking sperm bank.
* It was extraordinarily distracting: this feeling of a pivotal moment in his own life being played out in front of an uninvited audience.
* [Danny] was very, very good at getting people to step across that invisible border. Lambs to the slaughter.
* You wring a chicken's neck, you don't expect to find it running round the yard next morning, do you?
** Danny
* Do you think it's different, killing a rabbit and killing a person?
* They'd awoken that morning to a curious stillness. Clouds sagged over the river, and there was mist like sweat over the mudflats.
* [Tom] was less than halfway across the causeway when the mist thickened.
* The fired burnt furiously, piled high with logs. Danny had dragged the log basket onto the hearth rug and was kneeling beside it, a log in each hand, watching the fire burn.
* A rasp and flare as [Danny] struck the match. A doubled reflection of the flame appeared in his eyes, whose pupils had not contracted, as one would have expected, but grown large, as if starved for light.
* A second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice.
* The boy [Danny] looked like a baby: purple faced, wet hair, that drowned look of a newborn, cast up on to its mother's suddenly creased and spongy belly.
* ...he'd seen the boy's [Danny's] body hang suspended... an umbilical cord of silver bubbles linking his slack mouth to the air.
* [Lauren's] eyes were glazed, inward-looking. Like labour, Tom thought, the irony as sour as the mud on his tongue.
* Do you think confession's the only route to redemption?
# Swabian proverbs

Swabian is an High German dialect spoken in south-central Germany.

## M

* Man muss den Beutel nicht weiter aufthun er ist.
** English equivalent: Cut your coat according to your cloth.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "80" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. p. 47.
* Man soll willige Ross nicht übertreiben.
** English equivalent: Do not spur a willing horse.
** von Düringsfeld, Ida; von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Otto (1875). "221, Pferd" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. p. 123.

## W

* Was a Häple weada (ein Häkchen werden) will, muss sich bald krümma (krümmen).
** English equivalent: Soon crooks the tree that good gambrel would be.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "671, Haken" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. pp. 348-349.
* Was zeitig wird zubald, Wird faul und selten.
** English equivalent: Early ripe, early rotten.
** von Düringsfield, Ida; von Düringsfield, Otto (1875). "521, früh" (in German). Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend. I. p. 268-269.

## See Also

* Altmark proverbs
* Bremen proverbs
* Eifel and Hunsrück proverbs
* German proverbs
* Hannover Göttingen and Grubenhagen proverbs
* Jever proverbs
* Luxembourgish proverbs
* Old Bavarian proverbs
* Old German proverbs
* Old Swizz German proverbs
* Silesian proverbs
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* Upper German proverbs
* Württemberg proverbs
# Swahili proverbs

Proverbs of the Swahili language

## Proverbs (alphabetical)

* Baada ya dhiki faraja.
** After hardship comes relief.
* Ngozi ya chui uzuri kwa macho, ndani adui.
** A leopard skin is beautiful to see, but inside there is an enemy.
* Dhamiri safi ni tandiko laini.
** A clear conscience is a soft mat.
* Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe.
** The prayer of the fowl does not bother the hawk.
* Fadhila ya punda ni mateke.
** The gratitude of a donkey is a kick.
* Fuata nyuki ule asali.
** Follow bees that you may eat honey.
* Haraka haraka haina baraka.
** Hurry, hurry, has no blessings.
* Hisani haiozi.
** Kindness does not go bad.
* Jogoo mtenda mema kaliwa.
** The rooster, always beneficial, is eaten.
* Kibarua hulima juani, tajiri hulia kivulini.
** A day-worker cultivates in the sun, the master eats in the shade.
* Msinji ukiinama hauna nguvu; usiushtaki ukuta ukianguka.
** A foundation that is not level is not strong; don't blame the wall if it falls down.
* Ukijifanya asali nzi wote watakula.
** If you make yourself [like] honey all the flies will devour you.
# Sviatoslav Shevchuk

Sviatoslav Shevchuk (5 May 1970 –) is a prelate of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* We ask for solidarity. Do not forget us because if we are forgotten and abandoned, this earthquake that we are experiencing in Ukraine today will shake the entire world. We have hope that true solidarity saves lives; solidarity can help us find solutions that perhaps we have not yet identified today. Do not forget Ukraine; do not abandon us in our mourning and pain.
** Archbishop Shevchuk: 'Don't forget Ukraine!' (23 February 2024) Vatican News
# Sviatoslav Yurash

Sviatoslav Andriiovych Yurash (Ukrainian: Юраш Святослав Андрійович; born 16 February 1996) is a Ukrainian politician who represents the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), to which he was elected in 2019.

## Quotes

* For our nation, this (2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine) is a struggle for our very existence. We don't have a choice. We must stay, we must fight (the Russians).
** Sviatoslav Yurash (2022) cited in "EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine's MPs armed with rifles as civilians prepare to battle Vladimir Putin's army" on Mirror, 26 February 2022.
# Svengali (1983 film)

Svengali is a 1983 film about an old singer who coaches a young woman whom he believes will be the next singing sensation. As she starts off with her career, their bond gets stronger.
    Directed by Anthony Harvey. Written by Frank Cucci.

## Anton Bosnyak

* You shall hear nothing, you shall see nothing, you shall think nothing, you shall be nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali...

## Zoe Alexander

* The world does not collapse every time you stop looking at it.

## Dialogue

    Anton Bosnyak: Quite a little snot nose, that girl, always answering back.
    Eve Swiss: When I took lessons from you, you never used to let me say 'boo!'
    Anton Bosnyak: You had no talent. That always irritates me.
    Eve Swiss: So why did you keep taking my money, then?
    Anton Bosnyak: Somebody had to prove to you that you could not sing.
    Eve Swiss: [about Zoe] I have a lot of people lined up. When can we hear her?
    Anton Bosnyak: Give the fruit a little time to ripen before you strip it, will you.
    Eve Swiss: You know... I can't quite make up my mind whether or not she's beautiful. What do you think?
    Anton Bosnyak: When she sings the way I want her to sing... she's beautiful.
    Anton Bosnyak: Tonight, we will not have a lesson. From now on, I would like to work just once a week.
    Zoe Alexander: Why?
    Anton Bosnyak: Well... you're at a very good condition now, and... I need a rest.
    Zoe Alexander: Well, you've worked harder than I have.
    Anton Bosnyak: The young usually don't notice these things.
    Zoe Alexander: Not so young. Twenty-two.
    Anton Bosnyak: Hehe. Poor old lady.
    Anton Bosnyak: The word 'teach' means 'to make known'. When you came to me, you didn't know what you were, who you were, nothing. Together, we made your voice known to you; and we made it known to you by making yourself known to you. The sounds of loving that you make, your sounds of endurance, your betrayals...
    Zoe Alexander: You think I betrayed you?
    Anton Bosnyak: It doesn't matter! Together we were able to release what you are. The work of every artist is to make themselves wholly known. Now, I want you to go away, and amaze me.
    Zoe Alexander: I need you!
    Anton Bosnyak: No. You are intact now. Go away, and leave me intact. Please.
    Zoe Alexander: So... you're sending me away. It's all I was to you? Something, something "amazing", huh?
    Anton Bosnyak: That is all that matters.

## Cast

* Peter O'Toole — Anton Bosnyak
* Jodie Foster — Zoe Alexander
* Elizabeth Ashley — Eve Swiss
* Larry Joshua — Johnny Rainbow
* Pamela Blair — Trish
* Barbara Bryne — Mrs. Burns-Rizzo
* Ron Weyand — Hypnotist
* Robin Thomas — Mendy Weindenbaum
* Brian Carney — Abbot Renfrew
* Madeleine Potter — Antonia
* Holly Hunter — Leslie
* Vera Mayer — Gizella
* Stuart Charno — Boomer

## External links

* Svengali quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Svengali (1954 film)

Svengali is a 1954 film about a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer.
    Directed written by Noel Langley, based on the novel by George du Maurier.

## Dialogue

    Svengali: If you choose you can put all that nonsense behind you forever.
    Trilby O'Ferrall: And do what, starve?
    Svengali: Not if you put your trust in me absolutely, not if you do exactly what I tell you to do.

## Taglines

* She was a slave to his will!
* Master of Trilby!

## Cast

* Hildegard Knef — Trilby O'Ferrall
* Donald Wolfit — Svengali
* Terence Morgan — Billy Bagot
* Derek Bond — The Laird

## External links

* Svengali quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.

## Quotes

* I believe that all religions are true and different religions are only the different ways to the same God. For me God is the power of life and justice and when I am talking about God I am just talking about happiness to live and to enjoy life on earth. I feel that humanity should be one, that mankind should not be divided. The people should together work for much good. Well, this is my belief in God. Maybe I am not clear.
** "Svetlana Alliluyeva describes how she changed from Atheism", Daytona Beach Morning Journal, (May 20, 1967)
* You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others. The real good people are humble and silent (like your Kitty is). But beware, God sees all vanity and pride and you cannot fool him.
** Said to Malcolm Muggeridge, as quoted in Richard Ingrams (1996), Muggeridge: The Biography, p. 233
* People say, 'Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans," she once said. Or they say, 'No, she came here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others. No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between.
** Stalin's daughter Lana Peters dies in US of cancer, BBC News, (29 November, 2011).
* When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him anymore.
** Stalin's daughter Lana Peters dies in US of cancer, BBC News, (29 November, 2011).
# Theodor Nöldeke

Theodor Nöldeke (German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈnœldəkə]; born 2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German orientalist and scholar. His research interests ranged over Old Testament studies, Semitic languages and Arabic, Persian and Syriac literature. Nöldeke translated several important works of oriental literature and during his lifetime was considered an important orientalist. He wrote numerous studies (including on the Qur’ān) and contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica. He is credited with starting the higher criticism of the Qur’ān.[1]

## Quotes

* On the whole, while many parts of the Koran undoubtedly have considerable rhetorical power, even over an unbelieving reader, the book, æsthetically considered, is by no means a first-rate performance... Mohammed, in short, is not in any sense a master of style. This opinion will be endorsed by any European who reads through the book with an impartial spirit and some knowledge of the language, without taking into account the tiresome effect of its endless iterations. But in the ears of every pious Moslem such a judgment will sound almost as shocking as downright atheism or polytheism. Among the Moslems, the Koran has always been looked on as the most perfect model of style and language. This feature of it is in their dogmatic the greatest of all miracles, the incontestable proof of its divine origin. Such a view on the part of men who knew Arabic infinitely better than the most accomplished European Arabist will ever do, may well startle us. In fact, the Koran boldly challenged its opponents to produce ten súras, or even a single one, like those of the sacred book, and they never did so. That, to be sure, on calm reflection, is not so very surprising. Revelations of the kind which Mohammed uttered, no unbeliever could produce without making himself a laughing-stock.
** Theodor Nöldeke, Sketches from Eastern History, "The Koran". Trans. John Sutherland Black. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1892.