I have two daughters, and neither has a cast in her eye.
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Hanging gangs by hap.
Proverbs and old sayingsFire dies for lack of wood; if there's no whispering,...
Proverbs and old sayings about gossip, fire, fire brigadeBetwixt two stools the doup fas down.
Proverbs and old sayings GermanEvents of the day 7 September
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire...
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian...
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I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am....
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Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction...
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of...
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the...
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is...
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the...
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The insolvent debtor
Home walked she from the mill
Her sack was down and she
Could not lift it again.
"May I help? " "What? " "For pay! "
And in the narrow lane
Good girls shouldn't wave away
Such offers and say "nay".
That she agreed was plain.
With...
Poems by George Coșbuc about kiss, help, judges, meetings, question, things, end, good, good luck, homeYesterday
What was yesterday like?
Ah, yesterday was yesterday.
I remember the order of stars:
Three were alike, three were alone
One was fostering a bigger star
With a wing flapping over the sea
Distended from another ocean.
It had no...
NPoems by Nicolae Sirius
The ascension of words
Thus, like the skin
of a shorn ewe, the day rises.
It is difficult to skin the self from a stone.
It is difficult to skin memory from a Greek.
But why should we talk about these!
After all,
light too has a skin,
light too can be...
Poems by Nichita Stănescu about light, hunger, memory, self-control, air, angels, being, word, blood, heartIn the cone of light
A poet was musing the dark.
I knew it too. I told my friends,
And implied the words were not mine.
But they only laughed
And pushed my head into the penumbra of light.
"Look, look, they eagerly cried;
His face is like thunder, like...
NPoems by Nicolae Sirius about home, affection, need, light, autumn, question, wish, hope, house, word
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The wolf preys farthest from his home.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about home
A performing masquerade who tries too hard to outclass his colleagues may expose his anus.
Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian
Peace with a club in hand is war.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about war, peace
A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about happiness
There are 3 simple rules in life:
- don't promise when you're happy,
- don't answer when you're nervous,
- don't decide when you're angry.
Proverbs and old sayings British about life, rules, promise, happiness, contentment
Man's law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Proverbs and old sayings Croatian about spirit, law, man
What grows when it eats, but dies when it drinks?
Fire.
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If the pills were pleasant, they would not want gilding.
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Bovarism
Bovarism is the term that denotes a person's state of discontent towards its own existence, constructing a fictitious personality to match his ideals. This alter ego of the person functions as a protection from too cruel world for which is not...
A priori - a posteriori
A priori - the term means before any experience, independent from any experience, from the earlier. This term is in close relationship with its opposite a posteriori , from experience, from the later. Both expressions are used in Philosophy and...
Phoenix bird
Quite often we hear around us being used the expression - "Reborn from the ashes as the Phoenix bird" and perhaps many times, we fail to make the connection between the depicted situation and expression – Phoenix bird. The word originates in the...
