Twice Golden
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something.
… Wilson Mizner
Popular Wisdom
A good education enables you to earn more than a good educator.
A Handy Saying
Hands are said to be of five classes:
- Idealistic – delicate, with long and pointed fingers.
- Realistic – with short, square fingers.
- Energetic – with spatulated fingers.
- Philosophic – with rough fingers, knotted at the points.
- Mixed – with the characteristics mixed.
Automation
Within her automatic home
The housewife lolls and lingers;
No longer plagued by dishpan hands;
Instead push-button fingers.
From My Persian Dictionary
´Aks: inversion
Daʽvat: invitation
Uttú: iron (clothes)
Parisháni: irregularity
Epitaph
On Meredith, an organist at St. Mary Winton College, Oxford:
Here lies one blown out of breath
Who lived a merry life, and died a
Merideth.
What’s in a Name?
Giureghian: Greek in derivation, identified as a proper name, Giuregh is the Armenian form of the name Cyril, which is defined as lordly, masterful.
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