Swedish Proverb One should go invited to a friend in good fortune and uninvited in misfortune. Daffy-nition Snob: A person who wants to know only the people who don’t want to know him. Divided […]
Spanish Proverb An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Success or Failure? The nineteenth-century naturalist, John Muir, the planet’s first ecoactivist, hiked through thousands of miles of American back country, lobbied feverishly […]
The Memoirs of Roustam: Napoleon’s Mamluk Imperial Bodyguard Edited with annotations & introduction by Ara Ghazarians & translated by Catherine Carpenter The Memoirs of Roustam is a piece unmatched in Napoleonic literature, and with such […]
Napoleonic Palindrome Able was I ere I saw Elba. A Prescription A husband should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife. …E.W. Howe Scottish Folklore Life is truly froth and […]
Polish Proverb Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother. Daffy-nition Childish games: those at which your wife beats you. Does Medicare Know? Surgeons know nothing but do everything. […]
Armenian Proverb An educated person will be an understanding person. From One Writer to Another Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it […]
A Matter of Life and Death Our Birth made us Mortal, our Death will make us Immortal. …Thomas Fuller Folk Limerick A beautiful lady named Psyche Is loved by a fellow named Yche. One thing […]
Sicilian Proverb If you don’t know by age twenty, don’t do by age thirty, don’t have by age forty, you will never know, never do, and never have A Sound Mind in a Rich Body […]
Then and Now Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. …William Penn Arcane Philosophy Possessions are immortal; when you’re gone, they’re still around. Lexophilia from the Internet • Venison for dinner […]
Native American Proverb Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food. Daffy-nition Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, and scorn in the driver ahead. …Mac McCleary A History […]
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