Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Aug. 7, 2010)
German Proverb A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth. Sound Advice Playing poker is like investing in the stock market. If you have a winning hand, raise. If you have a losing […]
German Proverb A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth. Sound Advice Playing poker is like investing in the stock market. If you have a winning hand, raise. If you have a losing […]
Turkish proverb Though men are brothers their pockets are not sisters. Homonymic A leading political candidate for public office attended a rally in his honor, and after giving a speech stood in a receiving line […]
For Those Who Already Know Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. …Alice Roosevelt Longworth Daffy-nition Blunt person: One who says what he thinks without thinking. From the […]
It Ain’t Necessarily So The Unrighteous Bible: An edition printed at Cambridge in 1653, containing the printer’s error, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit [for shall not inherit] the Kingdom of God?” (I […]
The Best of the Best The fact that people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart’s concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. … Johannes Brahms […]
From an Ancient Fidelity is the sister of justice. … Horace Tongue Twister Te te, ro ro, ma ma, nu nu, da da, te te, la la, te te! (Latin: Te tero, Roma, manu […]
Misplaced Virtue Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands. … Jean Giraudoux From the Internet A Smile for You Smiling is infectious; you catch it like […]
From the Word Lab Honorificabilitudinitatibus: A made–up word on the Lat. honorificabilitudo, honorableness, which frequently occurs in Elizabethan plays as an instance of sesquipedalian pomposity. Ex. “thou art not so long by the head as […]
The Radical Believer To a thinking person atheism is a prerequisite to spiritual enlightenment. However, it is not the end of the line. According to G.B. Shaw, that occurs when atheism is followed by mysticism. […]
Latin Proverb Beware the man of one book. Upon Reflection Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out. … Arthur Schopenhauer From the […]
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