Doctor’s Adage Without pains, No gains. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1735 Double Entendre A haughty matron was looking at a proof of a photograph of her that had just been taken at a swank photography studio. […]
Egyptian Proverb No one can circumvent the skillful of heart. They who know his wisdom do not attack him, and no misfortune occurs where he is. Truth comes to him fully brewed, in accordance with […]
From Lectures on the English Poets Fame is not popularity. It is the spirit of a man surviving himself in the minds and thoughts of other men. …William Hazlitt The Virtue of Anonymity The first […]
Occult Exposure Mockery is at the heart of Satanism. …Michael Hoffman In and Out In the ranks of our Armenian organizations, there are a significant number of self-promoters who know how to talk themselves […]
Armenian Folk Music History Gomidas Vartabed created the 300-member “Kusan” Choir and gave concerts in various places in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Five of its members (Parsegh Ganatchian, Mihran Toumajan, Vartan Sarxian, Vagharshag Servantsdiantz, […]
Apegha In the Armenian Church the term apegha serves to designate a celibate priest who has fulfilled his final vows, but has yet to complete his doctoral dissertation to be ordained a vartabed. In the […]
Can’t Have One Without the Other Where the light is brightest, the shadows are darkest. …Goethe Past, Present, Future But for what was, what is could never be. Daffy-nition Bank: an institution where […]
Arabian Proverb Never give advice in a crowd. Ghost of a Chance An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. …Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Daffy-nition Kiss: A noun, though […]
Proverbially Speaking A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom. …Lord John Russell Modern Philosophy Most men, generically speaking, labor under the illusion that there is a supreme being, just and benevolent. […]
Of Scholarship and Academe One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. …Rudyard Kipling From the Trivia File There was a time when […]
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