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The rhyme-as-reason effect, also known as the Eaton–Rosen phenomenon, [1] [2] [3] is a cognitive bias where sayings or aphorisms are perceived as more accurate or truthful when they rhyme. In experiments, participants evaluated variations of sayings that either rhymed or did not rhyme.
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Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16] Love makes the world go around
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
In vino veritas is a Latin phrase that means ' in wine, there is truth ', suggesting a person under the influence of alcohol is more likely to speak their hidden thoughts and desires. The phrase is sometimes continued as, in vīnō vēritās, in aquā sānitās , ' in wine there is truth, in water there is good sense (or good health) ' .
“There aren’t many things the body does that alcohol doesn’t impact.” Here are some notable drugs, and the dangers of mixing them with booze. Watch out for the 10 signs that you’re ...
Jessica Simpson is proud to be sober after previously struggling with alcohol addiction. The singer had long relied on alcohol to help her cope with traumas in her past. Her dependence came to a ...
In private company, no one should drink a sip of alcohol before having toasted all the other people at the table. In doing this, it is very important to look directly into the other drinker's eyes. Not practising this is considered rude and often, humorously, believed to attract all kinds of bad luck (e.g. "seven years of bad luck" and the like).