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You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all; You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar; You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain; You pay your money and you take your choice
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The expression originates from Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. [1] This is a pun on a mnemonic [citation needed] for the usage of the Latin word iam (formerly often written and pronounced jam), which means "at this time", but only in the future or past tense, not in the present (which is instead nunc "now").
Whichever way you decide to go—funny, inspiring, motivating, or even Dr. Suess (yes, of course he's here too!), we hope these short sayings make you smile. Motivating short quotes “The time is ...
[142] Earlier than O'Brian's Aubrey, Beatrice Grimshaw also used repeated splicings of proverbs in the mouth of an eccentric marquis to create a memorable character in The Sorcerer's Stone, [143] such as "The proof of the pudding sweeps clean" (p. 109) and "A stitch in time is as good as a mile" (p. 97). [144] Proverb from Spiderman now in ...
Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter. In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. [1]
Exempli gratiā is usually abbreviated "e. g." or "e.g." (less commonly, ex. gr.).The abbreviation "e.g." is often interpreted (Anglicised) as 'example given'. The plural exemplōrum gratiā to refer to multiple examples (separated by commas) is now not in frequent use; when used, it may be seen abbreviated as "ee.g." or even "ee.gg.", corresponding to the practice of doubling plurals in Latin ...
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