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Funny Irish sayings. As you slide down the bannister of life, may the splinters never point the wrong way. There are only two kinds of people in this world: The Irish and those who wish they were.
A Meditation Upon a Broomstick is a short satire and parody written by Jonathan Swift in 1701. It was first published by Edmund Curll in 1710, against Swift's wishes. The book is a parody of Robert Boyle's meditations and their religious themes. Swift's meditations on the fate of men are intentionally nihilistic.
Walk softly but carry a big stick (26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1900 in letter relating an old African proverb) [33] Walls have ears; Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs; Waste not, want not; Well begun is half done; What does not kill me makes me stronger; Well done is better than well said; What cannot be cured must be endured
The broom overdoes its job and when chopped into pieces, each splinter becomes a new broom that flood the room until Yen Sid stops them. This story comes from a poem by Goethe called Der Zauberlehrling ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice"). The Disney brooms have had recurring cameos in Disney media, mostly portrayed as janitors, albeit not out of ...
Broom-Hilda is an American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Russell Myers. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency , [ 1 ] it depicts the misadventures of a man-crazy, cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling, 1,500-year-old witch and her motley crew of friends.
A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland and North America because they ...
Norton then published Bonfires and Broomsticks in 1947, and the two children's books were then combined into Bed-Knob and Broomstick in 1957. In 1961, Disney was in negotiations for the film rights to Mary Poppins with P. L. Travers ; a film adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks was suggested as an alternative project in case the rights were ...
A broom, when described as a means of transport for witches and others who perform magic, is often called a broomstick. As such, it is what one rides on during a game of Quidditch. The Three Broomsticks, a fictional restaurant in the Harry Potter universe