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Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business. Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1]Hours fly, Flowers die.
2. “You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school.
Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings is an anthology of 400 humorous quotes from John Lennon and Groucho Marx on a variety of themes. Quotations are thematically collected in such a way that the top section of a page contains Marx's quotes, and the bottom section contains Lennon's.
Ole, Lena, Sven and others still speak with the marring accent and fractured English of the immigrant who just arrived. Humor of this sort is intended to maintain a sense of perspective. The core of this folk humor is probably the strongly egalitarian sense that permeates the cultural code in the Nordic countries.
Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical-musical film directed by William Wyler and written by Isobel Lennart, adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title. It is loosely based on the life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein .
This attitude to art and life can be summarized by Wilde's maxim, "When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value." [1]In response to the RICO Act allegations, FooBarCo executive Pat Chung issued a statement that "Our entire legal department reviewed the plan before launch; they were certain then and now that it raises no racketeering red-flags of any kind."
This is because wedding ceremonies were typically performed in the evenings when yang (representing days/male) and yin (representing nights/female) cross over. [3] 婚 was defined as the father of a man's wife (e.g. a man's father-in-law) in Erya, [4] but now it generally means "marriage" in Modern Standard Chinese.
Writers use scare quotes for a variety of reasons. They can imply doubt or ambiguity in words or ideas within the marks, [16] or even outright contempt. [17] They can indicate that a writer is purposely misusing a word or phrase [18] or that the writer is unpersuaded by the text in quotes, [19] and they can help the writer deny responsibility for the quote. [17]