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Do not dish it if you can't take it; Do not judge a book by its cover; Do not keep a dog and bark yourself; Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet; Do not look a gift horse in the mouth; Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill; Do not meet troubles half-way; Do not put all your eggs in one basket
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.
Each desperate blockhead dares to write: as translated by Philip Francis. From Horace, Epistularum liber secundus (1, 117) [4] and quoted in Fielding's Tom Jones; lit: "Learned or not, we shall write poems without distinction." scuto amoris divini: by the shield of God's love: The motto of Skidmore College: seculo seculorum: forever and ever
All that glitters is not gold" is an aphorism stating that not everything that looks precious or true turns out to be so. While early expressions of the idea are known from at least the 12th–13th century, the current saying is derived from a 16th-century line by William Shakespeare , " All that glisters is not gold ".
However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment .
The squeaky wheel gets the grease is an American aphorism or metaphor attesting that matters which draw attention to themselves are more likely to be addressed than those which do not. [1] The term makes no necessary correlation between the volume of a complaint and its stridency with its merit.
Not all religious references in proverbs are positive. Some are cynical, such as the Tajik and Uzbek proverb, "Do as the mullah says, not as he does." [326] [327] An Indian proverb is cynical about devotees of Hinduism: "[Only] When in distress, a man calls on Rama". [328] In the context of Tibetan Buddhism, some Ladakhi proverbs mock the lamas ...