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Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
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.
Drinking lemonade is usually considered more pleasant than eating raw lemons. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade is a proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity or misfortune.
Aristotle gave equal weight to women's happiness as he did to men's, commenting in Rhetoric that a society cannot be happy unless women are happy too. [1] Aristotle believed that in nature a common good came of the rule of a superior being; he states in Politics that "By nature the female has been distinguished from the slave.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: Excellence in women's health; Royal College of Anaesthetists: Divinum sedare dolorem (It is divine to alleviate pain / Divine is the effort to conquer pain) Royal College of General Practitioners: Cum Scientia Caritas (Scientific knowledge applied with compassion)
Although it is one of the most famous quotes from the work of Shakespeare, no printing in Shakespeare's lifetime presents the text in the form known to modern readers: it is a skillful amalgam assembled by Edmond Malone, an editor in the eighteenth century. Romeo and Juliet was published twice, in
Other expressions are: не бачити тобі ... як своїх вух ("you'll never see [something] like you will never see your ears"); на кінський Великдень ("on horse's Easter"; побачиш як власну потилицю ("you'll see it like your own nape").
Baby Thomas and Brooks watch adults and discuss them. Thomas and Belafonte take on various jobs performing "Parents Are People." Thomas tells a story about a pretty girl who always goes first, until she gets eaten by tigers. During a bath, Thomas and Brooks overhear a grown-up doing baby talk.