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The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing; The light is on but nobody is home; The longest day must have an end; The longest journey starts with a single step; The Moon is made of green cheese; The more the merrier; The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton
Conservative journalist Victor Lasky wrote in his book It Didn't Start With Watergate that, while two wrongs do not make a right, if a set of immoral things are done and left unprosecuted, this creates a legal precedent. Thus, people who do the same wrongs in the future should rationally expect to get away with them as well.
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
The exact origins of "Pictures from Life's Other Side" are disputed. Some researchers date the song back to around 1880 and cite a singing-school teacher from Athens, Georgia named John B. Vaughan as its composer, while others credit Charles E. Baer. [2] Regardless, the song was well known; early country singers Vernon Dalhart and Bradley Kincaid had already recorded it and Woody Guthrie cut a ...
Rhetorical criticism – analysis of the symbolic artifacts of discourse—the words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films, etc. that people use to communicate; there are many different forms of rhetorical criticism. Rhetorical question – a question asked to make a point instead of to elicit a direct answer.
Brazy "Brazy" is another word for "crazy," replacing the "c" with a "b." It can also be used to describe someone with great skill or who has accomplished something seemingly impossible.
The left’s push to use bad words makes me think of how wonderful word wonk Susie Dent might describe it. She calls herself, "That woman in Dictionary Corner" and regularly posts obscure terms ...
art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime to acquire. arte et labore: by art and by labour: Motto of Blackburn Rovers F.C. arte et marte: by skill and by fighting