Don't judge a book by its cover. (unless there's nothing inside it)
Why buy a cow when your neighbor's cow finds the grass is greener in your yard?
Ignorance is bliss I'm delighted to say.
don't count your chickens before they hatch, eat them.
Plato
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. But it still wouldn't hurt if you would work out sometimes.
don't put all your eggs in one basket, use an egg carton
A fool and his money are soon parted...I love me a fool. :wink:
If at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence of your attempt.
If at first you do succeed, try not to show your astonishment.
practice makes perfect insanity
"Killing two birds with one stone."
Because I hate birds' feces falling on my lovely head.
still waters run deep
not in my pool though
The road to hell is never closed for pothole repair.
The road to hell is never closed for pothole repair.
Unless it's on the way to the Governor's mansion.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
As long as you don't tell 'em to piss off.
You can't make a silk purse that will repel pickpockets.
To err is human; to forgive is not our policy.
Don't put all your errs in one basket. Date several men.
All work and no play makes Jack a good prospective husband.
Don't run if you can walk unless a husband-hunter is on your tail.
Quote:2. Weird Words: Paroemiological /p@,ri:mi'QlQdZik@l/ (*)
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Relating to the study of proverbs.
The word is from Latin, in which language it appeared in the third
century AD as a borrowing from Greek "paroemia", a proverb. In 1639
John Clarke, the headmaster of Lincoln grammar school, published an
early work on proverbs, from the works of Erasmus. He gave it the
title Paroemiologia anglolatina, Proverbs English and Latin. Many
paroemiological collections have been created since.
As it's comparatively easy to find examples, it's surprising that
the recent revision of the letter P in the online Oxford English
Dictionary doesn't feature "paroemiological". However, it does have
its close relatives, such as "paroemiologist", a student of or an
expert in proverbs and proverb lore, and "paroemiology", the study
itself, as well as "paroemiographer", a collector of or writer on
proverbs, and "paroemia" itself, an adage or proverb. Apart from
this last one, all were coined in the early nineteenth century.
If you prefer, as most scholarly users do these days, you can spell
all these without the first "o".
http://www.worldwidewords.org/rss/newsletter.xml .
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are a multitude of novel subdivisions of the known.
