These adages remind us to avoid traps and seize opportunities.
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Immigrant children from other races may recognize these adages: Work hard.
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These old market adages are in the past, says LPL Financial's Ryan Detrick.
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When you think he can't cram more adages into his delivery, he does.
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While I wouldn't call the answers adages, I was close enough in my assumption.
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It flies in the face of two adages: that girls aren't funny, and lesbians aren't funny.
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He's captured this in a new principle, one of the life adages he's been collecting since the 1980s.
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One of the oldest adages about college basketball is that guard play is the key to tournament success.
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Urban plant-life truly illustrates the truth behind one of the world's oldest adages: Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Monzó weaves new adages from the well-worn, like the caution to be careful what you wish for.
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And speaking of adages, it's the classic insult to injury, because Chris was served at his birthday bash.
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The United States Open is this week, so I guess you can whet your golf whistle with these adages.
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The book is as much personal remembrance as strategic reflection, and is chock-full of aphorisms and enigmatic adages.
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These adages would be long forgotten if they did not speak to deep market truths, so keep them in mind.
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What we can do is stop relying on adages like "don't feed the trolls" without considering a person's specific circumstances.
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His adages about frugality and saving money are woven into American thought, even if they are often at odds with American consumerism.
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These are nice adages, but they don't exactly translate to how exactly a person is supposed to save for a down payment.
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We won't have told you about the worst of it; most of us will have resorted to adages that are now truisms.
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Who only speaks in wise adages, says her character doesn't just evoke old-school scholars, she also utilizes wise words from all cultures.
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Among adages like "failure creates success" is what might well be the motto of the bar: Revenge is a beer best poured cold.
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It is that they distract from the otherwise interesting stories, which often are not the most compelling demonstrations of the adages in question.
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As one of the oldest adages in real estate goes, home value is all about location, location, location — especially when it comes to price.
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I had read every page with anticipation, waiting for Kalanithi to share adages born of introspection and tragedy, I had missed the point all together.
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One of the oldest adages in filmmaking is that it's impossible to make an anti-war film because depicting warfare on screen will always create a certain visceral excitement.
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As we become more comfortable broadcasting various aspects of our lives in the digital age, do adages against speaking ill of the dead or airing dirty laundry still hold?
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His 34-year-old daughter regaled the crowd with childhood stories about Legos and his favorite adages, rounding out the image of the sometimes hard-edged politician that's emerged over the campaign.
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WIMBLEDON, England — In pulling off one of the most emphatic upsets of the first round of Wimbledon, Aliaksandra Sasnovich lived out one of her favorite adages about the egalitarian nature of her sport.
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One of the first adages I heard as a tech reporter is a three-word refrain uttered by anyone who's ever sought to make something with atoms rather than bits: Hardware is hard.
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Dow theory, one of the oldest market adages, holds that for any rally in the Dow Jones industrial average to be sustainable, it must be accompanied by a new high from the Dow transports.
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Rogers believed that variations of the "sticks-and-stones" adages intended to get kids to "shake it off" are stifling; they abandon children to their pain instead of teaching them how to process it.
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" The tone of these maxims is borrowed for the haunting but often deliberately ambiguous adages that Xie fashions herself: "If you stay long enough, / the heat's fingers will touch everything / and the imprint will sting.
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Capricorns run into trouble by believing or saying things like "suck it up" or "work through it"—because even when these adages are true, they aren't effective in situations that require compassion, empathy, or vulnerability.
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And because one of boxing's old adages says, "as the heavyweights go, so goes boxing," it was only natural for Joshua to become the latest among those charged with returning the sport to its past glory.
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Those posters in the hallways with their rictus-grin adages conjure an even more disturbing parallel, one that King will allude to repeatedly in "The Institute": the slogan "Work Will Set You Free," mounted over the gates of Auschwitz.
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I've switched roles four times in the past five years and have found many job-hopping adages to be false — especially considering that workers between the ages of 25 to 34 spend an average of 2.8 years in a job.
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His hope is that all that possession and attacking and shooting will produce even more attacking and shooting, and he's trying to remind his players of one of the oldest of hockey adages: You can't score if you don't shoot.
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This type of journalism only sets back society's evolution and recycles the old adages of a system that actually cannot be fully trusted to take of the people but still pretends that it can and punishes and threaten people who want to evolve this dialogue.
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There are a couple of traps set for us, though; watch out for the seemingly similar clues at C and K. "Piece of cake" and "cup of tea" are IDIOMS and "Variety is the spice of life" and "A watched pot never boils" are ADAGES.
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That's the view expressed by industry adages such as, "If one of us has an accident, we all suffer the consequences," or, "If one of us has a security problem, we all have a security problem," which were very much in focus at NIS.
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While proverbs and adages (cousins of the aphorism, to be sure) often lose their authorship and become orphaned—think about how many times someone has mentioned "an old Irish saying" without knowing anything about its actual provenance—aphorisms stay tethered to their creators, dragging their voices along through history.
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The opening section of the show displays some of Aldo's key publications, already exceptional for their clear typography and beautiful design, such as a Greek grammar, a vital tool for unlocking the language; his Aristotle; and a copy of Erasmus of Rotterdam's "Adages," a compendium of Greek and Roman mottoes that became the first Europewide bestseller.
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The text includes a foreword by eco-blogger and activist Joe Romm, and the book is peppered with anodyne pull-quotes of questionable relevance, for example, "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry," attributed to Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia (1732), a collection of maxims from which Ben Franklin cribbed more than a few of Poor Richard's adages.
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KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - One of sport's old adages is "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" but not for Belgium coach Roberto Martinez, at least not when his team take on England in their final World Cup round-robin match to decide top spot in Group G. Normally a battle between European neighbors for first place at a World Cup would bring out the win-at-all-cost cliches but with Belgium already assured a spot in the last 16 along with England, Martinez was looking ahead for bigger scalps in the knockout round.
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Adages originating in modernity are often given proper names and denominated "laws", in imitation of the nomenclature of physical laws, or "principles". Some adages, such as Murphy's Law, are first formulated informally and given proper names later, while others, such as the Peter Principle, are given proper names when formulated; it might be argued that the latter do not represent true adages, but the two are often difficult to distinguish. Adages that were collected and used by ancient writers inspired Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus to publish his own collection. He revised his moderate volume of 800 adages multiple times until the final edition of Adagia published in 1536 included over 4,000.
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There have been many such collections since, usually in vernacular languages. Adages formulated in popular works of fiction often find their way into popular culture, especially when a subculture devoted to the work or its genre exists, as in the case of novels of science fiction. Many professions and subcultures create their own adages, which are cognizable as a kind of jargon; such adages may find their way into popular use, sometimes being altered in the process. Online communities, such as those that develop in Internet forums or Usenet newsgroups, often generate their own adages.
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It is seen as a collection of adages in Persian literary studies and thus does not convey folkloric notions.
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Adages in Collected Works of Erasmus. Trans. R.A.B Mynors et al. Volumes 31–36. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982–2006.
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Hay, Denys, Letters of James IV, HMSO (1954), 252, 8 Dec. 1533: Mynors, RAB., ed., Collected Works of Erasmus, Adages, vol. 3, Toronto, (1991), 240-243, Adage 2.5.
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See W. Barker, The Adages of Erasmus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 100-103. Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια: Diogenianus, Cent. 4.81. See Andreas Schottus, Paroimiai hellēnikai (Antwerp: Plantin, 1612), p. 215.
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In later episodes, his commercials tend to parody the advertising campaigns of numerous Canadian companies. He also has a tendency to confuse certain phrases and adages, saying things like "Significant Mother" or "Catch-23".
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Other laws are pragmatic and observational, such as the law of unintended consequences. Some humorous parodies of such laws include adages such as Murphy's law and its many variants, and Godwin's Law of Internet conversations.
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The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer noted "the results are predictably mixed. ...This proves the old adages that sometimes newer [read: more modern] isn't always better, and too many cooks do indeed spoil the proverbial sonic stew".
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1 Spartam nactus es, trans. English Erasmus mentioned their time at Siena where after studies in the morning Alexander would play the monochord, recorder or lute in the afternoon.Shire, Helena M., Stewart Style 1513-1542, Tuckwell, (1996), 126-7, quoting Phillips, M. M., The Adages of Erasmus, Cambridge (1964), 305-307.
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Raja is a 10-year-old tourist guide in Mahabalipuram. An elder sculptor has a small rock sculpture tablet on which are engraved adages. Raja enters a discussion with him, wondering if those pearls of wisdom still hold relevance. The sculptor tells him that those sayings are eternal and immortal.
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Robson was the creator and host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, a talent search competition for hip-hop dancers. The program was sponsored by Juice Batteries.Linnett, Richard; Halliday, Jean; Stanley, T.L. (6 October 2003), "Adages". Advertising Age. 74' (40):44 In 2002, Robson was named one of Dance Magazines "25 to Watch".
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His latest books are "Maxims of Wall Street: A Compilation of Financial Adages, Ancient Proverbs, and Worldly Wisdom" (2011), a collection of famous sayings of Wall Street, and "A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street" (Laissez Faire Books, 2013), which applies the basic concepts of the Austrian school of Mises, Hayek, and Schumpeter to the investing and high finance.
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Buff ware Bowl, Nishapur 10th century The Samanid period saw the creation of epigraphic pottery. These pieces were typically earthenware vessels with black slip lettering in Kufic script painted on a base of white slip. These vessels would typically be inscribed with benedictions or adages. Samarqand and Nishapur were both centers of production for this kind of pottery.
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Cumulus humilis indicates a dry day ahead. Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather. It has been a human desire for millennia to make accurate weather predictions. Oral and written history is full of rhymes, anecdotes, and adages meant to guide the uncertain in determining whether the next day will bring fair or foul weather.
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The cabinet has 73 drawers of differing sizes that are filled with papers measuring . The cabinet's three large drawers at the bottom store archive materials. The Cabinet of Folksongs houses 268,815 pages with 4-line to 8-line folksongs, as well as other texts such as riddles and adages. After the author's death, the cabinet was kept in a bank vault.
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It has evoked mixed responses from critics, and been lauded for its visual beauty.Peter Stack, "FILM REVIEW -- `Guimba the Tyrant' Rules Over a Comic Charmer From Africa", San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 1997. Review in the NY Times Slapstick comedy is present throughout the movie, as is comedy through the actions of the griot. The screenplay also contains numerous interesting African adages.
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This is a list of "laws" applied to various disciplines. These are often adages or predictions with the appellation 'Law', although they do not apply in the legal sense, cannot be scientifically tested, or are intended only as rough descriptions (rather than applying in each case). These 'laws' are sometimes called rules of thumb. See List of legal topics for 'laws' in the legal sense.
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He wrote a gloss on the Laberinto de Fortuna by Juan de Mena, which appeared in two editions (Seville, 1499; and Granada, 1505). In 1508, he collected and glossed a diverse body of proverbs and adages, first published in Seville. After his death, it was published as Refranes o proverbios en romance (Salamanca, 1555). He included proverbs from many languages, including Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, French, Italian, Asturian, Aragonese, Latin, and Greek.
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The Peanuts characters have been featured in many books over the years. Some represented chronological reprints of the newspaper strip, while others were thematic collections such as Snoopy's Tennis Book, or collections of inspirational adages such as Happiness Is a Warm Puppy. Some single-story books were produced, such as Snoopy and the Red Baron. In addition, many of the animated television specials and feature films were adapted into book form.
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He is credited with coining the adage, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." With the collaboration of Publio Fausto Andrelini, he formed a paremiography (collection) of Latin proverbs and adages, commonly titled Adagia. Erasmus is also generally credited with originating the phrase "Pandora's box", arising through an error in his translation of Hesiod's Pandora in which he confused pithos (storage jar) with pyxis (box).
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Some, but not all, proponents of scientific politics also espoused social darwinism. Most proponents of scientific politics could be found in France, Spain and Latin America. The rule of Porfirio Díaz in Mexico and Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela was justified by their supporters using the theories of scientific politics. The national motto of Brazil, Order and Progress (Ordem e Progresso), was one of the main adages of scientific politics.
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The word rhei (as in rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream", and is etymologically related to Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.For the etymology see Compare with the Latin adages Omnia mutantur and Tempora mutantur (8 AD) and the Buddhist and Hindu concepts of anicca. On Heraclitus' teachings on Flux, Burnet writes: > Fire burns continuously and without interruption. It is always consuming > fuel and always liberating smoke.
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Alternatively it may signify that the risks are equally great, whatever one does. A third use is in circumstances where a person has gone too far in avoiding one extreme and has tumbled into its opposite. In this context Erasmus quoted another line that had become proverbial, incidit in Scyllam cupiēns vītāre Charybdem (into Scylla he fell, wishing to avoid Charybdis).The Adages of Erasmus (selected by William Barker), University of Toronto 2001, pp.
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Several Murphy's law adages claim that idiot-proof systems cannot be made, for example "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool" and "If you make something idiot-proof, someone will just make a better idiot." Along those lines, Douglas Adams wrote in Mostly Harmless, "a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools".Douglas, Adams. Mostly Harmless. Vol. 5.
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218 (who gives a list of twenty-seven of Novarini's works), each of the two volumes contains explanations of one thousand adages: — Matthaeus, Marcus, Lucas, et Joananes expensi (ibid. 1642-1643, 3 vols. fol.); a series of moral commentaries upon the evangelists and the Acts of the Apostles: — Paulus expensus (Verona, 1644, fol.): — Omnium scientiarum anima, hoc est axiomata physio-theologica (Lyons, 1644, 3 vols. fol.): — Moses expensus (Verona, 1646-1648, 2 vols.
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British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future. These so-called laws are: # When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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In his 2008 book, The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan called the book "a font of investing wisdom" and noted that quotes from the book such as "bulls and bears make money; pigs get slaughtered" are now adages. A March 2005 article in Fortune listed it among "The Smartest Books We Know" about business. In Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager, many investors, including Richard Dennis, quoted the book as a major source of material on stock trading.
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Another accomplishment of his laboratory was elucidating the learning process in the brain. It was determined that after practicing a visual task, a consolidation period of at least six hours was needed before any improvement occurs. The expressions, "cramming before a test will not be of any benefit" and "sleeping on it" are adages that are supported by this research. To further this research, Rubenstein and colleagues wondered whether a certain stage of sleep was responsible for this consolidation.
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More likely as an etymology is sun- ("with") plus kerannumi ("mix") and its related noun, "krasis," "mixture." Erasmus probably coined the modern usage of the Latin word in his Adagia ("Adages"), published in the winter of 1517–1518, to designate the coherence of dissenters in spite of their differences in theological opinions. In a letter to Melanchthon of April 22, 1519, Erasmus specifically adduced the Cretans of Plutarch as an example of his adage "Concord is a mighty rampart".
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The elephant has entered into popular culture through various idiomatic expressions and adages. The phrase "Elephants never forget" refers to the belief that elephants have excellent memories. The variation "Women and elephants never forget an injury" originates from the 1904 book Reginald on Besetting Sins by British writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known as Saki. This adage seems to have a basis in fact, as reported in Scientific American: ::Remarkable recall power, researchers believe, is a big part of how elephants survive.
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Stapp was an inveterate collector of aphorisms and adages, kept a logbook of such, and the practice spread to his entire working group. He published a collection of these in 1992. Stapp is credited with being the popularizer, as well as of the author of the final form of the principle known as Murphy's law, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." Stapp is credited with creating Stapp's Law (or Stapp's Ironic Paradox) during his work on the project.
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Allowing that the god was "not quite as popular as others, because few people freely admit criticism, yet I dare say of the whole crowd of gods celebrated by the poets, none was more useful."Margaret Mann Phillips, The Adages of Erasmus: A Study with Translations, pp.34-5 Giordano Bruno's philosophical treatise The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)Spaccio della bestia trionfante. Or the Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, translated by William Morehead, London 1713 also looks back to Lucian's example.
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Some adages are products of folk wisdom that attempt to summarize a basic truth; these are generally known as "proverbs" or "bywords". An adage that describes a general moral rule is a "maxim". A pithy expression that has not necessarily gained credibility by tradition, but is distinguished by especial depth or excellent style is denominated an "aphorism", while one distinguished by wit or irony is often denominated an "epigram". Through overuse, an adage may become denominated a "cliché", "truism", or "old saw".
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There are still a number of fixed expressions—particularly religious adages such as "seek and ye shall find" ()—and the formal pronoun is sometimes used in translations from a language that adheres to a T–V distinction, but otherwise it appears only when one wants to be excessively formal either from the gravity of the occasion (as in court proceedings and legal correspondence) or out of contempt (in order to ridicule another person's self-importance), and is used in all other cases.
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The Battle of Thermopylae has remained a cultural icon of western civilization ever since it was fought. The battle is revisited in countless adages and works of popular culture, such as in films (e.g., The 300 Spartans (1962) and 300 (2007), based on the events during and close to the time of the battle), in literature, in song, in television programs, and in video games. The battle is also discussed in many articles and books on the theory and practice of warfare.
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Taverner's Bible was largely a revision of the Matthew Bible. Taverner brought strong Greek scholarship to the task, but his Hebrew was not as good as his Greek, so that the revisions of the New Testament are considered better than those of the Old. In 1539, Taverner published Proverbs or Adages by Desiderius Erasmus Gathered out of the Chiliades and Englished, which was reprinted several times (White 1944). Cromwell's fall (and subsequent execution) in 1540 put an end to Taverner's literary output and endangered his position.
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This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, principles, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person. In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson's law. In others, the work or publications of the individual have led to the law being so named – as is the case with Moore's law. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person.
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An adage (; Latin: adagium) is a concise, memorable, and usually philosophical aphorism that communicates an important truth derived from experience, custom, or both, and that many people consider true and credible because of its longeval tradition, i.e. being handed down generation to generation, or memetic replication. An adage sometimes implicates a failure to plan, such as "do not count your chickens before they hatch" and "do not burn your bridges". Adages may be interesting observations, ethical rules, or skeptical comments on life in general.
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Also, in later centuries, with the onset of cities founded on German law (namely, the so- called Magdeburg law), Middle High German urban and legal words filtered into Old Polish. Around the 14th or 15th centuries the aorist and imperfect became obsolete. In the 15th century the dual fell into disuse except for a few fixed expressions (adages, sayings). In relation to most other European languages, though, the differences between Old and Modern Polish are comparatively slight; the Polish language is somewhat conservative relative to other Slavic languages.
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Tumanyan's work is simple, natural and poetically inspired at the same time. It is not by mere chance that dozens of phrases and expressions from Tumanyan's works have become a natural part of people's everyday language, their sayings, adages, and maxims. Tumanyan is usually regarded in Armenian circles as "All-Armenian poet". He earned this title when the Catholicos of Armenia had ordered that Armenian refugees from the west not enter certain areas of his church and house, since he is considered to be "The Catholicos of all Armenians".
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MythBusters is an Australian-American science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on January 23, 2003. It was broadcast internationally by many television networks, including SBS Australia (first-run episodes, with repeat episodes shown on 7mate Australia), and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's original hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, used elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
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The episode names are based on adages and proverbs. Each episode is only loosely connected to the central plot. Many of the jokes in the series rely on satire, established character behavior, Japanese Internet and anime culture such as emoticons (At some points in the series, a character's face is replaced by an emoticon.), or non sequitur comments and actions (especially by Ichijo). The series also contains numerous parodies and references to popular culture, which include Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, The Exorcist, Gundam, Devilman, Super Mario Bros.
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Esszettel had either adages, names of saints, prayers or bible verses written on them, usually in the shortened form of sigils. Occasionally, red paper was used. In Holstein, for example, feverish people were given slips saying „Fieber bleib aus / N.N. ist nicht zu Haus“ (fever stay away, N.N. is not at home). In Protestant regions like Württemberg, East Frisia, Oldenburg or Hamburg, people symbolically consumed their own illness by eating a paper note that had their name, date of birth or some kind of phrase written on it.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Okediji, along with Kunle Filani and others were part of the art movement called Ona, the movement sought to reference Yoruba adages, proverbs, and visual concepts in their art works adjusted to modern Nigerian realities of the twentieth century.Harris p165 During the period, he also edited a short lived magazine called Kurio Africana. The group held their first exhibition in March 1989 at the University of Ibadan. Okedeji went on to obtain a PhD at the University of Wisconsin in 1995.
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In 1995, Valenti published "The Wonderful Wisdom of Oz - A Stupendous Compendium of Adages, Aphorisms and Axioms," a collection of curated quotes derived from the work of Oz author L. Frank Baum. His next book was "The Hannibal Twist" featuring a now-adult Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in their continuing adventures. In 2004, he wrote Mannheim Steamroller's "The Christmas Angel," a novelization of the NBC Christmas special of the same name. 2010 saw the publication of the coming-of-age dark comedy, "Last Night at the Monarch Motel," which was optioned by a film production company.
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"Poor Richard's Proverbs", adages from this almanac, such as "A penny saved is twopence dear" (often misquoted as "A penny saved is a penny earned") and "Fish and visitors stink in three days", remain common quotations in the modern world. Wisdom in folk society meant the ability to provide an apt adage for any occasion, and Franklin's readers became well prepared. He sold about ten thousand copies per year—it became an institution. In 1741, Franklin began publishing The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America, the first such monthly magazine of this type published in America.
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Lutie fully subscribes to the belief that if she follows the adages of Benjamin Franklin by working hard and saving wisely, she will be able to achieve the dream of being financially independent and move from the tenement in which she lives on 116th Street. Franklin is embodied in the text through the character Junto, named after Franklin's secret organization of the same name. It is Junto, through his secret manipulations to possess Lutie sexually, who ultimately leads Lutie to murder Junto's henchman, Boots. Junto represents Petry's deep disillusionment with the cultural myth of the American dream.
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The method of common sense espoused by such philosophers as Thomas Reid and G. E. Moore points out that whenever we investigate anything at all, whenever we start thinking about some subject, we have to make assumptions. When one tries to support one's assumptions with reasons, one must make yet more assumptions. Since it is inevitable that we will make some assumptions, why not assume those things that are most obvious: the matters of common sense that no one ever seriously doubts. "Common sense" here does not mean old adages like "Chicken soup is good for colds" but statements about the background in which our experiences occur.
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There exist Singaporean Hokkien writings, folk adages, and ballads written by early Chinese immigrants to Singapore. Amongst the folk ballads, a few outstanding writings tell of the history and hardship of early Chinese immigrants to Singapore. There are 18 sections in the poetry ballad "行船歌" (Hâng-chûn-koa) ("Songs of traveling on a boat"), which talks about how early immigrants migrated to Singapore. There is another ballad called "砰嘭水中流" (Pin- pong-chúi-tiong-lâu) ("Flow in the midst of water"): An example of a folk love ballad is "雪梅思君" (Soat-m̂-su-kun) ("Snow and plum thinking of a gentlemen"), on the loyalty and chastity of love.
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Sententiae, the nominative plural of the Latin word sententia, are brief moral sayings, such as proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, or apophthegms taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context. Sententia, the nominative singular, also called a "sentence", is a kind of rhetorical proof. Through the invocation of a proverb, quotation, or witty turn of phrase during a presentation or conversation one may be able to gain the assent of the listener, who will hear a kind of non-logical, but agreed- upon "truth" in what you are saying. An example of this is the phrase "age is better with wine" playing off of the adage "wine is better with age".
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The Unialphabet system of classification for bilingual wordbooks, created by the Spanish lexicographer Delfin Carbonell Basset, blends both languages into one single body of facts rather than employing the traditional two-part method. This way, the user can go straight to the word, not minding whether he or she is in the English or Spanish part, making it easier to check the words or expressions in either language. The parallel lexicographical quality control is assured as the foreign counterpart word or idiom can be easily checked out. This method was first used in A Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms by Carbonell Basset and then in Dictionary of Proverbs, Sayings, Maxims, Adages, English and Spanish, with a foreword by John Simpson of the University of Oxford.
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In the immediate postwar period, Polish Communists, who ceded the Eastern Borderlands to the Soviet Union, were universally regarded as traitors, and Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party, was fully aware of it. People who moved from the East to the Recovered Territories talked amongst themselves about their return to Lwów and other eastern locations, and the German return to Silesia, as a result of World War III, in which Western Allies would defeat the Soviets. One of the adages of the postwar period was: "Just one atom bomb, and we will be back in Lwów" ("Jedna bomba atomowa i wrócimy znów do Lwowa"). Polish settlers in former German areas were insecure about their future there until the 1970s (see Warschauer Kniefall).
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Southern Cross Campus College caters for the eldest students of the student body from Years 7 - 13. The school itself is the reincarnation of the old Nga Tapuwae College, however historical aspects of the old school do not exist in the modern Senior School of today. The Senior School, along with the school motto, also aspire themselves with two other adages: "if it is to be, it is up to me" to contemplate the idea of leadership and perseverance; as well as a line from the school’s alma mater, "Honour, Strength, and Pride", which empowers the students to motivate and achieve. Since the amalgamation of the Campus the Senior School has gone through many changes, including the school structure, policies, conduct and student atmosphere.
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His most important work is Notitia utriusque Vasconiae, tum Ibericae, tum Aquitanicae, qua praeter situm regions et alia scitu digna (1638 and 1656), a description of Gascony and Navarre. His collection of 537 Basque proverbs or adages, Atsotizac edo Refravac, included in a volume of his poems Gastroa Nevrthizetan, printed in Paris in 1657 under the French title Les Proverbes Basques Recueillis Par Le Sr D’Oihenart, Plus Les Poesies Basques du mesme Auteur, was supplemented by a second collection, Atizen Venquina. The proverbs were edited by Francisque Xavier Michel (1847), and the supplement by P. Hariston (1892) and by V. Stempf (1894). See Julien Vinson, Essai d'une bibliographie de la langue basque (Paris, 1891); , Arnaud d'Oihenart et sa famille (Paris, 1885).
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Antichamber is a first-person puzzle-platform game created by Australian developer Alexander "Demruth" Bruce. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within impossible objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player to different locations depending on which way they face, and structures that seem otherwise impossible within normal three-dimensional space. The game includes elements of psychological exploration through brief messages of advice to help the player figure out solutions to the puzzles as well as adages for real life. The game was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows on January 31, 2013, a version sold with the Humble Indie Bundle 11 in February 2014 added support for Linux and OS X.
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Contra vim mortis non crescit herba in hortis (or Contra vim mortis non crescit salvia in hortis, Latin meaning "No herb grows in the gardens against the power of death", or "No sage grows in the gardens against the power of death", respectively, is a phrase that appears in medieval literature. The broader meaning of the maxim is, "Although you search any garden, you won't find a medical remedy against the lethal power of death". The second wording that uses salvia in place of herba is a wordplay with the name of "salvia" (sage), which literally means healer or healthmaker. Like many adages and maxims handed on from the Latin cultural tradition, this line is a hexameter, the rhythmical verse typical of the great epic poetry in both Greek and Latin literature.
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" Adages use the almanac as a reference. According to Jean- François de La Harpe is "the only book to read to get rich is the Royal Almanac Ref 21, Jean-Joseph Regnault-Warin uses the phrase" having the memory of a Royal Almanac Ref 22 " or the Memoirs of the Academy of hawkers Ref 23 explains that "it is enough to read the Almanac for education." In the eyes of justice, the book can be used as a basis for comparison: during a police investigation in 1824 Ref 24, a defendant defends himself by explaining that the volume of documents he was accused of having carried "could be equal to that of a royal Almanac almanac or a related trade." Whether to have a certain level of resources to purchase this item, the customer extended beyond the financial and political world.
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Oba Ewuare, on ascension to the throne, appointed a new tier of bureaucrats and Town Chiefs to undermine the control of the hereditary Palace Chiefs and create a strongly centralised system to administer his Empire. Consequently, Ewuare created the Okao title (traditional head) and installed the first Okao in Benin land at Unuame to protect his Empire and restrict the Ovia/Osse river access at Unuame. Subsequently, Ikao (plural of Okao) were established in other Ovia/Osse river- bounded communities such as Ogbese, Iyera, Ugbihiehie, Ite, Ikoro and Gele- Gele, among others, who administered the affairs of their community on behalf of the Oba and prevented the Empire from invasions through the Ovia River. Elders recalled how passionate Ewuare was about Unuame, among other villages, as he occasionally refers to it in some of his famous adages.
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29 Louis Hymans, Historian of Brussels, also notes that this nobility was transmissible through women. Adages, told by historians, testify that: « the women, in the lignages, ennobled their husbands : Feminœ quia nobiles, etiam maritos nuptiis nobiles reddunt. They brought nobility in dowry : In dotem familiam ac nobilitatem afferunt »Louis Hymans, « Bruxelles à travers les âges », Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe et Cie, editors, 1882, Volume I, Chapter III, page 130. Nicolas Joseph Stevens concluded that : « even though under the Austrian regime, which in terms of prerogatives devolving to the nobility, we know the essentially formalistic spirit, the quality of Noble was denied to members of the Seven Houses, init is not any less true that they had, by the seniority of their existence and by their services rendered to the City, rights to a certain illustrious standing, which distinguished them from the rest of the bourgeoisie »Nicolas Joseph Stevens, « Recueil généalogique de la famille de Cock », « Des sept lignages ou familles patriciennes de Bruxelles », Printed by P. Parent, Brussels, 1855, pages 147 to 157, and mainly page 157.
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