|
|
When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be
momentarily comforting.
Topic: Failure
Source: UNIT Procedures Manual, Zen Division.
|
A niche in the temple of Fame.
Topic: Fame
Source: origin is owed to establishment of Pantheon (1791) as a receptacle for distinguished men
|
Your fame shall (spite of proverbs) make it plain
To write in water's not to write in vain.
Topic: Fame
Source: Art of Painting in Water Colours, in preface to Sir William Sanderson
|
The February born will find
Sincerity and peace of mind;
Freedom from passion and from care,
If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
Topic: February
Source: February, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Era of good feeling.
Topic: Feeling
Source: title of an article in the Boston "Centinel"
|
The service was of great array,
That they were served with that day.
Thus they ate, and made them glad,
With such service as they had--
When they had dined, as I you say,
Lordis and ladies yede to play;
Some to tables and some to chess,
With other games more and less.
Topic: Festivities
Source: The Life of Ipomydon--Harleian Library, (British Museum), Manuscript No. 2,252
|
One that is neither flesh not fish.
Topic: Fish
Source: Rede Me and be Not Wrothe (I, 3)
|
But death is sure to kill all he can get
And all is fish with him that comes to net.
Topic: Fish
Source: Witts Recreations (ep. 644)
|
Never a fishermen need there be
If fishes could hear as well as see.
Topic: Fishermen
Source: Notes and Queries (ser. IV, ii, 94)
|
The man that weds for greedy wealth,
He goes a fishing fair,
But often times he gets a frog,
Or very little share.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Pepysian Garland (318)
|
A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light,
And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."
Topic: Fleas
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
|
A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt,
A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
Topic: Foppery
Source: Recipe "To Make a Modern Fop"
|
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
Topic: Freedom
Source: Republican Rallying Cry
|
A man is either free or he is not.
Topic: Freedom
Source: Republican Rallying Cry
|
I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.
Topic: God
Source: The Unbeliever's Creed--Connoisseur No. IX
|
Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee,
Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.
Topic: Gods
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
|
I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown
I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.
Topic: Gods
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
|
Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be
In commune held by Pallas and by thee?
Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine
In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.
Topic: Gods
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
|
Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine:
A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
Topic: Gods
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
|
To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]
Topic: Goodness
Source: on the town hall of Zittau, Saxony
|
Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna
charta.]
Topic: Government
Source: said by a Russian noble to Count Munster on the assassination of Paul I, emperor of Russia
|
Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.
Topic: Government
Source: Puritan's Mistake
|
A government of laws, and not of men.
Topic: Government
Source: Puritan's Mistake
|
The grave's the market place.
Topic: Grave
Source: Death and the Lady, a ballad in Dixon's "Ballads", the Percy Society
|
Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
[Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?]
Topic: Health
Source: Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, a medical poem, original and translation published by Sir Alexander
|
Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.
Topic: Heart
Source: Old Meg of Herefordshire
|
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen
|
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Topic: Ideas
Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
|
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one
idea.
Topic: Ideas
Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
|
. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
Topic: Imagination
Source: Letter by F.A. to L.B., reproduced in "Miscell. Antiq. Anglic"
|
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Topic: Imagination
Source: Letter by F.A. to L.B., reproduced in "Miscell. Antiq. Anglic"
|
Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole,
The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
Topic: Influence
Source: on a slab in Bishop Joceline's crypt in Glasgow cathedral
|
When law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow;
And when the leaves in Summer-time their colour dare not show;
Then will I change the colour too, I wear in my caubeen;
But till that day, plaze God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.
Topic: Ireland
Source: Wearin' o' the Green (Shan-Van-Voght)
|
She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; this stone,
Emblem of innocence is known.
Topic: Jewels
Source: April, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Wear a Sardonyx or for thee
No conjugal felicity.
The August-born without this stone
'Tis said must live unloved and lone.
Topic: Jewels
Source: August, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on you hand a Turquoise blue,
Success will bless whate'er you do.
Topic: Jewels
Source: December, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
By her who in this month is born,
No gems save Garnets should be worn;
They will insure her constancy,
True friendship and fidelity.
Topic: Jewels
Source: January, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
The glowing Ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born,
Then will they be exempt and free
From love's doubt and anxiety.
Topic: Jewels
Source: July, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Who comes with Summer to this earth
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring of Agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth, and long life command.
Topic: Jewels
Source: June, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Who in this world of ours their eyes
In March first open shall be wise;
In days of peril firm and brave,
And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.
Topic: Jewels
Source: March, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Who first beholds the light of day
In Spring's sweet flowery month of May
And wears an Emerald all her life,
Shall be a loved and happy wife.
Topic: Jewels
Source: May, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Who first comes to this world below
With drear November's fog and snow
Should prize the Topaz' amber hue--
Emblem of friends and lovers true.
Topic: Jewels
Source: November, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
October's child is born for woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay on Opal on her breast,
And hope will lull those woes to rest.
Topic: Jewels
Source: October, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
A maiden born when Autumn leaves
Are rustling in September's breeze,
A Sapphire on her brow should bind,
'Twill cure diseases of the mind.
Topic: Jewels
Source: September, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
The glowing Ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born,
Then will they be exempt and free
From love's doubt and anxiety.
Topic: July
Source: July, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
Who comes with Summer to this earth
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring of Agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth, and long life command.
Topic: June
Source: June, in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371
|
There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
|
Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.
Topic: Labor
Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
|
He who labours, prays.
[Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]
Topic: Labor
Source: in a sermon to the people of Queenhith, advertised in the "Daily Courant", Oct. 6, 1709
|
Unless by the lawful judgment of their peers.
[Lat., Nisi per legale judicum parum suorum.]
Topic: Law
Source: Magna Charta--Privilege of Barons of Parliament
|
