Word: proverbes
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...demanding a constitutional democracy from Korea's last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans. He had also learned the wisdom of the Korean proverb, "When whales fight, shrimp are eaten...
...script bounces so fast from cliche to cliche that you have barely enough time to recover from one proverb before bang comes the next. "Baby," says agent Arthur Landau to his fledgling actress Jean as he extracts one dollar from her first day's pay, "one day you're going to resent that ten per cent." And sure enough, about one hour later, she does...
...Chinese proverb...
...rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth and there is no truth.' It is important to know that truth carried too far becomes destructive." How many businessmen talk like that...
...murmur ominously, "beware of Greeks bearing gift horses in the mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers. (Answers are on page...