Word: proverbes
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...this may not mean much to the outside world, but to HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES it just goes to show the truth of the old proverb, PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH...
...mothers' proverb, referring to boys' chores, says that "Two boys are only half a boy." This saying applies also to most literary collaborations, even to those of such individually able collaborators as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...
...Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table of one who is greater than thou, take what he may offer thee as it is set before thee. Fix thy gaze at what is before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force...
...well informed last week as a group of orphan puppies, came tail-wagging to the Prime Minister, tendered him a birthday party. In high good humor, hawk-faced Neville Chamberlain, who at close range can be a very clubable man, shyly compared himself to a camel, citing a proverb which he said he thinks is Chinese: "One decrepit camel still bears the burden of many asses...
...China is a dish of macaroni: too long to swallow, and too tough to bite off," said Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, citing a current Oriental proverb as he spoke on his recent observations in the Far East before a packed house at the Geographical Institute yesterday afternoon...