| Der Mensch ist, was
er ißt. (You are what you eat.)
- German proverb
Viel Welt für wenig Geld. (A lot of the world
for little money)
- Popular expression, Germany
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
- English proverb
We live in a sort of human advent calendar -- we never know
who will be coming through the door.
- Sue Haigh, Go
Slow England
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your
back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall
softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold
you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Swedish proverb
We are going to prove that climate change action and economic
prosperity are not contradictions, but mutually dependent.
- Sigmar Gabriel
Truth prevails.
- Motto of the Czech
Republic
We're passionate about history in Ireland,
particularly our own, and there's even a slight competitiveness
among people to know the most.
- Martin
Hughes
You'll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Irish proverb
In Paris
they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did
succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Mark Twain
Paris
is a movable feast.
- Ernest Hemingway
Like rugby, lawn tennis and alpine skiing, town and country
planning seems to be one of those sports that the British invented,
but left to foreigners to do really well.
- Ben Tuxworth, Spaced
out thinking
In 1837, Frederick
Froebel started the first school for four and five year
olds in Germany.
He called it 'kindergarten,' or a children's garden, and made
it into a paradisiacal sanctuary where teachers read kids poetry
and stories, led them in singing songs, and oversaw them as
they gardened and played outdoors. Government authorities later
shut the place down, citing the 'dangerous freedom' of the experiment.
- Rob Brezsny
When St. Augustine arrived in Milan, he observed that the Church
did not fast on Saturday as did the Church at Rome. He consulted
St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who replied: 'When I am at Rome,
I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the
custom of the Church where you are.' The comment was changed
to 'When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done' by
Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. Eventually it became
'When in Rome, do as the Romans do.'
- Trivia
Library
What have the Romans ever done for us?
- Monty Python
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