Good wine makes good…
Good wine makes good blood. [Good wine engenders good blood.] More »
Good wine makes good blood. [Good wine engenders good blood.] More »
The good die young. [(Those) Whom the gods love die young.] / The fairest flowers soonest fade. [God takes soonest those he loveth best.] / Beautiful flowers are soon picked. More »
A child is a good mirror of his parents. More »
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James (Arthur) Baldwin (1924 – 87) More »
It’s dog-eat-dog. [Dog-eat-dog.] / (⇔)Dog does not eat dog. More »
“A classic”: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910): Speech, quoting Professor Caleb Winchester, 20 Nov 1900, Nineteenth Century Club, NYC More »
Beggars mounted run their horse to death. [Set a beggar on horseback and he’ll ride to the devil.] – York — William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Henry VI. Part III, Act I, Scene IV More »
Great gains are not achieved except by great risks. / Nothing venture, nothing have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained. / Nothing ventured, nothing won.] More »
Down corn, down horn. [Corn and horn go together.] More »
Fortune favors the bold. [Fortune favors the brave.] More »