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A proverb [or proverbial phrase] is usually defined, an instructive sentence, or common and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than expressed, famous for its peculiarity or elegance, and therefore adopted by the learned as well as the vulgar, by which it is distinguished from counterfeits which want such authority
time, devourer of all things: Also "time, that devours all things", literally: "time, gluttonous of things", edax: adjectival form of the verb edo to eat. From Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15, 234-236. tempus fugit: Time flees. Time flies. From Virgil's Georgics (Book III, line 284), where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus. A common sundial motto.
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Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
From the Vulgate, Proverbs 6:6. The full quotation translates as "Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!" [2] vade mecum: go with me: A vade-mecum or vademecum is an item one carries around, especially a handbook. vade retro Satana: go back, Satan: An exhortation to Satan to be gone, often a Roman Catholic response to ...
Beyond her famous quote, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,” Angelou's words offer incredible insight into the human condition.
famous quote from The Pumpkinification of Claudius, ascribed to Seneca the Younger. [2] It implies that one situation helps the other. manus multae cor unum: many hands, one heart: Motto of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. manus nigra: black hand: marcet sine adversario virtus: valor becomes feeble without an opponent: Seneca the Younger, De ...
is a quote that Cicero ascribes to Bias of Priene: omnia mutantur, nihil interit: everything changes, nothing perishes: Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV, line 165: omnia omnibus: all things to all men: 1 Corinthians 9:22 si omnia ficta: if all (the words of poets) is fiction: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book XIII, lines 733–4: "si non ...