Basque, Spanish, English and Latin proverbes - Searchable database, with correspondences among the different languages. Interface in those 4 languages. Over 20,000 proverbes. A compilation by Gotzon Garate, now in Internet thanks to BBK and Ametzagaiña.
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1st International Symposium on Basque Cultural Studies - Organised by the Institute of Basque Studies (IBS) which will be held from June 29 to July 2, 2000 and hosted by the Department of Language Studies at London Guildhall University.
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Society and Culture Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Society and Culture
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Society and Culture
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My other wife is beautiful. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Society and Culture
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Society and Culture "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Society and Culture
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Society and Culture
