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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLV - Tongue teasing epigrams A stitch in time can save an arranged marriage and stave off a family feud, not to mention everlasting vendettas. Still waters run deep in sleep. When the hens begin to crow, the cocks don’t grow. A whipped dog bites not the whip that flails it, but the hand that feeds it just for the nonce. When in Rome do as Nero did, but watch out for Brutus’s unkindest cut of all. Empty vessels often return from the Spice Isles laden with gold, cinnamon and measles. If you want to paint the town red, first make certain you have loads and loads of red paint. If the pot keeps calling the kettle « Black », well, just read the Charter of Human Rights to it; contrariwise « electrify » both. If it rains cats and dogs, just eat ‘em and save enough money for a trip to the Riviera to watch cats and dogs parading Stars in diamond-studded leashes. Want not, beg not, but choose the charities you give to. Beggars are not choosers but prostitutes are ! ADULTery - What if the spouses were teenagers or even children ! In which case, why not: « TEENAGery » or « CHILDery » ? If you think in terms of « adulterate », then why not: « ADULTERATERY » ?? Cows that think that the other shore is always greener should wear glasses. Pies in the sky are reserved for astronauts and Mr. Spock’s fleet crew. An apple a day can cost more than a doctor some day the way the Arctic is already melting. Forewarned is fore-damned. When lightning strikes you, it matters little whether you « hear » thunder near or far away. A woman who tango(e)s without a partner looks like a jigsaw-puzzle up-side-down. Keep punching and you’ll end up with tinnitus ringing in your later (y)ears. You don’t need a lawyer to tell the « whole » and « nothing » but the TRUTH in a criminal court, but then the Jailor might not be particularly fussy about the truth; He/She only wants to know if you had broken the Law. A lawyer is a lire Salvaged from the mire Trample not its attire Subject of much satire Paragon of righteous fire In duty-bound entire Oh! What a lordly Sire ! Since, according to the astro-physicist Aurélien Barrau, It’s not the Earth’s gravity which makes the Moon revolve round us - for it progresses like the Earth in a straight-curved line round the Sun - should not the Chinese take a second look at the Lunar Calendar on which the Yi Jing’s « temps principle » is based ??? Parallel lives never greet ! (c) T. Wignesan - Paris, June 23, 2019
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