Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.


Periander of Corinth

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Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to fit it for toil when resumed.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succour meets with ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Live according to your income.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Check disease in its approach.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks...
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.
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You are too sarcastic.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
May everything he treads upon become a rose!
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Nothing is impossible to industry.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Success brings many to ruin.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
The pot boils badly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Each man has his fancy.
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Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive...
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Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.]
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCER
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
He's got a nose for the net, no pun intended on that nose of his.
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had his nose open.
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St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth ...
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His nose caught my tail. That's the beauty of it.
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Let everyone pick his own nose.
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Some people think it's a joke,
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It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
UNKNOWN
Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
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He was wailing and snot was just pouring out of his nose.
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He drove on Hecht, took out his knee, went after his head. It's a joke, an absolute joke. Watch the ...
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I think some of the consensus numbers are a little stale some of the estimates that go into that don...
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He just had a bump on his nose.
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Jack throws his hands up. “Okay, is this some kind of a joke? Seriously, you are being the voice o...
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There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose.
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You hook the whole thing through the lower jaw and up through the nose, through the eye and fish on ...
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I thought the university came through very well, ... I think the comedy is a joke on Tommy and not a...
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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I have never been visited by the fear that he's stale, ... Through him, I get to bring to light a lo...
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Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speak...
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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Many a man's nose was broken by his mouth.
IRISH PROVERB
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
GEORGE HERBERT
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for f...
DARRELL ROYA
never dream of letting their looks get stale.
JENNIFER ANISTON
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
THOMAS FULLER
I think there was a pretty good recognition that the consensus number was too high and that some of ...
JOE MOORE
He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.
REV. R. H. BARHAM
This fellow did not see further than his own nose.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Life is not a joke, but majority have made to look like a joke and amidst them some knowingly and ma...
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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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At this level, guys really respect a guy who makes plays and kind of shows his leadership through hi...
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You fucking drunken waste god wiped snot out of his nose and that was you
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He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
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It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette ...
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He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
WILLIAM COWPER
He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM
We obviously fouled his forearm with our nose, and that's unfortunate.
LEE BENNETT
stale rhetoric. Divisive rhetoric. Absurd.
GAVIN NEWSOM
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
CARLO COLLODI
At the Saleve, the stove is drawing badly. This and the stale tobacco, rough wine and a perpetual ac...
JACQUES YONNET
Practice is everything
This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
PERIANDER
Freedom is a clear conscience.
PERIANDER
Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
PERIANDER
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
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The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
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Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose
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Hines is a blue-collar kind of guy. He sticks his nose in there and isn't afraid.
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Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet,...
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Look at his face! He's serious about this! This ain't no joke.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose
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They had some tragedies up in that area, right up under your nose.
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Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to fit it for toil when resumed.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
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He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succour meets with ruin.
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He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.
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Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart.
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Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
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Live according to your income.
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His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.
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Check disease in its approach.
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The success of the wicked tempts many to sin.
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It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."
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Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything, doing nothing.
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Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
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However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.
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He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks...
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The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.
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You are too sarcastic.
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May everything he treads upon become a rose!
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Nothing is impossible to industry.
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Success brings many to ruin.
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The pot boils badly.
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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
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Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
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Each man has his fancy.
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Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive...
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Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
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To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
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The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.
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The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.]
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Practice is everything
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity
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Freedom is a clear conscience.
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MARY OF TECK
Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangel...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Ca...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they b...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Foun...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Fou...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA
Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend t...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA