Forum
About Us
Proverbs
Quotations
Bookstore
Games
Proverbium
Paremia
News
Contact
|
Thursday, 2 July 2009
 Subscribe Unsubscribe Send the proverb of the day to a friend Daily Quote : If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language. --Get Details ( Davies, Robertson | Books - Reading ) A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs 
|
|
| ||||||||||||
Copyright © 1995-2006 De Proverbio. All rights reserved.
The banner illustration is a fragment of Pieter Bruegel's painting "The Netherlandish Proverbs", 1559
The banner illustration is a fragment of Pieter Bruegel's painting "The Netherlandish Proverbs", 1559