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  • a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on — The speed with which falsehood travels was a classical commonplace; e.g. VIRGIL Aeneid iv. 174 Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius alium, Rumour, than whom no other evil thing is faster. This whole passage was imitated by Shakespeare in the… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • The Durham Proverbs — is a collection of 46 Mediæval proverbs from various sources. They were written down as a collection, in the eleventh century, on some pages (pages 43 verso to 45 verso, between a hymnal and a collection of canticles) of a manuscript that were… …   Wikipedia

  • it is too late to shut the stable-door after the horse has bolted — In early use the proverb referred to horse stealing; has bolted is a modern substitution for the traditional is stolen. Cf. medieval Fr. a tart ferme on l’estable, quant li chevaux est perduz, the stable is shut too late, when the horse is lost.… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • The Shining (film) — The Shining Theatrical release poster Directed by Stanley Kubrick Produced by Stanle …   Wikipedia

  • Proverb (Reich) — Proverb is a musical composition by Steve Reich for three sopranos, two tenors, two vibraphones, and two electric organs. It is set to a text by Ludwig Wittgenstein. [Grove, Works ] It was written in 1995 and was originally intended for The Proms …   Wikipedia

  • The Young Man and the Swallow — (which also has the Victorian title of The spendthrift and the swallow ) is one of Aesop s Fables and is numbered 169 in the Perry Index. It is associated with the ancient proverb One swallow doesn t make a summer . The Fable A woodcut from the… …   Wikipedia

  • The Art of War — (zh cp|c=|p=Sūn Zǐ Bīng Fǎ) is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on… …   Wikipedia

  • The Perishers — was a British comic strip about a group of urban children and a dog. It began in the Daily Mirror in 1958 and was written for most of its life by Maurice Dodd (October 25, 1922 December 31, 2005). It was drawn by Dennis Collins until his… …   Wikipedia

  • The City Nightcap — The City Nightcap, or Crede Quod Habes, et Habes is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Robert Davenport. [A. H. Bullen, ed., The Works of Robert Davenport , Old English Plays, News Series, London, 1890; reprinted New York,… …   Wikipedia

  • The milkmaid and her pail — is a folktale of Aarne Thompson Uther type 1430 about interrupted daydreams of wealth and fame.[1] Ancient tales of this type exist in the East but Western variants are not found before the Middle Ages. It was only in the 19th century that the… …   Wikipedia

  • The Queen of Spades (opera) — The Queen of Spades ( ru. Пиковая дама, Pikovaya dama ) is an opera, Opus 68, in 3 acts, 7 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer s brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name by the poet …   Wikipedia

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