contradictory proverbs
Look before you leap. //// He who hesitates is lost.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. //// Out of sight, out of mind.
You’re never too old to learn. ////You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
A word to the wise is sufficient. ////Talk is cheap.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.////Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Seek and ye shall find. ////Curiosity killed the cat.
everything is amazing & nothing happens
ecdemolagnia
n. lustfulness when one is away from home
"The very worst line in Latin poetry’ was, according to Professor Tyrrell, achieved by Statius when he apostrophised the condition of childlessness as ‘to be avoided by every effort’ (Orbitas omni fugienda nisu)."
―– “A Study in Superlatives,” in Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Literary Recreations, 1918
―– “A Study in Superlatives,” in Sir Edward Tyas Cook, Literary Recreations, 1918