Today's Word – PROPITIOUS
To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
At times it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles–wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing, in some casess.
Andre Gide, Pretexts
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald,The Marquess of Lossie, 1877 Colton
Long life is the right mode for some people and not for others--just as some people write books in ten volumes and others epigrams in two lines--and the two; works may be of exactly equal value.
Frederick Goodyear, Letters and Remains
To say that a man is thirty, fifty, or seventy tells you very little more about him than if you were only told his name. The name, however, might convey nothing to you, whereas the age would induce you from force of habit to make an estimate of him which might prove entirely false.
Arthur Ponosonby, Casual Observations 1753
pro·pi·tious adjective 1.
Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious. See Synonym favorable.
2. Kindly; gracious. [Middle English propicius, from Old French propicieux,
from Latin propitius.]
I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious
events at Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than he had known in his life
before.
Middlemarch.
By George Eliot
Definition from American Heritage Dictionary
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A FEW SMILES COLLECTION OF SOME LEGISLATIVE OOPS
OF THE TONGUE Submitted from: HUMOR NET "ECLIPSE OF THE
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The Executive to the Captain: Two men were walking home after a Halloween party
and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle
of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty
shadows. Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping
away at one of the headstones. Don't Come back Sex Education. A fourth grader comes home from school and said to her mother, Mom, guess what? We learned how to make babies today. 'The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. 'That's interesting,' she said. 'How do you make babies?' 'It's simple,' replied the girl, 'You just change -y to -i and you add -es.' TRUE FACT ... Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day. |
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