Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb
If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird. – Yiddish Proverb
Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb
If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird. – Yiddish Proverb
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,