Oneliners.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)
Aussie saying.
The Pot calling the kettle black = Someone said something adverse about you and youreply with this slang phrase (which says that they are the same or worse then their adverse statement)Archaic word
knuff = loutBrewer's Phrase & Fable
All-hallown Summer = The second summer, or the summerly time which sets in about All-Hallows-tide. Called by the French, L'Difficult words
autogamy - n. self-fertilization. autogamic, autogamous, a.Limerick
The lovers of young Mrs. Ray Used her front door all during the day. But a perverted old doctor Sewed her up as he cocked her, And now they come in the back way.Knowledge
Beethoven, Ludwig vonone of the greatest musical composers, born in Bonn, of Dutch extraction; the author of symphonies and sonatas that are known over all the world; showed early a most precocious genius for music, commenced his education at five as a musician; trained at first by a companion named Pfeiffer, to whom he confessed he owed more than all his teachers; trained at length under the tuition of the most illustrious of his predecessors, Bach and Händel; revealed the most wonderful musical talent; quitted Bonn and settled in Vienna; attracted the attention of Mozart; at the age of 40 was attacked with deafness that became total and lasted for life; continued to compose all the same, to the admiration of thousands; during his last days was a prey to melancholy; during a thunderstorm he died. Goethe pronounced him at his best "an utterly untamed character, not indeed wrong in finding the world detestable, though his finding it so did not," he added, "make it more enjoyable to himself or to others" (1770-1827).Quote
Death and Dying by Bertrand Russell - Most people would rather die than think: many do.Tongue twister
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,Unusual word
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
was he?
lychnobite = one who works at night and sleeps in the day