Any port in a storm - assistance or refuge in s predicament especially an unpalatable one Much like having an albatross tied around one's neck, this phrase comes from the nautical world. It is one I know well but I don't think I hear all that often. For some reason I think it heard more in old movies or TV series from my childhood rather than a phrase that the family used with any regularity.
Following yesterday's phrase about not being a pill, Mom would often use the phrase More excuses than Carter's little liver pills. I think there were a few more words you could substitute form excuses like problems or stories and the phrase seemed to lend itself to disbelief. The little liver pills were patented in the 1860's and were still going strong in my Mother's childhood in the late 1920's and early 30's. She has an old advertisement in the bathroom of two babies on a chamber pot, one happy for using the little pills, another miserable (I'm guessing constipated) because he didn't use the little liver pills. Search for Carter's Little Liver pills images - some really interesting advertising from last century. Happy Thursday Digital Neighbors and the beginning of Autumn! Have a great day ADD Irregulars, Friends & Refugees, Phamily & Dawn Patrol, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Supporters, Members, Conversants, Lurkers, Visitors and Vagabonds to Locals! While not a barn (there will be plenty coming in the season), how about a curious kitty to start our Autumn tour!
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
