His first collection of poems, Vignettes in Rhyme (1873), was followed by Proverbs in Porcelain (1877).
To which we have a corollary: by proverbs we enliven copy.
Johnson is fueled by Proverbs 29.18 -- "People without vision perish" -- but he surely knows that words alone do not turn around a team.
As elucidated by Proverbs, Chapter 3, it's a trust thing, and Mr. Landry has been trusting God, with no letdowns, for 27 years.
Many of these items have something to do with golf: tee-shaped cuff links, dimpled paperweights, and soft-focus framed photographs of sun-dappled fairways accompanied by proverbs like "A man's grip on his club is like his grip on life" or "Golf is a game that can't be won, only played".
Ethics is represented in this itinerary by Proverbs, physics by Ecclesiastics, the science of contemplation (theorics, epoptics or enoptics) by the Song).
For example, pregnant women were required to continue working until they delivered, as captured by the proverb quoted by many participants 'work is good for the pregnant woman, as it eases the pain for the labouring woman' (IV06 postnatal woman).
Gates meets people trying to live by the proverb "better dead than ordinary" in the face of financial instability.
The oceans team at The Nature Conservancy lives by this proverb as well and for decades has worked closely in and with coastal and fishing communities around the globe.
From very early on, my rap and spoken-word texts were inspired by this culture: by its proverbs rich in meaning and magic, these aphorisms responsible for the fact that the Fula do not have a country, but a culture that adapts to all environments and that stays almost intact across time and space.
