Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Love, Anonymous


Love is the delightful interval between meeting and discovering that looks like .

- Anonymous

From (Laura) Haddock to haddock.

Love, John Barrymore


Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

- John Barrymore (1882-1942)


Saturday, March 1, 2014

Bird, Bosnian Proverb


Latin: Bolje vrabac u ruci, nego golub na grani.
Cyrillic: Боље врабац у руци, него голуб на грани.
Translation: A sparrow in the hand is better than a pigeon on the branch.

- Bosnian Proverb; Kovačević (1991). Srpsko-engleski rečnik idioma, izraza i izreka. Filip Višnjić. p. 48.

Proverbs from all Bosnian speaking parts of the world.


English equivalent

¶ A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bosnian_proverbs