Wentworth Dillon
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-d-/aphorism-2713

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(1633—1685), Irish poet, in Translation of Horace's Ars Poetica, 1.202
Old men are only walking hospitals.

Every Jack has his Jill
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/proverbs/E_p/Every-Jack-has-his-Jill

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Всякому Джеку суждена его Джил.
Ср. Всякая невеста для своего жениха родится. На всякий товар свой покупатель есть. Ко всякой дыре есть затычка.

Telegram-канал: Учим Английский (https://t.me/learn_eng_here)

Robert X. Cringely, Computerworld
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-cc-/aphorism-3095

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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/proverbs/L_p/Life-is-not-all-cakes-and-ale--beer-and-skittles-

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Жизнь не все пирожки да эль (пиво да кегли) (т. е. не все забавы да развлечения).
Ср. Жизнь прожить — не поле перейти (не лапти сплесть).

То throw straws against the wind
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/proverbs/T_p/To-throw-straws-against-the-wind

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Кидать солому против ветра.
Ср. Веером туман разгонять.

Jim Ferree
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-f-/aphorism-3081

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(1931--)
U.S. golfer
There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators.

Dorothy Parker
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-p-/aphorism-4796

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(1893—1967), Paris Review (Summer, 1956)
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best thing you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

David Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down, 1965
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-3850

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around.

David Lee Roth
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-l-/aphorism-2586

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(1954--)
U.S. singer
Don't stick your tongue out unless you intend to use it.

Ovid
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-o-/aphorism-3603

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(43 B.C.--18 A.D.), Roman poet
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/eng/sayings_expressions/quotations-c-/aphorism-3796

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1066 And All That
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

under age
https://www.sky-net-eye.com/rus/english/idioms/american/i_u/8566-under-age