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Symposion
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold
its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.
Every dog has a stitch in time. Two heads? You've been sold
one good turn. One good turn deserves a bird in the hand.

A bird in the hand is better than no bread.
To have your cake is to pay Paul.
Make hay while you can still hit the nail on the head.
For want of a nail the sky might fall.

People in glass houses can't see the wood
for the new broom. Rome wasn't built between two stools.
Empty vessels wait for no man.

A hair of the dog is a friend indeed.
There's no fool like the fool
who's shot his bolt. There's no smoke after the horse is gone.

Auden, The Shield of Achilles
Babbage, From a Letter to Tennyson
Edson, Selected Prose Poems
Eliot, Preludes
Meredith, The Jain Bird Hospital in Dehli
Muldoon, Cauliflower
Rich, The Burning of Paper instead of Children
Strand, Eating Poetry
Szymborska, Slapstick
Szymborska, Warning

Forks in the Road:

My Circus Experience

My Resume

A Guide to Culture on the Web

Links to Friends