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    Between the devil and the deep sea : To choose between two equally bad alternatives in a serious dilemma. Where there's a will there's a way: When a person really wants to do something, he will find a way of doing it. A burnt child dreads fire:A bad experience or a horrifying incident may scar one's attitude or thinking for a lifetime. First come, first served:The first in line will be attended to first. A friend in need is a friend indeed: A friend who helps when one is in trouble is a real friend. Discretion is the better part of valor: If you say discretion is the better part of valor, you mean that avoiding a dangerous or unpleasant situation is sometimes the most sensible thing to do. A hungry man is an angry man: A person who does not get what he wants or needs is a frustrated person and will be easily provoked to rage. Empty vessels make the most noise: Those people who have a little knowledge usually talk the most and make the greatest fuss. A man is as old as he feels: A person's age is immaterial - it is only when he thinks and feels that he is ageing that he actually becomes old. Great talkers are little doers: Those people who talk a lot and are always teaching others usually do not do much work. An idle brain is the devil's workshop: One who has nothing to do will be tempted to do many mischievous acts. An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit: It is better to be careful and discrete than to be clever. Faint heart never won fair lady: To succeed in life one must have the courage to pursue what he wants. A penny saved is a penny gained: By being thrifty one will be able to save up. A rolling stone gathers no moss: A person who never settles in one place or who often changes his job will not succeed in life ; one who is always changing his mind will never get anything done. As you sow, so you shall reap: One will either enjoy or suffer the consequences of his earlier actions or inactions. Barking dogs seldom bite: Those who make loud threats seldom carry them out. Better late than never: To do something that is right, profitable, or good a little late is still better than not doing it at all. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush: Something that one already has is better than going after something seemingly more worthwhile that one may not be able to get. Birds of a feather flock together: People of the same sort of character or belief always go together. Call a spade a spade: If you say that someone calls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak frankly and directly, often about embarrassing or unpleasant subjects; an informal expression. Charity begins at home: A person's first obligation should be to help the member of his own family before he can begin thinking of talking about helping others. Dead men tell no lies:( often used as an argument for killing someone whose knowledge of a secret may cause one loss or get into serious trouble.) A great talker is a great liar:A smooth and persuasive talker may be a good liar. Every cloud has a silver lining: If you say that every cloud has a silver lining, you mean that every sad or unpleasant situation has a positive side to it. If you talk about silver lining you are talking about something positive that comes out of a sad or unpleasant situation. All that glitters is not gold: Do not be deceived by things or offers that appear to be attractive. Eat to live, but do not live to eat: Man was created for a divine purpose and he has a destiny with his Creator - he was not born just to enjoy food. Don't put all your eggs in one basket: One should not risk everything he has in a single venture. Every dog has its day: Everyone will get a period of success or satisfaction during his lifetime. Every one can find fault, few can do better: It is easier to find fault in other people's actions or methods than to do it properly or correctly. Any time means no time: When an event is not decided on or planned earlier it will never take place. Fair exchange is no robbery: A contract is fair as long as both the parties understand and agree to the conditions willingly; after a deal is closed neither side can turn around and say that he was unfairly treated. Fire is a good servant but a bad master: Fire, like any other manmade tool or device, will serve man well only when it is controlled and used wisely. * (ERMICAL) "It's better to be idiot than to pretend wise" * A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. o Mao Zedong[1] o Meaning: You need to make the initial step if you are ever to complete a task. * A bad penny always turns up. o Meaning: Your mistakes will come back to haunt you. Or Bad people will always return. * A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. * A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow. * A good enemy is better person than a false friend * A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe. o Meaning: Those who make themselves seem great will attract bad things * An apple a day keeps the doctor away. * A bad workman (always) blames his tools. o Meaning: People never blame themselves for what they do. * A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it starts to rain. * A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist. o Franklin P. Jones[2] * A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. * A burnt child dreads the fire. o Meaning: A person who has had bad experiences will shy away from certain things. o This Proverb intimates, That it is natural for all living Creatures, whether rational or irrational, to consult their own Security, and Self-Preservation; and whether they act by Instinct or Reason, it still tends to some care of avoiding those things that have already done them an Injury. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [1] * A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. o Attributed to Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi * A night with Venus and a life with mercury. o Anti-promiscuity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis o Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard's ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01. * A cat may look at a king. o Meaning: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please. * A camel is a horse designed by committee. o Meaning: a vision is more perfect from the individual rather than a group of people where it becomes anodyne. * A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. o Meaning: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members. o Interpretation: The strength of a group depends on how the less fortunate are treated; equality is the key to strength. * A closed mouth catches no flies. o Meaning: One has to try in order to succeed. * A constant guest is never welcome. * A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant tastes of death but once. o From William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar[3] o Meaning: The valiant (the brave) take no account of possible danger, whereas cowards are constantly fearing the worst. [4] * A fool and his money are soon parted. * A fox smells its own lair first. Or A fox smells its own stink first. Meaning: One knows where they belong, and knows when they make a mistake. * A friend in need is a friend indeed. o Meaning: A genuine friend is with you even in times of trouble. * A friend to all is a friend to none. o Meaning: Someone who appears to be a friend to everyone is not in fact a true friend of anyone. * A good beginning makes (for) a good ending. o Meaning: Planning is the key to success. * A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all. o Meaning: society is what makes good good and bad bad * A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. * A guilty conscience needs no accuser. * A half truth is a whole lie. * A jack of all trades is master of none. * A kingdom is lost for want of a shoe (OR for want of a nail). o Meaning: serious consequences can result from seemingly tiny or trivial omissions and errors. o Originally a rhyme * A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. o Charles Spurgeon. A great lie may be widely accepted before the truth comes to light. * A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. o A little Learning is a dangerous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ Alexander Pope * A loaded wagon makes no noise. o People with real money don't talk about it. * A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile. o Meaning: A miss is a miss regardless the distance * Always care about your flowers and your friends. Otherwise they'll fade, and soon your house will be empty. * A paragraph should be like a lady's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting. * A penny saved is a penny earned. o Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac * A penny spent is a penny earned. o In contrast to spending on the poor people. o Interpretation: capitalist alteration of Ben Franklin's original saying ["A penny saved is a penny earned"]. The concentration on spending rather than saving promotes the contemporary capitalist economic theory of putting money back into the economy (rather than hording it) to create more wealth. * A man is known by the company he keeps. * Anyone who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, is aiming ten inches too high. * A Pasoly in the eye is worth several in the shins. o A good shot is worth many bad ones * A picture is worth a thousand words. * A pot of milk is ruined by a drop of poison. * A rolling stone gathers no moss. o A Turkish Proverb o Interpretation: A person who is active will not grow stale. o Alternative interpretation: A person who does not stay in one place very long will not develop roots or meaningful connections with others. o Philip K. Dick in We Can Build You (1972) conceives a world where the latter interpretation has become the norm and the former indicative of a mental disorder. * A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life. o Interpretation: patriarchy is an evil that still plagues society. * A stitch in time saves nine. o Fix the small problem now before it becomes larger and harder to fix. * Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there * Absence makes the heart grow fonder. o From Isle of Beauty by Thomas Haynes Bayly o Interpretation: We miss people when we are separated from them. * Act today only tomorrow is too late * Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. * Actions speak louder than words. * Advice most needed is least heeded. * After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile. o Americans need more exercise * All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. o sometimes you have to do bad things to get good ones * All the world is your country, to do good is your religion. * All flowers are not in one garden. * All frills and no knickers. o Possible interpretation: All style and no substance. * All good things must come to an end. * All hat and no cattle. o Possible interpretation: All talk and appearance and little or no substance. * All roads lead to Rome. o Possible interpretation: However you try to go about things all will lead to the same conclusions o Possible interpretation: Power draws all things to itself. o Interpretation: The heartland/metropolis (for better or worse) yields considerable power. * All's fair in love and war. o Interpretation: Love and War are arenas of complete passion that often obfuscate reason. * All for one and one for all. o Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers * All's well that ends well. o A play by William Shakespeare o Variant: All is well that ends well. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [2] * All sizzle and no steak. o Possible interpretation: All style and no substance * All that glisters is not gold. o William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene 7 o Possible interpretation: Not everything is what it appears to be. * All things come to him who waits. * All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. * All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. * An Englishman's home is his castle. o Possible interpretation: A person is king in his home. o Another interpretation: a man feels safe in his home. o Interpretation: Men hyperbolize the size of their possessions (and other things) due to insecurity. * An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. o Possible interpretation: retribution should be equitable, proportionate and "fit the crime". Biblical reference, modern usage often connotes support for capital punishment. * An empty vessel makes the most noise o Those with the least understanding often complain about things the most. * An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. * An old dog will learn no tricks. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [3] * An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. o Possible interpretation: Similar to that of A stitch in time saves nine. Preventing something in advance is better than fixing it later on. * April showers bring May flowers. o Meaning: Something seeming bad or boring now brings good things in the future. * Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies. o Alternative: Ask no questions and hear no lies. * As fit as a fiddle. o Meaning: very fit and well * As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another * As soon as a man is born,he begins to die. * As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. * Aught for naught, and a penny change. o Northern English, Anything for nothing... * A watched pot never boils. o Main interpretation: Time seems to pass quicker when you aren't consciously waiting for something o Possible interpretation: Worrying over something can make the task seem to take longer than it should. * A woman's work is never done. o From a folk rhyme - A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done, meaning that a man's traditional role as breadwinner may keep him occupied from sun-up to sundown, but the traditional roles of a woman demand even longer hours of work. * A word spoken is past recalling. o Alternative: What's done is done (so think before doing). o Alternative: History repeats itself * A woman is like a cup of tea; you'll never know how strong she is until she boils * Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ?- C. S. Lewis * An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. o Meaning: it is better to be careful and discrete than to be clever. [edit] B * Building relationships is like fermenting wine; You may crush the grapes with ample efforts and give them enough warmth at the inception, Yet the wine will age at its own leisurely pace. - vikrant sawant [vapocalypse] o Meaning : Relationships grow at their own pace no matter how hard you push it. * Bad news travels fast. * Barking dogs seldom bite. o Meaning: People who are busy complaining rarely take more concrete hostile action. o Alternate meaning: Those who cast threats are seldom man enough to carry them out. * Barking up the wrong tree. * Before criticizing a man, walk a mile in his shoes. o Meaning: One should not criticize a person without understanding their situation. * Beggars can't be choosers. o Meaning: Those who are in need of help should not criticize the help they receive. * Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. * Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. o Variant: Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. * Better late than never. o Meaning: It's better to make an effort to keep an appointment than to give up altogether when you discover you will be late. * Better safe than sorry. o Meaning: It is better to take precautions when its possible that something can go amiss then to regret doing nothing later if something should indeed go wrong. * Better the devil you know (than the one you don't). * Beware of the Bear when he tucks in his shirt. * Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. (Matthew; bible quote) * Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. o A reference to the Trojan Horse * Birds of a feather flock together. o Variant: Birds of the same feather flock together. + Meaning: People who are similar to one another tend to stay together. * Bitter pills may have blessed effects. * Blood is thicker than water. o Meaning: Bonds between family members are stronger than other relationships. * Blood will out. o Meaning: A person's ancestry or upbringing will eventually show. * Bloom where you are planted. * Born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth. o Meaning: Born in a rich family. * Boys will be boys. o Meaning: Boys are traditionally expected to misbehave, while girls are not. * Brag is a good Dog, but Holdfast is a better o This Proverb is a Taunt upon Braggadoccio's, who talk big, boast, and rattle: It is also a Memento for such who make plentiful promises to do well for the future but are suspected to want Constancy and Resolution to make them good. - Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 [4] * Brain is better than brawn. * Bread is the staff of life. * Buy the best and you only cry once.

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Fashion choices

Posted by bouceffa on 31st août 2008

On the Street…..Left Bank, Paris

Notice that both of todays female images are wearing jackets with pushed up sleeves.

I did a post recently about men wearing pushed-up sleeves and the reaction was mixed if not a little more negative.

I wonder if there is a perceived difference between women doing it and men pushing the sleeves?

On the Street…..White on White, Paris

posted by The Sartorialist at 9:19 AM 62 comments

The Thin Man



I love the Thin Man movies so during vacation I thought it would be fun to read the book.

After about three pages I realized that The Thin Man is nothing without William Powell.

The words are the same but William Powell made them jump and gave them such life!

This is one of the few times that the movie is so much more entertaining than the book.

Am I wrong?

On the Street…..Jean Shorts, Paris

On the Street…..Gatsby Moment, Paris


On the Street…..Left Bank, Paris


Reading List….Elegance - The Seeberger Brothers

I found this book Elegance - The Seeberger Brothers and the Birth of Fashion Photography by Chronicle Books about a year ago. I have flipped through it often, but I took it on vacation recently and absolutely fell in love with it.

Someday, 100 years from now, I hope some young person will flip through a book of my images and feel the way I felt looking at these photos.

Running a blog is a daily job that requires immediate action. I love that challenge but it is equally important to me that these images last and hopefully reflect a little bit of this moment in time for future generations.

I don’t worry if what I do is art - but it is a document. A book like this makes me proud that I might be able to continue that tradition.

I am so jealous I didn’t take this photo, but the picture I took the other day in Stockholm feels like this to me and you could almost switch the two young woman and still have the same spirit of the image.

I like to look at this image and imagine it is the Tuileries in Paris and that I am capturing the same spirits today but in different bodies dressed in different clothing.

There are not many men’s images in the book but the ones that are included are fantastic.

Even the little details are fascinating. This photo is dated Aug 14th in Deauville.

AUGUST 14th! And she is wearing a giant coat. There are a lot of images like this, people really bundled up in the middle of August. It is the disconnect from today’s world that I think makes these images romantic and mysterious.

What can I say about this image except it is soooo beautiful and inspiring.

On the street…..Taxi Taxi, Stockholm

posted by The Sartorialist at 7:34 AM 67 comments

On the Street….Face Graphics, Milan



On the Street…..Last Looks of Summer, Milan

On the Street……Stockholm Smile


This was going to be a full-length photo but she looked so serious in each shot.

However each time I lowered the camera she would smile like this.

again, anticipation

On the Street…..Gustav, Sodermalm

On the Street…..Mats, Stockholm

On the Street…..Ostermalm, Stockholm


On the Street…..Ostermalm, Stockholm


On the Street…..Black & White, Stockholm


On the Street….Joakim, Stockholm


Looks like he just stepped off a Prada runway and yet he only paid $6 for this coat.

I think it was a doctors labcoat but because of the color and weight it looked more like something you would buy at APC.

ps if you are wondering he is not a model but i think he should look into the possibilities

On the Street…..Sodermalm, Stockholm

Photography = Anticipation

As you may or may not know I taught myself photography by shooting my own kids.

If you really want to capture your kids true spirit the most important rule is not a big camera or complicated lights but anticipation.

The photographs above were taken with a tiny Canon point-and-shoot. It was so bright at the beach I couldn’t even see the screen on the back of the camera but i knew that if I got them both in the frame that I just had to wait for the right moment.

For example, the top photo is Isabel taking the sand sifter from Claudia with a let-me-show-how-to-do-this bravado. The photo is all about the look on Claudia’s face because she knows she wont see the sifter again for a while, or until we intervene. It is such a classic moment between brothers and sisters. (to really get the shot, click on the photo to enlarge the image)

In the bottom photo, the snap on Claudia’s top suddenly broke and she has this surprised/embarrassed laugh that shows just how cool she is and able to laugh-off her own embarrassment. Those are moments you can’t script or re-shoot but when you see the elements coming together (like the two of them playing nicely with each other) then you just have to place yourself in the position to get the right light and angle. The photo “That Moment” posted July 14th was taken with the same idea - I saw the perfect light and the activity of people running into the show so I stayed in one spot and just kinda waited for something to happen. Most of the time nothing happens, but the few times it does the reward can be really great.

So I Found My Hat for Vacation


On July 22nd I did a post about wanting to find a good Panama hat.

Thanks for all the great suggestions of where to find them.

I looked at a lot of high-end options and mass-produced options but the one problem that I couldn’t get out of my head was the image of my new hat blowing down the beach never to be seen again.

In the end I found the perfect hat at (of all unexpected places) Marc Jacobs on Mercer St.

It only cost around $40 so if I lost it I was only going to cry a little. What really sold me on the hat was the “fiber” it was made of and how “crinkly/wrinkly” it could get. For $40 I can only imagine the hat is made from recycled Styrofoam coffee cups, but I’m OK with that.

To be honest, after wearing it for a while I am still debating if it is really me. I love the romantic Euro-allure of it but when I’m playing on the beach (and I mean playing hard - like paddle ball with a nine year old) it is hard for me to feel right in anything other than a Yankees cap and wrap-stemmed RayBan Aviator sunglasses.

For me, style is about not being afraid to try something new but being honest enough with yourself that even though “it” might be “fashionable”, “it” might not be you.

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