"lost"", or ""Many hands make light work"" and ""Too many cooks spoil the broth"". These have been labeled ""counter proverbs"" or ""antonymous proverbs"". When there are such counter proverbs, each can be used in its own appropriate situation, and neither is intended to be a universal truth. The concept of ""counter proverb"" is more about pairs of contradictory proverbs than about the use of proverbs to counter each other in an argument. For example, from the Tafi language of Ghana, the following pair of proverbs are counter to each other but are each used in appropriate contexts, ""A co-wife who"
"Divers hands Divers hands (or more rarely dyvers hands), is an archaic phrase used to refer to a project that has been contributed to by many people. ""Divers"" is a word of Latin origin (""diversus"") that is still commonly used in modern French language; it literally means ""many and varied"". This usage of the word ""Divers"" can be found in the Bible and other older texts, but it is not commonly used in modern English. The phrase is still used to refer to the authorship of plays, essay collections, and short story collections by multiple authors. The oldest usage of"
"isn't any author's name, use 'divers hands'. Otherwise, most of the usage seen for 'divers hands' is in literary criticism, for instance: Divers hands Divers hands (or more rarely dyvers hands), is an archaic phrase used to refer to a project that has been contributed to by many people. ""Divers"" is a word of Latin origin (""diversus"") that is still commonly used in modern French language; it literally means ""many and varied"". This usage of the word ""Divers"" can be found in the Bible and other older texts, but it is not commonly used in modern English. The phrase is"
"moss as a positive thing, such as profit; others see the proverb as praising people that keep moving and developing, seeing moss as a negative thing, such as negative habits. Similarly, among Tajik speakers, the proverb ""One hand cannot clap"" has two significantly different interpretations. Most see the proverb as promoting teamwork. Others understand it to mean that an argument requires two people. In an extreme example, one researcher working in Ghana found that for a single Akan proverb, twelve different interpretations were given. Children will sometimes interpret proverbs in a literal sense, not yet knowing how to understand the"
"""hand"" in this context is defined as a combination of ingredients. The term may derive from the use of finger and hand bones from the dead in mojo bags, or from ingredients such as the lucky hand root (favored by gamblers). The latter suggests an analogy between the varied bag ingredients and the several cards that make up a hand in card games. Mojo reaches as far back as West African culture, where it is said to drive away evil spirits, keep good luck in the household, manipulate a fortune, and lure and persuade lovers. The ideology of the ancestors"
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip is a very old proverb, similar in meaning to ""don't count your chickens before they hatch"". It implies that even when a good outcome or conclusion seems certain, things can still go wrong. The English proverb is almost identical with a Greek hexameter verse, Πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου (Much there is between the cup and the tip of the lip). This verse was proverbial at the time of Aulus Gellius (2nd century A.D.), who mentions it in"
"Hot hand The ""hot hand"" (also known as the ""hot hand phenomenon"" or ""hot hand fallacy"") is the purported phenomenon that a person who experiences a successful outcome with a random event has a greater probability of success in further attempts. The concept is often applied to sports and skill-based tasks in general and originates from basketball, whereas a shooter is allegedly more likely to score if their previous attempts were successful, i.e. while having ""hot hands"". While previous success at a task can indeed change the psychological attitude and subsequent success rate of a player, researchers for many years"
"who has action among other men, much action, much spirit, much wisdom. Am I wrong? I think it is not so when I see his face; he is what you call unselfish, and the man who doe not get rich from his good work for all people He knows much law, and I make him a great man in my native costume. I do more than all. I make him a Buddhist priest—No, no, I do not make him an inner priest. He has the mustache, which he should not have at all. See, I make the Kesa, or robes"
"With a strong hand and an outstretched arm With a strong hand and an outstretched arm is a phrase in the Bible to describe God's use of his power on behalf of Israel, particularly during the Exodus. The phrase is used many times in the Bible to describe God's powerful deeds during the Exodus: Exodus 6:6, Deuteronomy 4:34 5:14 7:19 9:29 11:2 26:8, Psalms 132:12. The phrase is also used to describe other past or future mighty deeds of God, in the following sources: II Kings 17:36, Jeremiah 21:5 27:5 32:17, Ezekiel 20:33 20:34, II Chronicles 6:32. A shortened version"
"When the swords flash out in seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Thou who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free. [Verse 2] Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Thou art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nerves the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm."
"and bestow dew and rain for blessing on all the face of the earth; and make abundant the face of the world and fulfil the whole of Thy goodness. Fill our hands with Thy blessings and the richness of the gifts of Thy hands. Preserve and save this year from all evil and from all kinds of destroyers and from all sorts of punishments: and establish for it good hope and as its outcome peace. Spare it and have mercy upon it and all of its harvest and its fruits, and bless it with rains of favor, blessing, and generosity;"
"Hand of Glory The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left () hand, or, if the man were hanged for murder, the hand that ""did the deed."" Old European beliefs attribute great powers to a Hand of Glory combined with a candle made from fat from the corpse of the same malefactor who died on the gallows. The candle so made, lighted, and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory, would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented."
"blasted the rocks, Where for ages vast treasures lay hid; And shewed Heaven the coffer where Earth stored her wealth, And laughed loud as he shattered the lid. I marked every step the magic king took, Till he bounded the wide spreading plain, And I marked how the eye of God followed his path While the heavens sang a gladsome refrain, And this was its burthen – ""There's plenty for all, Look abroad in the light of the day, And view the corn challenge the sickel and scythe, With its lances well poised for the fray."" The harvest well-garnered-Toils heralds"
"Forceps ""Forceps"" (plural forceps or considered a plural noun without a singular, often a pair of forceps; the Latin plural ""forcipes"" is no longer recorded in most dictionaries) are a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects. Forceps are used when fingers are too large to grasp small objects or when many objects need to be held at one time while the hands are used to perform a task. The term ""forceps"" is used almost exclusively within the medical field. Outside medicine, people usually refer to forceps as tweezers, tongs, pliers, clips or clamps. Mechanically, forceps employ the"
"material wealth and friends, and achieve happiness. The poet explains that the distribution of man's fortunes and misfortunes is in God's hands, including that of one's skills and talents: martial dexterity (throwing and shooting), cunning at board-games, scholarly wisdom and the craft of a goldsmith. The same applies to one's success or skills in cheering one's drinking fellows or in singing and plucking the harp, while sitting at the feet of one's lord. The last image drawn from Anglo-Saxon life is that of taming the hawk. Apart from underpinning the vast array of skills made available to men, it may"
"Mojo (African-American culture) Mojo , in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a ""prayer in a bag"", or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body. Alternative American names for the mojo bag include hand, mojo hand, conjure hand, lucky hand, conjure bag, trick bag, root bag, toby, jomo, and gris-gris bag. The term ""mojo"" is now commonly used in the English language to mean one's personal talent or gift. For example, a person might say that they are ""getting"
"""Ingoldsby Legends"", ""The Hand of Glory, or, The Nurse's Story"", describes the making and use of a Hand of Glory. The first lines are: <poem>Now open, lock! To the Dead Man's knock! Fly, bolt, and bar, and band! Nor move, nor swerve, Joint, muscle, or nerve, At the spell of the Dead Man's hand! Sleep, all who sleep! -- Wake, all who wake! But be as the dead for the Dead Man's sake!</poem> Hand of Glory The Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a man who has been hanged, often specified as being the left ()"
"making them: and that, consequently, the manufacturing working man's wages are reduced, the mills are shut up, business is ruined, and general distress is spread through the country. But when, as now, the working man has the said 25""s"" left in his pocket, he buys more clothing with it (ay, and other articles of comfort too), and that increases the demand for them, and the greater the demand ... makes them rise in price, and the rising price enables the working man to get higher wages and the masters better profits. This, therefore, is the way I prove that high"
"hand can count to twelve, and two hands can count to 144. Twelve dozen (12 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (12 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. A baker's dozen, also known as a big or long dozen, is 13. Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs). Dozen may also be used to express a"
"rich, of those in easy circumstances, of the poor, of workmen with their hands, workmen with their minds; of day-laborers, of those in need, of a small number of men enjoying considerable acquired or inherited wealth, of others of a smaller fortune painfully increased and improved, of others with property only sufficient for their needs; there are some, finally, without any personal possession but their hands, and gleaning for themselves and for their families, in the workshop, or the field, and at the threshold of the homes of others on the earth, the asylum, the wages, the bread, the instruction,"
"person will possess good qualities, be head of family and proficient; with sixteen ""rashmis"" most distinguished in the family; with seventeen ""rashmis"" an employer of many; with eighteen rashmis one has and maintains a large family; with nineteen ""rashmis"" earns a good reputation and becomes well-known; with twenty ""rashmis"", blessed with a large family and many relatives; with twenty-one ""rashmis"", maintains and protects fifty people; with twenty-two ""rashmis"", very charitable and kind; with twenty-three ""rashmis"" well-cultured and happy, and if the total ""rashmis"" are between twenty-four and thirty the person will be healthy, powerful, well-connected and rich. The person blessed"
"multiplication of the production of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people. Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. He supplies them"
"to the trapper who was not merely skillful in snaring pigeons, but also skillful at storing and preserving the birds. The proverb referred to individuals who possessed the ability to successfully function in multiple contexts, a trait held in high regard by early Tongans. Relevant to the village characteristic of Kolonga and present day descendents, the proverb captured an element of wisdom known to the early Tongans. That is, humans have greater success at surviving if they are adaptable, skillful and functional in more than one environment. Kolonga has small numbers of shops and sometimes special events occur at Free"
"market analysis and prediction, compared with today’s macroeconomic models. Invisible hand The invisible hand is a term used by Adam Smith to describe the unintended social benefits of an individual's self-interested actions. The phrase was employed by Smith with respect to income distribution (1759) and production (1776). The exact phrase is used just three times in Smith's writings, but has come to capture his notion that individuals' efforts to pursue their own interest may frequently benefit society more than if their actions were directly intending to benefit society. Smith may have come up with the two meanings of the phrase"
"Manual labour Manual labour (in British English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by people, most especially in contrast to that done by machines, and to that done by working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word ""manual"" comes from the Latin word for hand), and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the muscles and bones of the body. For most of human prehistory and history, manual labour and its close cousin, animal labour, have been the primary ways that physical work has been accomplished."
"will ever be done. A beginning must be made and it has been made by the Theosophical society ... Riches are accumulating in the hands of the few while the poor are ground harder every day as they increase in number ... All this points unerringly to a vital error somewhere ... What is wanted is true knowledge of the spiritual condition of man, his aim, and destiny ... those who must begin the reform are those who are so fortunate as to be placed in the world where they can see and think out the problems all are endeavouring"
"in his right hand, while he says the prayer: O Lord Jesus Christ our God, Who didst bless the five loaves and didst therewith feed the five thousand: Do Thou, the same Lord, bless these loaves, wheat, wine and oil; and multiply them in this holy habitation, and in all the world; and sanctify all the faithful who shall partake of them. For it is Thou, O Christ our God, Who dost bless and sanctify all things; and unto Thee we ascribe glory: with the Father Who hath no beginning, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever,"
"hand, that thou likewise with him may'st rise; That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more, just. Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part with all thy art. The crosse taught all wood to resound his name, who bore the same. His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key Is the best to celebrate this most high day. Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song pleasant and long; Or since all musick is but three parts vied and multiplied. O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part, And"
"Hand A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each ""hand"" and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having ""hands"" instead of paws on their front limbs. The raccoon is usually described as having ""hands"" though opposable thumbs are lacking. Some evolutionary anatomists use the term ""hand"" to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally — for example, in the context"
"of Cicero's ""Ad Atticum"" letters in 51 B.C. and in the anonymous 13th-century French work ""De l'oue au chapelain"", There is a slight similarity between the wording of the proverb and that of an unattributed Greek iambic trimeter verse quoted by Cicero in a letter to Atticus, but this refers to the geographical distance between Cicero and his correspondent. Erasmus's 1523 ""Adagia"", in which he translated the Greek verse proverb into Latin verse as ""Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra"" was the basis of translations into many languages. An English translation by Taverner in 1539 rendered the proverb as ""Many"
"great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power... Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains,"
"extended our trade, – Gave food to our loving wives children, and cattle, But the queen of all weapons – the spade, boys, the spade. Give me the spade! There's a magic about it That turns the black soil into bright shining gold, What would our fathers have done, boys, without it, – When the land lay all bare, and the night winds blew cold? Where the tall forest stood, and the wild beasts were yelling, And our stout-hearted ancestors shrank back afraid, – The rich corn-stack is raised, and man claims a dwelling, Then hurrah! for our true friend"
"Many a true word is spoken in jest Many a true word is spoken in jest is an adage, aphorism or proverb. A version of this appears in the Prologue to The Cook's Tale (written in 1390) by Chaucer: """"Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd saye!"""". An early print appearance of the most familiar form of this aphorism was in Volume VII of the ""Roxburghe Ballads"", where appears in the prologue to ""The Merry Man's Resolution, or A London Frollick"". The ballad purportedly goes back to the 17th century, but the introductory verse was probably written by"