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- Paul
- Author of 1000 REAL ANSWERS - ENGLISH PHRASEBOOK & SELF-STUDY GUIDE. Co-author, with Silvia Rita Capursi, of the bilingual story for children and language-learning adults JIMMY SQUIRREL & THE CRAZY MARKET - JIMMY SCOIATTOLO E IL MERCATO MATTO (available also in English-German, JIMMY SQUIRREL & THE CRAZY MARKET - JIMMY EICHHÖRNCHEN UND DER VERRÜCKTE MARKT). Author of the novel THE WOODEN-LEGGED ELEPHANT, Amazon KDP (published in Italian, as DIO NON STA BENE, by Le Bolle Blu Edizioni, 2010). Author of MISERY PUSS - MICIO MUSONE (ExtremaThule Edizioni), a two-language story for 4- to 6-year-olds.
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...This question makes me think at the Gialappa's Band...!Whatever,I don't have a motto, but if I should have one,may be "Why to put off at tomorrow that you could make today?",because sometimes I am a bit lazy...
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P.S:It' s very hard to answer this question!
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow".
ReplyDeleteIs this the reason why I'm not able to save money...?
Oh no Paul!I have not a motto. You oblige me thinking about to find it from now on!:-)
ReplyDeleteMaria
I haven't a motto but there is a sentence of a song by Baglioni that I repeat often: "you'll have your time for go away, you'll walk forgetting and you'll stop dreaming"
ReplyDeleteAs Beda said " Semper aut discere aut docere aut legere".
ReplyDeleteStefania
my motto is:"live and let live"
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Still, you've answered it well, Adry. ("think of..."; "Maybe 'Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today!'")
ReplyDeleteVery possibly, Aleph!
I shall look forward to hearing what you come up with, Maria. ("I have not got a motto. Now I'm going to have to think one up")
I don't know the song, Francesca, but I have suggested a possible alternative to your translation. ("there is a line from a song by Baglioni that I often quote: 'you'll have your time to go away, you'll walk your way oblivious and your dreams will end'").
Wow, Stefania! When I said your English was perfect yesterday, I didn't think you'd switch to Latin. Or wheel in the Venerable Bede...
A noble sentiment, Daniela!
I have two "motti". One is in Latin "festina lente" that means "slowly hurry up" and the other I read in a book "La ragazza delle arance" by Jostein Gaarder is " Who can't live now, will ever not live. And you, what do you do?"
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