From: David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: New Member Introductory Rant
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:03:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080330140349310319.c6bd3265@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00803300750r79ddc5aclcea203d33f2e8836@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:50:59 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> I don't know the English version of it (there must be one - if anyone
> knows it, I would be glad to hear it), but we have a nice saying,
> literally translated as:
> "Farrier's own mare is always barefoot."
(In English it's almost exactly the same, except we usually use the
shoemaker's children instead of the farrier's mare.)
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-30 8:01 Corin Royal Drummond
2008-03-30 14:09 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-03-30 14:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-03-30 21:03 ` David [this message]
2008-03-31 8:08 ` proverb (was: New Member Introductory Rant) Marcin Borkowski
2008-03-30 22:56 ` New Member Introductory Rant Andrea Valle
2008-03-31 15:33 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-03-31 15:46 ` Andrea Valle
2008-04-01 0:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-04-01 7:24 ` Andrea Valle
2008-04-01 10:17 ` Hans Hagen
2008-03-31 20:23 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-03-30 18:07 Corin Royal Drummond
2008-03-30 19:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-03-31 15:40 ` Aditya Mahajan
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