Where it’s from: “Money buys everything, except morality and citizens.” — Jean Jacques Rosseau (1750).
Where it’s from: Coined in the 1930s by industrial engineer Allen Morgenstern, as he aimed to simplify…
Where it’s from: We’ve all heard this before. It’s when a parent makes a decision they maybe…
Where it’s from: A proverb written by Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613, “All the carnal beauty of my wife, is but…
Where it’s from: Introduced in Homer’s The Iliad, Achilles was a soldier of great renown. Prophecy foretold of an early death, so…
Where it’s from: In 23 BC a Roman poet name Horace wrote the phrase “Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” in one of his books…
Where it’s from: According to phrases.org.uk, the earliest appearance was in The Boke of…
