We explored the role that poetic form can play in people's perceptions of the accuracy of aphorisms as descriptions of human behavior. Participants judged the ostensible accuracy of unfamiliar aphorisms presented in their textually surviving form or a semantically equivalent modified form. Extant rhyming aphorisms in their original form (e.g., "What sobriety conceals, alcohol reveals") were jud...

science and art of pediatrics, and gives practical rules for diagnosis and prognosis, and also deals with the essentials of infant feeding and the principles of scientific treatment. Ever since the days of Hippocrates aphorisms have been a favourite mode of expressing the essential truths of medical science. It is not to be expected that all will agree with all the statements, but we agree with...

The article deals with aphoristics as a translator of the basic concepts Russian linguoculture. history aphorism reflects ethnic group, well all changes in public consciousness, while simultaneously fixing and preserving same values. researchers conducted semantic analysis corpus aphorisms recorded Dictionary Aphorisms Writers.

According to an Anglo-Saxon pun, "gout is the king of diseases and the disease of Kings". In fact, it is well-known that in past times a quantity of famous persons, including Kings and Popes, were affected with this rheumatic disorder. In this paper biographical anecdotes on several Popes (Pius III, Julius II, Julius III, Clement VIII, Innocent XI, Clement XII and Pius VIII), King George IV and...