Stop and Smell the Roses may refer to: . Stop and smell the roses, a 20th-century proverb (see Paremiography); Stop and Smell the Roses (Mac Davis album), a 1974 Mac Davis album "Stop and Smell the Roses" (song), a 1974 song written and first recorded by Mac Davis Stop and Smell the Roses (Ringo Starr album), a 1981 Ringo Starr album "Stop and Take the Time …

Definitions. Lord John Russell (c. 1850) observed poetically that a "proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many." But giving the word "proverb" the sort of definition theorists need has proven to be a difficult task, and although scholars often quote Archer Taylor's argument that formulating a scientific "definition of a proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking...

parenchyma [pah-reng´kĭ-mah] the essential or functional elements of an organ, as distinguished from its framework, which is called the stroma. adj., adj paren´chymal, parenchym´atous. parenchyma of prostate glandular substance consisting of small compound tubulosaccular or tubuloalveolar glands, making up the bulk of the prostate; it is surrounded ...

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; ([ ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]) English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October 1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. As a Catholic priest, he was an important figure in classical ...