Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent, 1861 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... fools on reflection . " They have less logical minds than men , but surpass them in quickness of intuition , having ... fool . " " 14 In Servia they say , It is sometimes right even to obey a sensible wife ; " and they tell this story ...
... fools on reflection . " They have less logical minds than men , but surpass them in quickness of intuition , having ... fool . " " 14 In Servia they say , It is sometimes right even to obey a sensible wife ; " and they tell this story ...
Pàgina 6
... fool who thinks by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will , she will , you may depend on't , And if she won't , she won't , and there's an end on't . " 99 1 Tre oche e tre donne fann ' un mercato . 2 Les ...
... fool who thinks by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will , she will , you may depend on't , And if she won't , she won't , and there's an end on't . " 99 1 Tre oche e tre donne fann ' un mercato . 2 Les ...
Pàgina 8
... fool . " Beauty is one of God's gifts , " says Mr. Lewes , " and every one really submits to its influence , whatever platitudes he may think needful to issue How , think you , should we ever have relished the immortal fragments of ...
... fool . " Beauty is one of God's gifts , " says Mr. Lewes , " and every one really submits to its influence , whatever platitudes he may think needful to issue How , think you , should we ever have relished the immortal fragments of ...
Pàgina 28
... fools tell truth . 1 And tell it when it were better left untold . " These terrible children ! " ( French . ) * Children and fools have merry lives . They quickly forget past sorrows , and are careless of the future . Children suck the ...
... fools tell truth . 1 And tell it when it were better left untold . " These terrible children ! " ( French . ) * Children and fools have merry lives . They quickly forget past sorrows , and are careless of the future . Children suck the ...
Pàgina 29
... fool at fifteen . In the days when cock - fighting was a fashionable pastime , game chickens that crowed too soon or too often were condemned to the spit as of no promise or ability . " A lad , " says Archbishop Whateley , " who has to ...
... fool at fifteen . In the days when cock - fighting was a fashionable pastime , game chickens that crowed too soon or too often were condemned to the spit as of no promise or ability . " A lad , " says Archbishop Whateley , " who has to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 66 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Pàgina 60 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Pàgina 60 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Pàgina 213 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Pàgina 16 - Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again.
Pàgina 132 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pàgina 17 - God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife; for from thence will spring all thy future good or evil. And it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure ; if weak, far off and quickly.
Pàgina 130 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Pàgina 75 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.