Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 52
... half to bran " ( French ) . ' God sends fools fortune . " The It is to this version of the Latin adage , Fortuna favet fatuis ( " Fortune favours fools " ) , that Touchstone alludes in his reply to Jacques : - 666 ' No , sir , ' quoth ...
... half to bran " ( French ) . ' God sends fools fortune . " The It is to this version of the Latin adage , Fortuna favet fatuis ( " Fortune favours fools " ) , that Touchstone alludes in his reply to Jacques : - 666 ' No , sir , ' quoth ...
Pàgina 60
... half a dozen will be pecking out his eyes ( and he drew his hand over his own ) , and tearing out his heart - strings before the poor devil has time to die . " " - Scotch . Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune . Blame ...
... half a dozen will be pecking out his eyes ( and he drew his hand over his own ) , and tearing out his heart - strings before the poor devil has time to die . " " - Scotch . Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune . Blame ...
Pàgina 106
... Sack zur Mulle . 2 Ogni volpe habbia cura della sua coda . 3 Zelf is de Man . 4 Manda o amo ao moço , o moço ao gato , e o gato ao rabo . My successor thought , as half the world always thinks , 106 PROVERBS OF ALL NATIONS .
... Sack zur Mulle . 2 Ogni volpe habbia cura della sua coda . 3 Zelf is de Man . 4 Manda o amo ao moço , o moço ao gato , e o gato ao rabo . My successor thought , as half the world always thinks , 106 PROVERBS OF ALL NATIONS .
Pàgina 107
Walter Keating Kelly. successor thought , as half the world always thinks , that a man in command has only to order , and obedience will follow . Hence they are baffled , not from want of talent , but from inactivity , vainly thinking ...
Walter Keating Kelly. successor thought , as half the world always thinks , that a man in command has only to order , and obedience will follow . Hence they are baffled , not from want of talent , but from inactivity , vainly thinking ...
Pàgina 130
... half the world taken for it , goes some way to suppress it in its own time , and perhaps lives for it in history . " 1 Defoe says , - " Wherever God erects a house of prayer , The devil always builds a chapel there ; And ' twill be ...
... half the world taken for it , goes some way to suppress it in its own time , and perhaps lives for it in history . " 1 Defoe says , - " Wherever God erects a house of prayer , The devil always builds a chapel there ; And ' twill be ...
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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.