Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 28
... lives . They quickly forget past sorrows , and are careless of the future . Children suck the mother when they are young , and the father when they are old . 1 Een huis vol dochters is een kelder vol zuur bier . 2 Casa el hijo quando ...
... lives . They quickly forget past sorrows , and are careless of the future . Children suck the mother when they are young , and the father when they are old . 1 Een huis vol dochters is een kelder vol zuur bier . 2 Casa el hijo quando ...
Pàgina 57
... live to see ? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows , and most of them shadows of your own making . " - Sydney Smith . Ye're fleyed [ frightened ] o ' the day ye ne'er saw . · You cry out before you are hurt . Never yowl till ...
... live to see ? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows , and most of them shadows of your own making . " - Sydney Smith . Ye're fleyed [ frightened ] o ' the day ye ne'er saw . · You cry out before you are hurt . Never yowl till ...
Pàgina 80
... Live - long are brothers " ( German ) .2 Fools ' haste is no speed . The more haste the worse speed This seems to be derived from the Latin adage , Festinatio tarda est ( " Haste is slow " ) . It defeats its own purpose by the blunders ...
... Live - long are brothers " ( German ) .2 Fools ' haste is no speed . The more haste the worse speed This seems to be derived from the Latin adage , Festinatio tarda est ( " Haste is slow " ) . It defeats its own purpose by the blunders ...
Pàgina 96
Walter Keating Kelly. CUSTOM . HABIT . USE . Use will make a man live in a lion's den . Custom is second nature . Cicero says nearly the same thing , ' and the though . has been happily amplified by Sydney Smith . " There is no degree of ...
Walter Keating Kelly. CUSTOM . HABIT . USE . Use will make a man live in a lion's den . Custom is second nature . Cicero says nearly the same thing , ' and the though . has been happily amplified by Sydney Smith . " There is no degree of ...
Pàgina 99
... lives with cripples learns to limp ( Dutch ) . " He that goes with wolves learns to howl " ( Spanish ) ; and " He that lies down with dogs gets up with fleas " ( Spanish ) .5 As good be out of the world as out of the fashion . Mrs ...
... lives with cripples learns to limp ( Dutch ) . " He that goes with wolves learns to howl " ( Spanish ) ; and " He that lies down with dogs gets up with fleas " ( Spanish ) .5 As good be out of the world as out of the fashion . Mrs ...
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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.