Proverbs of All NationsW. Kent & Company, 1861 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... wind change oft . " Women are variable as April weather " ( German ) . * " Women , wind , and fortune soon change " ( Spanish ) .5 Francis I. of France wrote one day with a diamond on a window of the château of Chambord , - " Souvent ...
... wind change oft . " Women are variable as April weather " ( German ) . * " Women , wind , and fortune soon change " ( Spanish ) .5 Francis I. of France wrote one day with a diamond on a window of the château of Chambord , - " Souvent ...
Pàgina 56
... wind blows it enters at every crevice " floods . ( Arab ) . It is an ill wind that blows nobody good . There is a local version of this proverb : - It is an ill wind that blows no good to Cornwall . On the rock - bound coasts of that ...
... wind blows it enters at every crevice " floods . ( Arab ) . It is an ill wind that blows nobody good . There is a local version of this proverb : - It is an ill wind that blows no good to Cornwall . On the rock - bound coasts of that ...
Pàgina 67
... wind ne'er sae fast , it will lown at the last . - Scotch . After a storm comes a calm . " After rain comes fine weather " ( French ) . " The longest day will have an end . Time and the hour run through the longest day . Be the day ne ...
... wind ne'er sae fast , it will lown at the last . - Scotch . After a storm comes a calm . " After rain comes fine weather " ( French ) . " The longest day will have an end . Time and the hour run through the longest day . Be the day ne ...
Pàgina 86
... wind in his hands " ( Dutch ) .1 Such things must be if we sell ale . This was the good woman's reply to her husband when he complained of the exciseman's too demonstra- tive gallantry . If you would have the hen's egg you must bear ...
... wind in his hands " ( Dutch ) .1 Such things must be if we sell ale . This was the good woman's reply to her husband when he complained of the exciseman's too demonstra- tive gallantry . If you would have the hen's egg you must bear ...
Pàgina 134
... wind out of hell but he wad sail with it . - Scotch . The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still . Simon Aleyn , or Allen , held the vicarage of Bray , in Berkshire , for fifty years , in the reigns of Henry VIII . , Edward VI ...
... wind out of hell but he wad sail with it . - Scotch . The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still . Simon Aleyn , or Allen , held the vicarage of Bray , in Berkshire , for fifty years , in the reigns of Henry VIII . , Edward VI ...
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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.