Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other Popular Dicta from Many Lands |
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... ( Martinique Creole ) . Advice given to people who , seeing the results of wrongdoing in others , refuse to turn from their evil ways . See " Wit and Humour in Proverbs . " " One man's beard is burning , another goes to light his ...
... ( Martinique Creole ) . Advice given to people who , seeing the results of wrongdoing in others , refuse to turn from their evil ways . See " Wit and Humour in Proverbs . " " One man's beard is burning , another goes to light his ...
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... ( Martinique Creole ) . The exposure of the teeth in laughter does not always indicate that the heart is merry . The third tongue slays three : the speaker , the spoken to , and the spoken of . ( Hebrew ) . By the third tongue is meant ...
... ( Martinique Creole ) . The exposure of the teeth in laughter does not always indicate that the heart is merry . The third tongue slays three : the speaker , the spoken to , and the spoken of . ( Hebrew ) . By the third tongue is meant ...
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... ( Martinique Creole ) . Who changes country , changes luck . ( Italian ) . " Who changes his condition changes fortune . " ( Italian ) . Change of pasture makes fat calves . " ( English ) . Who has luck warms himself without fire and ...
... ( Martinique Creole ) . Who changes country , changes luck . ( Italian ) . " Who changes his condition changes fortune . " ( Italian ) . Change of pasture makes fat calves . " ( English ) . Who has luck warms himself without fire and ...
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... ( Martinique Creole ) . This proverb , says Lafcadio Hearn , " implies that excessive good nature is usually indicative of feeble reasoning power . " It's a lonesome washing that there's not a ( man's ) shirt in . ( Irish ) . It's as true ...
... ( Martinique Creole ) . This proverb , says Lafcadio Hearn , " implies that excessive good nature is usually indicative of feeble reasoning power . " It's a lonesome washing that there's not a ( man's ) shirt in . ( Irish ) . It's as true ...
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... ( Martinique Creole ) . " The cockroach is always wrong when arguing with the chickens . " ( English ) . " The cock- roach never wins its cause when the chicken is judge . " ( Haytian ) . In a note to this proverb Mr. John Bigelow quotes ...
... ( Martinique Creole ) . " The cockroach is always wrong when arguing with the chickens . " ( English ) . " The cock- roach never wins its cause when the chicken is judge . " ( Haytian ) . In a note to this proverb Mr. John Bigelow quotes ...
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Page 105 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 112 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Page 99 - A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Page 98 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city ; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 182 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 125 - For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 367 - I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Page 112 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Page 146 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Page 146 - If apples are inclined to fall before their time, a stone placed in a split root will retain them.' Some such notion, still surviving, may account for some of the stones which we see placed, to be overgrown, in the forks of trees. They have a saying, in Suffolk, England. 'At Michaelmas time, or a little before, Half an apple goes to the core.