 | David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...exert yourselves for their support; and, though it is a received proverb among men of the world, that "when poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window," yet it will be found completely false, where there is true love ; and you must learn to separate the... | |
 | 1807 - 550 pages
...men and manners, I am more inclined to echo the adage of our old nurse, who used to tell us, that *' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window." And yet, dear friend, one would wish that fortune should be but a secondary consideration in the choice... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...some expressions of dissatisfaction being uttered, one of our elder brethen quoted the old proverb, " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," and no more was said. In feet the crisis has been looked at in a generous spirit. It is believed that... | |
 | William Giles - Marriage - 1811 - 268 pages
...earthly joy f Thy gifts, O fortnne> 1 resign, Let her aiul poverty be mine! I know it is said, That when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. But why should this be thought strange ? The marriages to which the remark is applicable were originally... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...sunt. Poverty has, at times, the power of destroying even the affection of a parent to his offspring. " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." In extreme poverty, the mind is too intensely employed in procuring sustenance, to have leisure to... | |
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...real sufferings of an unavailing repentance. Every old woman in the parish ba« an Shswer ready, ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window'—' Marry in haste, and repent at leisure' — And what think you will become of affection when dissatisfaction... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - Lake District (England) - 1819 - 328 pages
...Very fine, indeed, if it will but hold ! but your two hundred a year won't main tain a family; and when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." " My Margaret's habits of economy will keep out the fiend," said Millichamp ; " and, if I err, she... | |
 | Charles Swan - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - 1824 - 566 pages
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window — ENGLISH PROVERB. that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE... | |
 | John Wade - Church - 1824 - 258 pages
...thither ; the third is thwick-thwack ; the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. Who has a bad wife, has purgatory for a neighbour. — Italian. Who is a cnckold, and conceals it,... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.— ENGLISH PROVERB. 1 that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE... | |
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I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 
