Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... better than a cowardly friend . A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies . A cracked bell can never sound well . A crookit stick will throw a crookit shadow . A cunning knave needs no broker . A daft nurse PROVERBIAL ...
... better than a cowardly friend . A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies . A cracked bell can never sound well . A crookit stick will throw a crookit shadow . A cunning knave needs no broker . A daft nurse PROVERBIAL ...
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... better than a triumph in a bad one . A fat kitchen makes a lean will . A father is a treasure , a brother a comfort , but a friend is both . A fault confessed is half redressed . A fault , once denied , is twice committed . A fine ...
... better than a triumph in a bad one . A fat kitchen makes a lean will . A father is a treasure , a brother a comfort , but a friend is both . A fault confessed is half redressed . A fault , once denied , is twice committed . A fine ...
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... better than a fool's smile . A friend's ne'er ken't till he's needed . A full cup must be carried steadily . A fu ' purse never lacks friends . A fu ' man and a hungry horse aye mak ' haste hame . A generous confession disarms slander ...
... better than a fool's smile . A friend's ne'er ken't till he's needed . A full cup must be carried steadily . A fu ' purse never lacks friends . A fu ' man and a hungry horse aye mak ' haste hame . A generous confession disarms slander ...
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... better than riches . A good paymaster needs no surety . A good presence is a letter of recommendation . A good recorder set all in order . A good reputation is a fair estate . A good servant makes a good master . A good servant should ...
... better than riches . A good paymaster needs no surety . A good presence is a letter of recommendation . A good recorder set all in order . A good reputation is a fair estate . A good servant makes a good master . A good servant should ...
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... better than an ill worker . A gude lawyer may be an ill neighbour . A greedy e'e ne'er got a gude pennyworth . A gude tongue's a gude safeguard . A gude wife and health is a man's best wealth . A gude word is as easy said as an ill ane ...
... better than an ill worker . A gude lawyer may be an ill neighbour . A greedy e'e ne'er got a gude pennyworth . A gude tongue's a gude safeguard . A gude wife and health is a man's best wealth . A gude word is as easy said as an ill ane ...
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auld beauty better Beware bird BLANCHARD JERROLD canna comes counsel danger deceived devil Dinna drink DUNN AND WRIGHT enemy fair fat kitchen fault fear folly fool fortune frae friendship Friezland gang give GLASGOW goes gold greatest gude hame hang happy haud heart heaven honest honour hope JOHN MENZIES keep kens knave knows lawyer lies long live looking-glass Love thy neighbour mair man's Marriage marry maun maxims mind misfortune mony morning naething nane neighbours never night old fox ower owls to Athens pleasure plough praise PROVERBIAL WISDOM purse rich Rolling stones servant SIR WALTER SCOTT speak There's things thinks thou thyself tongue trust truth twice vice virtue weel wife wind winna Wisdom rides wise wolf words worse worth young
Popular passages
Page 78 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 38 - If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you. If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
Page 39 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
Page 67 - There is no reputation so clear but a slanderer may stain it. There is no short cut of a way, without some ill way. There is no such flatterer as a man's self. There is no sufficient recompense for an unjust slander.
Page 65 - There are some solitary wretches, who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private. The vanity of human life is, like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Page 70 - Tis easy to fall into a trap, but hard to get out again. 'Tis easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection.
Page 51 - No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Page 72 - To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs.
Page 60 - the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a'-gley." The Captain's hopes were totally frustrated.