Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... come seems langer than a year that's gane . A dear ship lies lang in the harbour . A deceitful peace is more hurtful ... comes short of his reckoning . A fool and his money are sune parted . A fool at forty will ne'er be wise . A fool ...
... come seems langer than a year that's gane . A dear ship lies lang in the harbour . A deceitful peace is more hurtful ... comes short of his reckoning . A fool and his money are sune parted . A fool at forty will ne'er be wise . A fool ...
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... come to generations . A light - heeled mother maks a heavy - heeled dochter . A little leak will sink a great ship . A little more breaks a horse's back . A little neglect may breed great mischief . A long PROVERBIAL WISDOM . 9.
... come to generations . A light - heeled mother maks a heavy - heeled dochter . A little leak will sink a great ship . A little more breaks a horse's back . A little neglect may breed great mischief . A long PROVERBIAL WISDOM . 9.
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... comes to hand . A woman is known by her walking and drinking . A woman's work , and washing of dishes , is never at an end . A wool - seller knows a wool - buyer . A word before is worth two after . A word spoken is an arrow let fly . A ...
... comes to hand . A woman is known by her walking and drinking . A woman's work , and washing of dishes , is never at an end . A wool - seller knows a wool - buyer . A word before is worth two after . A word spoken is an arrow let fly . A ...
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... comes annoy . After the greatest danger is the greatest pleasure . Against God's wrath no castle is thunder proof . Agree , for the law is costly . Alexander himself was once a crying babe . Alexander was below a man , when he affected ...
... comes annoy . After the greatest danger is the greatest pleasure . Against God's wrath no castle is thunder proof . Agree , for the law is costly . Alexander himself was once a crying babe . Alexander was below a man , when he affected ...
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... come . Brave actions never want a trumpet . Bridal feasts are soon forgotten . Burnt bairns dread the fire . Business makes a man as well as tries him . Butter to butter's nae kitchen . By others ' faults wise men correct their own . By ...
... come . Brave actions never want a trumpet . Bridal feasts are soon forgotten . Burnt bairns dread the fire . Business makes a man as well as tries him . Butter to butter's nae kitchen . By others ' faults wise men correct their own . By ...
Common terms and phrases
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.