Proverbial wisdom, with preface by B. JerroldWilliam Blanchard Jerrold 1874 |
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... devil and all his works . Advantage is a better soldier than rashness . Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot . Adversity often leads to prosperity . Advise no one to go to the wars , or to marry . Ae gude friend is worth ...
... devil and all his works . Advantage is a better soldier than rashness . Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot . Adversity often leads to prosperity . Advise no one to go to the wars , or to marry . Ae gude friend is worth ...
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... devil . An auld horse may dee ere the grass grow . An empty bag cannot stand upright . An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles . An empty purse frights away friends . An enemy is a perpetual spy . An enemy may chance to give good ...
... devil . An auld horse may dee ere the grass grow . An empty bag cannot stand upright . An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles . An empty purse frights away friends . An enemy is a perpetual spy . An enemy may chance to give good ...
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... devil when he finds the door shut against him . Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee . B BACCHUS hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Be a friend to thyself , and others will be ...
... devil when he finds the door shut against him . Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee . B BACCHUS hath drowned more men than Neptune . Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice . Be a friend to thyself , and others will be ...
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... devils . Drunkenness turns a man out of himself , and leaves a beast in his room . Dummie canna lee . Dying is as natural as living . E EARLY birds catch the worms . East or west , hame is best . Easy learning the cat the road to the ...
... devils . Drunkenness turns a man out of himself , and leaves a beast in his room . Dummie canna lee . Dying is as natural as living . E EARLY birds catch the worms . East or west , hame is best . Easy learning the cat the road to the ...
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... devil . He had need rise betimes , who would please everybody . He has a bee in his bonnet . He has a gude judgment that doesna lippen to his ain . He has a saw for a ' sairs . He has feathered his nest , he may flee when he likes . He ...
... devil . He had need rise betimes , who would please everybody . He has a bee in his bonnet . He has a gude judgment that doesna lippen to his ain . He has a saw for a ' sairs . He has feathered his nest , he may flee when he likes . He ...
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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
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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.