 | Photography - 1878 - 642 pages
...MAUDS LYing down as I write this, and I don't like to disturb her to ask which is the right one. " A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men." Mr. Ellerbeck also exhibited a knapsack for camera, &c., which was arranged so that the weight shall... | |
 | Kate Ross - 1879 - 340 pages
...Mr. Henderson nodded over the English papers. CHAPTER IV. " LET OUR OLD ACQUAINTANCE BE EENEWED." " A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men." HIGH jinks were in progress at the Grande Albergo on the commencement of the new year 77. On the morning... | |
 | James Young - Dumfries (Ont.) - 1880 - 298 pages
...and occasionally performed on the Fair day afternoons for the gratification of the country people. "A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. " After the union of Upper and Lower Canada, which took place in 1841, the County of Haiton was divided... | |
 | Thomas Williams Bicknell, Albert Edward Winship, Anson Wood Belding - Education - 1916 - 1014 pages
...thus: — "A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men." The original reads: — "A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men." "All the world loves a lover" is the world's way of quoting Emerson's sentiment, found in his essay... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 pages
...the proverbs about the poor heart that never rejoiceth, the effects of all work and no play, and that a little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men, I go about sniffing of the air of general enjoyment that is all around. Lodging my travelling bag at... | |
 | Clara Louise Burnham - American fiction - 1882 - 344 pages
...patronage 'way from here. I presume she tolerates leaving you with me awhile on the doctrine that ' a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men,' and will set off to advantage the ' feast of reason and the flow of soul ' with which she regales you."... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1882 - 398 pages
...amity all who are either directly or indirectly connected with the Lodge ? We are reminded that — A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men, and it has been proved incontcstibly that those Lodges which lay themselves ont for an occasional day like... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...devil understands Welsh; And '!!•, no marvel, he's so humorous, ft Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. ou unt o. ANONYMOUS. HUNGER. Hunger is sharper than the sword. p. BEAUMONT and FLETCHEB— Tft« Honest Man's... | |
 | Augusta Jane Wilson - 1883 - 380 pages
...edified, Miss Mary. I should beg pardon for such a waste of time and talk, if I were not aware that " ' A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.' " As Mary made no reply, he turned around and regarded her earnestly. Her hat had fallen back from... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it,1 Ibid., 1778. 1 A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. — Anon. 2 It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well Into a Scotch understanding. — Sydney... | |
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These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. 
