Proverbs; Or, The Manual of Wisdom: Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Best English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Other Proverbs. To which are Subjoined the Wise Sayings, Precepts, Maxims, and Reflections of the Most Illustrious Ancients ...Tabart and Company, 1804 - 146 sidor |
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Sida 51 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says, I never saw an oft removed Tree, Nor yet an oft removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Sida 6 - A woman that loves to be at the window, is like a bunch of grapes on the highway.
Sida 59 - In an old piece of proverbial wisdom a man is strictly enjoined to keep himself " from the anger of a great man, from the tumult of a mob, from a man of ill fame, from a widow that has been thrice married, from wind that cometh in at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy ; " and an old Chinese proverb warns us how " Slanders cluster round a widow's door.
Sida 32 - He who makes other Men afraid of his Wit, had need be afraid of their Memories. . Riches are but the Baggage of Virtue.
Sida 51 - In brief, acquit thee bravely ; play the man. Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. Defer not the least virtue : life's poor span Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains : If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
Sida 37 - He who abandons his poor kindred, God forfakes him. He who is not handfome at twenty, nor ftrong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wife at fifty, will never be handforr.e, ftrong, rich, nor wife. He who refolves on the fudden, repents at leifure. He who rifes late lofes his prayers, and provides not well for his houfe. He wh» peeps through a hole may fee what will vex him.
Sida 51 - If the best man's faults were written in his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Sida 30 - He is a fool who cannot be angry ; but he is a wise man who will not.
Sida 15 - Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion ;' ie the first of the yeomanry rather than the last of the gentry.
Sida 92 - Tell me what company you keep and I will tell you what you are ' ; and the other one, ' Not with whom you are bred, but with whom you are fed.