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Let us continue with Proverbs on Proverb….
Nothing tells us more of the spirit of a people than its proverbs.
Patch grief with proverbs (Much ado about nothing- Shakespeare)
Short sentences into which as in rules, the ancients have compressed life (Johann agricola, 1558)
Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ags were the unwritten laws of morality-Isaac Disraeli
Grounding their fat faiths upon old country proverbs- Beaumont and Fletcher, 1639
I said that I loved the wise proverb
Brief, simple and deep;
For it I would exchange the great poem
That sends us to sleep.
I would part with the talk of a neighbour
That wearies the brain,
Like the rondo that reaches the end,
And beginneth again- Byran Waller Proctor
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs- Francis Bacon
The Peope’s voice and Voice of God we call; and what are proverbs but the people’s voice? Coined first and current made by common choice. Then sure they must have weight and truth withal (Preface to collection of Proverbs, Howell)
The Proverb is something musty (Hamlet, Shakespeare)
The Proverbs of a nation are the great book which it is easy to read its character-Paxton Hood
The wit of one man; the wisdom of many- Lord John Russel.
There is often more true spiritual force in a Proverb than in a philosophical system- Thomas Calyle.
Hang’ em
They said they were an hungry signed forth Proverbs;
That, hung er broke stone walls;
That, dogs must eat;
That, meat was made for mouths;
That, the gods sent not corn for the rich man only;- with theses shreds they vented their complainings (Coriolanus, Shakespeare)
But then their saving pennies proverb becomes-Porter, 1599.
The guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart (Mr Morley’s Definition of Proverbs)
It is wise and sooth fast saw
Half roasted never will be raw,
No dough is baked again to meal
No crock re-shapen at the wheel;
And having tasted stolen honey
You cant but innocence for money -Sir Arthur Pinero.
The wise make proverbs and the fools repeat them- Issac Disraeli.
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms- Lord Chesterfield
English language quotes finished; next Irish
To be continued…………..
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