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Updated: June 26, 2025
So, for a few years, had the English thought of themselves; but with a difference; for their spirit was that expressed in the later Puritan adage, "Trust in God and keep your powder dry". The Spaniard had neglected to keep his powder dry. The nation which observes both injunctions is tolerably certain to defeat that which observes only one.
There is no adage more true than the old Latin one "that what we wish, we readily believe;" so, I had little difficulty in convincing myself that all was as I desired although, certainly, my confused memory of the past evening contributed little to that conviction.
These young people seek specific, practical information that will give them insight. They are eager to keep to the pathway leading not only to a satisfying marriage but to a marriage whose meaning goes forward along with our advancing civilization. Dr. James L. McConaughy Now That You Are Engaged "Love is blind," says the adage. "Love should be open-eyed and wise," say the modern engaged couple.
The only one that comes to me now, as possibly of the old French days, is one which is preserved in an adage not at all French but quite characteristic of the independent life that has occupied the banks of all the rivers: "Paddle your own canoe."
This feeling the mother of Constance found to prevail wherever she went, and she never attributed the coolness of fashionable acquaintances, nor the gradual falling away of more intimate friends, to any other than the right cause. How could she? In her case the adage was true to the letter "A guilty conscience needs no accusation."
Walters, whose legal training had imbued in him a respect for Latin tags, subscribed to the adage, de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Believe me, Alexander, I speak of what I know, not of what I suspect. Accept the fact, if you will not be warned. You always underrate your enemies. Your confidence in your own genius a confidence which so much has occurred to warrant blinds you to the power of others. Remember the old adage: Pride goeth before a fall although I despise the humble myself; the world owes nothing to them.
"In time of peace prepare for war" is a good adage, but the reverse is also true. Peaceful pursuits are of a necessity carried out even in the face of the enemy. At "evening quarters" new hammocks were doled out, and all hands were instructed to scrub the old ones next morning and turn them in.
All things, says an old adage, are to be hoped for by a man whilst he lives; ay, but, replies Seneca, why should this rather be always running in a man's head that fortune can do all things for the living man, than this, that fortune has no power over him that knows how to die?
In their domestic industry the Massachusetts people found by experience that "many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all"; and they were shrewd enough to apply the adage in keeping the scale of their industrial units within the frugal requirements of their lives.
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