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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones." A man who makes a great show without a corresponding practice is said to be like "fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire," and another adage says: "Peel a fig for your friend, and a peach for your enemy." This proverb, however, is not quite clear when applied to this country.
Many were the entreaties to Ralph to hurry with his work; but, fully believing the old adage that "haste makes waste," he completed his operations with deliberation, only hurrying when he could do so without running any risk of a failure. "Be quick, Ralph," cried George, as he came up, smoke begrimed, and bearing many traces of his severe work.
She refused to give any decided answer, but requested a day or two for reflection; and the vicar, who recollected the adage, that, in an affair of the heart, "the woman who deliberates is lost," left her with a happy presage that his endeavours would be crowned with success. But Mrs Rainscourt would not permit her own heart to decide.
This seems to be a very distinct announcement that remedies are themselves causes of disease. And yet again: "In the administration of medicines we cure one disease by producing another." This is both important and true. Professor Paine quotes approvingly the famous professional adage, in good technical Latin, "Ubi virus, ibi vitus,"
Ah! but I loved the strawberry I loved the fields where it grew, I loved the birds that sang there, and the flowers that bloomed there, and I loved my mother who sent me forth to gather the berries; I loved all the rural sights and sounds, I felt near them, so that when, in after years, I came to write my essay I had only to obey the old adage which sums up all of the advice which can be given in these matters, "Look in thy heart and write."
But I was soon sighing for that safety which the adage associates with numbers. We were far too few for the confidential duologue with one's neighbor in which I, at least, would have taken refuge from the perils of a general conversation.
"You told me," said the girl in good English, the first words she had spoken. "I told you?" he cried. The Italian girl had a fit of uncontrollable laughter. "Have you forgotten the old adage, Mr. Isburn, that it is a good plan to set a thief to catch a thief?" Isburn sank into a chair. "Can I believe my ears? Miss Dana?" "Exactly," said the young woman. "This is one of my make-ups.
And a straight line is not the shortest way for strategy. Or exchange with your opponent, give what seems valuable for what is valuable and then fall back on the adage, "A fair exchange is no robbery." Third, there is persuasion. Here, by stirring your opponent into friendliness, he talks matters over, he aligns his interest with yours. Compromise is the keynote, coöperation the watchword.
There is an old adage, worn almost threadbare with continual use, "When poverty looks in at the door, love flies out at the window," and, doubtless, there is an element of truth in the saying; nevertheless, though there were lines of care on Marcus Luttrell's face, and in the strong sunlight the seams of his wife's black gown looked a little shiny, there was still peace, and the patience of a great and enduring affection in the corner house at Galvaston Terrace.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip," was the reply. "Too true an adage," I felt. "I'm sure I've found it so in my course through life." We, meantime, stood in-shore to look for our boats. The night closed in without our meeting with them, till at length we became seriously alarmed for their safety.
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