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They contain a great deal of pleasant matter; and the letters are evidently, in general, the work of a higher order of persons than the world has often an opportunity of seeing in their deshabille. The Persian proverb, which accounted for the fragrance of a pebble by its having lain beside the rose, has been in some degree realized in these pages.
There is a proverb which says that in Ecija every man is a thief and every woman no better than she should be: I was not disinclined to believe it. I set out, guided by a sign-post, and the good road seemed to promise an easy day. They had told me that the distance was only six leagues, and I expected to arrive before luncheon.
"For," says Mr. Johnson, "though I do not quite agree with the proverb, that Nullum numen adest si sit prudentia, yet we may very well say, that Nullum numen adest, ni sit prudentia." It has since appeared. Miss Burney mentions meeting Dr. Harington at Bath in 1780. D'Arblay's Diary, i. 341. 'For though they are but trifles, thou Some value didst to them allow. Martin's Catullus, p. 1.
I do not yet know what it will be about, but it is impossible that I should disappoint you; and if the proverb says, "Needs must when the devil drives," I can mend the proverb into a show of grace, and say, The most barren earth must needs bear flowers when an angel sows the seed.
The full mead barrel was emptied, and a fresh one brought in; for these were people who liked to enjoy all things plentifully. The old proverb was indeed well known, which says, "The cattle know when they should quit the pasture, but a foolish man knoweth not the measure of his own appetite." Yes, they knew it well enough; but one knows one thing, and one does another.
It never rains but it pours, according to the proverb; so very speedily another chance occurred, by which Mr. Pen was to be helped in his scheme of making a livelihood. Warrington one day threw him a letter across the table, which was brought by a printer's boy, "from Captain Shandon, sir" the little emissary said: and then went and fell asleep on his accustomed bench in the passage.
Reference is made in this story by the devil himself to the popular saying that the devil is not so black as he is painted. Even the devout George Herbert wrote “We paint the devil black, yet he Hath some good in him all agree.” This story recalls to us the proverb: “Talk of the devil, and he will either come or send.”
I 've a chance to get, a post in one of the West African companies. One makes fortunes out there if one survives, and, as you know, I don't set too much store by life." "We have a proverb," said Shelton, "'A bird in the hand is worth two birds in the bush!" "That," returned Ferrand, "like all proverbs, is just half true. This is an affair of temperament.
A flower is sometimes as pure a satisfaction as a man or the thought of an archangel. It passes into a proverb that the beggar is happier than a king, and proverbs are only the homely disguises in which wisdom roams the world.
"I think I have heard Cleveland say that you will be rich some day or other." "O yes: I have what are called expectations! You must know that I have a kind of settlement on two stools, the Well-born and the Wealthy; but between two stools you recollect the proverb! The present Lord Saxingham, once plain Frank Lascelles, and my father, Mr. Ferrers, were first cousins.
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