SOME ODD PROVERBS

Evening Star, Issue 19890, 12 June 1928, Page 8

SOME ODD PROVERBS

“i)r Ciirney Champion, a IJuurneinoutli medical mail/’ says tlie ‘ Keening News,’ of London. •• is a .student of queer proverbs of all (he world; lie lias collected ]O,(jUO in eighty languages altogether, ami is still collecting; of those he lias now fiUU are Chinese and 400 negro. As an Aral) Raving has it— 1 A proverb is to speech what salt is to fowl.’ ” Mere arc a tew contributed by the doctor to the 1 Evening News ’: — 11 A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”—Chinese. " Palings weren't fixed for climbing over.”—West Indian Negro. 11 The cad man rose to enjoy himself. but found no room.” Egyptian. 11 Live in my heart and pay no rent.” —lrish. I: In the ant's house dew is a deluge.”—Persian, 11 The man who confesses hi? ignorance shows it once: the man who tries to conceal it shows it many times."—

Japanese. “ A book is like a. garden carried in the pocket.”—Arabian. ‘‘Tin plate don’t mind dropping on the floor.”—American Negro.

“As long as a man builds lie Jives.” —Turkish. “Some smart lojks can’t tell n rotten rail without sitting on it.”—West Indian Negro.