A MIXED BAG.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 11

A MIXED BAG.

PROVERB was defined on one oe- ' easiou ns the wisdom of many and the wit of one. The following wise and witty sayings are common as proverbs in various countries:— Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables. Things don’t turn up. They must be turned up. Economy is the easy chair of old age. The promised land is the land where one is not.- —English. Lock your door and keep your neighbours honest. Please yourself and you ’ll please somebody.—-Scottish. Live in my heart and pay no rent. Never scald your lips with another man \s porridge.—lrish. Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time. All the world’s a camera—look plea sant, please. There are two sides to every question —the wrong side and our side. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage; half shut afterwards. If you can’t push, pull; if you can’t' pull, please get out of the way.—American. He that stirs poison will taste it. Ask the opinion of an older one and a younger one than thyself, and return to thine own opinion.—Egyptian. Money is round and rolls easily.— Roumanian. You are master of the unspoken word; the spoken word is the master of you. The heart that-loves is always young. Wisdom is made up of ten parts, nine of which are silence, and the tenth is brevity of language.—Arabic and Talmud. If Fate throws a knife at you there are two ways of catching it—by the blade and by the handle. In buying horses and in taking a wife shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God. Ho who offends writes on sand; he who is qffended on marble. —Oriental, Tuscan and Italian. Begin in other people’s way so as to end by having' your own way. Woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. —Spanish.