SOME OLD PROVERBS.

Matamata Record, Volume XI, Issue 933, 2 July 1928, Page 5

SOME OLD PROVERBS.

“Dr Gurney Champion, a Bournemouth medical man,” says the Evening News of London, “is a student of queer proverbs of all the world; he has collected 10,000 in eighty languages altogether, and is still collecting; of those he has now 600 are Chinese and 400 negro. As an Arab say(ing has it—‘A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.’ ” Here are a few contributed to the Evening News by the doctor: — “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”—Chinese. “Palings weren’t fixed for climbing over.” —West Indian Negro. “The sad man rose to enjoy himself, but found no room.”—Egyptian. “Live ini my heart and pay no rent.”—lrish. “In the ant’s house dew is a deluge.”—Persian. “The man who confesses his ignorance shows it at 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 he lives.” Turkish. “Some smart folks can’t tell a rotten rail without sitting on it.”—West Indian Negro.