CLEVER PROVERBS

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 22 February 1926, Page 4

CLEVER PROVERBS

CONDENSED WIT AND WISDOM. A proverb was defined on one oecasion as 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 casj; chair of old age. The promised land is the land where one is not.—English. Lock your door and keep your neighbour 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 pleasant, 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 w T ay. —American. _ _ , He that stirs poison will taste it. Ask the opinion of an older one and a younger one thau thyself, and return to thine own opinion.—Egyptian. Money is round and rolls easily.—Burn aniau. It is better for a woman to marry the man rvho loves her than mate with the man she loves. You arc master of the unspoken word i —the jspokon word is sthe master of you. He who knows not that he knows not is a fool —shun him. He who knows that he knows not is wise—teach him. 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. i If Fate throws a knife at you there are two ways of catching it —by the blade and by the handle. In buying a horse and in taking a wife shut your eyes tight and commend yourself to God. Woman is like your .shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. —Spanish. Begin in other people’s way so as to end by having your own way.