Paired Proverbs #5?
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Flattery will get you nowhere.
Praise is always pleasant.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
God defend me from my friends.
Genius is born, not made.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God helps those who help themselves.
Good guys finish last.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but time
and chance happen to them all.
A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.
A young man married is a man that's marred.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Grown men don't cry.
Let yourself go.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Never do anything by halves.
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
Hang loose.
If you have time to kill, work it to death.
Hard work never killed anybody.
Take it easy.
He that fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
He who hesitates is lost.
Look before you leap.
Help yourself.
Share and share alike.
Hitch you wagon to a star.
Keep both feet on the ground.
Honesty is the best policy.
The truth hurts.
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
There but for the grace of God go I.
Regards,
Debbie
Ben Trovato
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>God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
>God helps those who help themselves.
>
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The first of these is often thought to be proverbial but it is not
--at least as worded here. It is from Laurence Sterne's _Sentimental
Journey through France and Italy_, a characteristially
delicate-indelicate novel which never reaches Italy, and ends with a
dash in mid-sentence. Here, I hope, is just enough context to convey
Sterne's singular flavor.
"She had since that, she told me, strayed as far as Rome, and
walk'd round St Peters once--and return'd back-- that she found
her way alone across the Apennines-- had travell'd over all
Lombardy without money-- and through the flinty roads of Savoy
without shoes--how she had borne it, and how she had got
supported, she could not tell--but God tempers the wind, said
Maria, to the shorn lamb.
" Shorn indeed! and to the quick, said I; and wast thou in my own
land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it and shelter
thee: thou shouldst eat of my own bread, and drink of my own
cup--I would be kind to thy Sylvio--in all thy weaknesses and
wanderings I would seek after thee and bring thee back-- when the
sun went down I would say my prayers; and when I had done thou
shouldst play thy evening song upon thy pipe, nor would the
incense of my sacrifice be worse accepted for entering heaven
along with that of a broken heart."
--
Ben Trovato
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David C. Kifer
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> OK, Dave, here are a few more:
I love it, I love it! How many more do you have? :-)>
You might be interested to know that my collection is getting
larger than I ever expected.
Plain old anonymous proverbs and such, 218 pairs, of the type:
Don't blow your own horn.
It's a poor dog that won't wag its own tail.
Attributed short quotes, 25-30 pairs (I'm not sure some of them
actually go together the way the others do), which include
several Biblical pairs:
It is a wise child that knows his own father.--Homer
It is a wise father that knows his own child.--William Shakespeare
They shall beat their swords into plowshares. -- Isaiah 2:4
Beat your plowshares into swords. -- Joel 3:10
Foreign languages, 4 pairs:
"Sapientiam vino adumbrari" -- Wisdom is obscured by wine.
"In vino veritas." -- Truth in drunkenness.
Even a few *naughty* pairs:
Shit floats to the top.
Shit rolls downhill.
:-)>
> I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
> There but for the grace of God go I.
I *do* like that one. "Invictus* is one of the few non-Kipling
verses I keep around...
Thank you again, Debbie, you have been an immense help to me!
I also have a list of 25 or so proverbs I am still trying to
match to opposing proverbs. Here are a few of those:
A man is known by the company he keeps.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
As you make your bed so must you lie in it.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Never give a sucker an even break.
No man is an island.
No news is good news.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Still waters run deep.
There are lots of fish in the sea.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Paul Mc Cann
says...
Empty vessels make most sound ?
> There are lots of fish in the sea.
> Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
>
>
--
Paul Mc Cann
Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyperverbosity or prolixity.
The Sanity Inspector
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>Don't blow your own horn.
>It's a poor dog that won't wag its own tail.
A more apposite companion for that first one would be:
If a man tooteth not his own horn, yea, verily the same horn usually
shall not be tooted
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
Pekka P. Pirinen
> I also have a list of 25 or so proverbs I am still trying to
> match to opposing proverbs. Here are a few of those:
> It's always darkest before the dawn.
The light at the end of the tunnel is just an oncoming train.
> As you make your bed so must you lie in it.
It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest.
> Brevity is the soul of wit.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
> Still waters run deep.
Sometimes it's better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to
open your mouth and remove all doubt.
> There are lots of fish in the sea.
A bird in hand is better than ten in the bush.
--
Pekka P. Pirinen
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Dolores
[snipped]
> A bird in hand is better than ten in the bush.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...
but the bird in the bush sings.
---Dolores
David C. Kifer
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> "David C. Kifer" <dki...@sky-access.com> writes:
> > I also have a list of 25 or so proverbs I am still trying to
> > match to opposing proverbs. Here are a few of those:
>
> A bird in hand is better than ten in the bush.
Thank you, Pekka!
These are most helpful!
It's a free country.
There ought to be a law.
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SteveMR200
<dki...@sky-access.com> wrote:
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>I also have a list of 25 or so proverbs I am still trying to
>match to opposing proverbs. Here are a few of those:
>Brevity is the soul of wit.
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying
"I love you." When someone's saying "I love you," he always
ought to give a lot of details: Like, Why does he love you? And,
How much does he love you? And, When and where did he
first begin to love you? Favorable comparisons with all the other
women he ever loved are also welcomed. And even though he
insists it would take forever to count the ways in which he loves
you, let him start counting.
--Judith Viorst
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Steve