Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
Modesty died when clothes were born.
Modesty died when false modesty was born.
Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Like the violet, which alone
Prospers in some happy shade,
My Castara lives unknown
To no looser eye betrayed.
Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin's throwin' their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw 'em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.
Cui pudor et justitise soror incorrupta fides
nudaque Veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.
Modesty becomes a young man.
Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim
Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's.
When one remains modest, not after praise
but after blame, then is he really so.
Jean Paul Richter—Hesperus. 12.
Can,it be
That modesty may more betray our sense
Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there?
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
Da locum melioribus.
Give place to your betters.
Terence—Phormio. III. 2. 37.
He saw her charming, but he saw not half
The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
Thomson—The Seasons. Autumn. L. 229.
MONEY
(See also Gold, Mammon)
Up and down the City Road,
In and out the Eagle,
That's the way the money goes—
Pop goes the weasel!
Popular street song in England' in the late
Fifties, sung at the Grecian Theatre. Attributed to W. R. Mandale.
Money makes the man.
Aristodemus. SeeALC*us—Fragment. Miseel. Songs.
L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un michant mattre.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Quoted by Bacon. (French Proverb.) In
Menegiana. II. 296. 1695.
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
The sinews of business (or state).
Bion. In Life of Bion by Diogenes Laertius Bk. IV. Ch. VII. Sec. 3.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
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| text = <poem>Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh riot the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque conOf modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;—
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and
sometimes has no value at all and even less.
Carlyle—Frederick the Great. Bk. IV. Ch III.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
George Chapman—Eastward Ho. Sc. 1. Act I. (Written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston.)
