PROVERBS PROVIDENCE
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Tirer les marrons de la patte du chat.
To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the
cat's paw. .
Moliere—L'Etourdi. Act III. 6.
Turn over a new leaf.
Burke—Letter to Miss Haviland. Thos. Dekker—The Honest Whore. Pt. II. Act II.
Sc. 1. Also A Health to the Gentlemanly Professional Serving-Men. (1598) MmDLETON
—Anything for a Quiet Life. Act III. Sc. 3.
Two heads are better than one.
Hetwood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IX.
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| text = Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
Swift—Pastoral Dialogue: L. 7. Hazlitt—
English Proverbs, etc. (Ed. 1869) P. 446.
Wode has erys, felde has sigt.
King Edward and the Shepherd, MS. (Circa
1300)
Felde hatb eyen, and wode hath eres.
Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Knight's
Tale. L. 1,522.
Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.
Hetwood—Proverbes. Pt. II. Ch. V.
Westward-ho!
Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 146.
What is bred in the bone will never come out
of the flesh.
Pilpat—The Two Fishermen. Fable XIV.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred
in the bone.
Jonson—Every Man in his Humour. Act I.
Sc. 1.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him
surely.
Goethe—Herman and Dorothea. Canto III.
L. 3.
'
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for a
gander.
Tom Brown—New Maxims. P. 123.
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| text = <poem>What is the matter with Kansas?
W. A. White. Title of an editorial in the
Emporia Gazette, August 15, 1896.
What mare's nest hast thou found?
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Bonduca. IV. 2.
What you would not have done to yourselves,
never do unto others.
Alexander Severus. See also "Golden Rule."
Matthew. VII. 12.
When a dog is drowning, every one offers him
drink.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the
table.
Quoted in American Scholar by Emerson. Attributed to The McGregor, a Highland
Chief.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone
hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
| author = Cervantes—DonQuixote. Vol. II. Ch. XLHI.
Which he by hook or crook has gather'd
And by his own inventions father'd.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto I. L.
109. See also "By hooke or crooke."
Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.
Burns—Whistle, and I'll Come to You.
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Whistle, and she'll come to you.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Wit Without
Money. Act IV. Sc. 4.
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Socrates.
With tooth and nail.
Du Bartas—Divine Weekes and Worhes.
First Week. Second Day.
Within a stone's throw of it.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. I. Bk. III.
Ch. LX.
Whose house is of glass, must Dot throw stones
at another.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Epictetus—Discourses. Ch. XXI.
You shall never want rope enough.
Rabelais—Works. Prologue to the Fifth Book.
You whirled them to the back of beyont.
Scott—Antiquary.
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PROVIDENCE
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Fear not, but trust in Providence,
Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly—The Pilot.
But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = The Maid's Tragedy. Act V. Sc. 4.
If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
William Browne—Visions. Ch. V.
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.
Robert Browning—Paracelsus. Pt. I.
