PROVERBS FROM FAR AND NEAR, Wise Sentences, &c. COLLATED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM TEGG, Editor of the "Mixture for Low Spirits," "Cruet Stand," HEC "Proverbs existed before books. ISAAC D'ISRAELI LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG & CO., PANCRAS LANE, CHEAPSIDE. MDCCCLXXV. 270. g. bag PREFACE. "PROVERBS FRom Far and NEAR," is the title I have selected for this little volume. I have been wide afield in my search, and have gleaned them from the pages of Ray, Fuller, Grose, and many another worthy, some well, some scarcely, known. In the selection now presented to the Public the greatest care has been exercised to exclude those, which, witty as they might have been considered in past times, and significant though they are, would not be tolerated in the present age from their want of harmony with the tone of our modern tastes and culture. Space will not permit me to enter into the history, or origin of proverbs; but as no writer has, to my mind, written so much to the purpose as Isaac D'Israeli in his "Philosophy of Proverbs," I may be pardoned for quoting his words :— "Proverbs have ceased to be studied, or employed in "Proverbs embrace the wide sphere of human existence, The Proverbs are placed in alphabetical order, PANCRAS LANE, 1875. WILLIAM TEGG. PROVERBS FROM FAR AND NEAR. A bad padlock invites a picklock. A bad thing never dies. A bad workman never gets a good tool. A barber learneth to shave by shaving of fools. A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. A black man is a jewel in a fair woman's eye. A blunt wedge will do it, where sometimes a sharp axe will not. A blow with a reed makes a noise, but hurts not. A book that is shut is but a block. A brave retreat is a brave exploit. A broken friendship may be solder'd, but will never be sound. A bushel of March dust, on the leaves, is worth a king's ransom. A calm is most welcome after a storm. A carper can cavil at any thing. A cat may look upon a king. A charitable man is the true lover of God. A clear conscience can bear any trouble. A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. |