| Old English Proverb
Posted: 4/27/2008 9:02:28 PM | If wishes were horses then beggars would ride, if turnips wore swords,
I'd have one by my side. If if's and hands were pots and pans, there
would be no need for tinker's hands.
- John Ray's Collection of Proverbs (1670) | |
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| Old English Proverb
Posted: 4/28/2008 6:44:35 AM | Turnips - My least favorite food.
If turnips were swords, I'd be without... | |
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| Old English Proverb
Posted: 4/28/2008 10:11:49 PM | It is a foolish sheep that make the wolf his counselor.
Anger dieth quickly with a good man.
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty.
In times of adversity not one among twenty.
Valor can do but little without discretion.
John Ray(1628-1705) | |
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| Old English Proverb
Posted: 4/28/2008 10:22:16 PM | Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues, because,unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
I have heard you mentioned as a man whom everybody likes. I think life has little more to give.
Of all the griefs that harass the distressed,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) | |
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