Proverbs and Their Lessons: Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and ElsewhereTrench, Richard Chenevix
Philosophy
Proverbs and Their Lessons: Being the Subject of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere
Trench, Richard Chenevix
Proverbs
[60] Gli amici legono la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo.
[61] Ad un uomo dabbene avanza la metà del cervello; ad un tristo non
basta ne anche tutto.
[62] Jeremy Taylor appears to have found much delight in the proverbs
of Italy. In the brief foot notes which he has appended to the _Holy
Living_ alone I counted five and twenty such, to which he makes more
or less remote allusion in the text. There is an excellent article on
“Tuscan Proverbs” in _Fraser’s Magazine_, Jan. 1857.
[63] _Arabic Proverbs of the Modern Egyptians._ London: 1830.
[64] Yet this very mournful collection of Burckhardt’s possesses at
least one very beautiful proverb on the all conquering power of love:
_Man is the slave of beneficence_.
[65] En casa del Moro no hables algarabia.
[66] Sermon sin Agostino, olla sin tocino.
[67] Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass.
[68] Doctor Luther’s Schuhe sind nicht allen Dorfpriestern gerecht.
[69] Cum duplicantur lateres, Moses venit.
[70] La gente pone, y Dios dispone.—Der Mensch denkt’s; Gott lenkt’s.
[71] La padella dice al pajuolo, Fatti in là, che tu mi tigni.
[72] Dijó la corneja al cuervo, Quítate allá, negro.
[73] Ein Esel schimpft den andern, Langohr.
[74] Γλαῦκας εἰς Ἀθήνας.
[75] Wer sich auf der Achsel sitzen lässt, dem sitzt man nachher auf
dem Kopfe.
[76] Se ti lasci metter in spalla il vitello, quindi a poco ti metteran
la vacca.
[77] Dame donde me asiente, que yo haré donde me acueste.
[78] Qui se fait brebis, le loup le mange.
[79] There is a Catalan proverb to the same effect: Qui de tot es moll,
de tot es foll.
[80] Autant pèche celui qui tient le sac, que celui qui met dedans.
[81] Wer die Leiter hält, ist so schuldig wie der Dieb.
[82] Quien no adoba gotera, adoba casa entera.
[83] Benedetto è quel male, che vien solo.—Un mal è la vigilia
dell’altro.—Un male ed un Frate di rado soli.
[84] Al villano, se gli porgi il dito, ei prende la mano.
[85] Dieu donne le froid selon le drap.—Cada cual siente el frio como
anda vestido.
[86] Cui serpe mozzica, lucerta teme.
[87] El rio passado, el santo olvidado.
[88] Passato il punto, gabbato il santo.
LECTURE IV.
THE POETRY, WIT, AND WISDOM OF PROVERBS.
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