The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-26
Old Proverbs.


collection of the proverbs and proverbial
phrases of all the nations, illustrated and
compared and arranged with respect to
the subject they treat of and with COM
plcte index at the end of the work by
aid of which any proverb can be easily
found The volume contains such
store of the unique, pertinent, pithy say
ings as the curious will be glad TO exam
anime. We will give a few examples
Almost the first adage we fnd is the fol-
lowing couplet, which, we are glad to
say, the editor pronounees as barbar
Gus"
"a spaniel, a woman, and walnut tree,
The more they re beaten the better they be-
And the Scotch:
.Ye may ding the dell into wife, but ye'l meier
ding h m out o he.
And, again
g The mans fool who thinks, by force skill,
To stem the torrent Of woman's wii
For if she WILL she will, you may depend OF,
And she won't she won land that's the end ont
which seems to be the greatest praise
upon the fair sex, without it be the
Spaniards:
"A wonan's counsel is no great thing but he
who does not take it is fool
Turning over we find:
None so deaf as he that will not hear"
which seems to contain the whole philos-
ophy of the inclnations. To illustrate
the philosophy of human nature, the fol-
| lowing is, perhaps, better truth than
poetry:
Stolen sweets ALWAYS sweeter;
Stoolen kisses compleIer:
Stolen looks nice i'll chapes
Stolen, stolen be your apples
the pith of which seems o~bescontained
in the one simple line:
Forbidden fruit is sweet
Here is an adage oft repeated and often
applicable:
warm it will bite you.''
/ This is touch at g faults" not alto
gether Irrelevant:
"A guilty conscience needs accuser."
And the Scotch:
.. He that has "A muckle nose thinks ilka one is
speaking o't."
And here is fling at hypocrisy:
t '' The words of saint, and claws of cat"
/ And the Spanish and Arabian:
/ "Many kiss the hands they. would fain see
chopped off"
/ 1T is said:
! &Hope is good breakfast, but bad supper"
bht,
! 90 Live, horse, and you'll get grass"
IS very ungraeiously upset by,
Hope and expectations are fools income. y
Experience is set forth as the mistress
of fouls in the old aud much used
" A burnt child breads the fire -
aud again the very kernel is contained
| in
"a Bought wit is the best"
/ ''0ld birds not caught with chaf'
The lawyer gets some pretty hard
cracks:
The greater the lawyer the less the christian
:. Fair aud softly as the lawyers go heaven
| And again, the Danish:
80 Virtue in the middle said Satan as he sat
/ between two attorneys"
The physician does not escape:
Every man at forty is either fool or ply
/ sician.''
at is God that cures, and the doctor gets the
money
'' Shun doctors and doctors drugs if you wish
/ to do WE'LL
The following who has not proved?
Sudden friendship, repentance"
" Old friends and old wine the best
An ejaculation often called forth by
ihdlscreetness in forming friendships
:" Save me from my friends =
not true, but ostensible friends, who can.
not stand the test, and prove
"a friend in need is friend indeed''
But who will doubt the truth of the
couplet:
g In times of prosperity friends will be plenty
In times OF adversely not one in twenty