The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-05-05
ne clothes is like a gold ring in a fat


mare are always badly shod.
\ thorn i'm mire, hound s tooth and
fools retort are the three sharpes.
things i'm creation
a watched pot never bojls.
y wet and windy May makes strong
barns
= wren in hand is better than a crane
on loan.
A bird in the hand is worth two I'm
the hush.
Beggars. can't be chooeers
Better the end of feast than the be-
ginning of a fray.
Big head little wit.
Cut my head and give me a plaster.
Catch a weasel asleep.
Cheek by jOWl-
Cows far eff have long horns.
Don't keep q dog and bark yourself.
Donald is Thigue's brother. If il ISL!
Bran (Fin-ma-Cool's doE). tbs Bran g.
brother,
Don't put off matching till the storm
is at hand.
Don't tie with your tongue what you
can't loose with your teeth
Eaten bread Is soon forgotten.
Eaten bread is sour.
Everything troubles you, and the cat
breaks your heart.
Fair and easy goes far in day.
PARKWAY hills look green.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse Nae lost.
For want of a man the battle vac
lost.
Go and kill a Hessian for yourself.
God never shuts one door but ha
opens another
God never made a mouth but he made
something to put in it.
Gods help is nearer than the threz-
hold.
Going to the goats house to look for
wool.
Going to law with the devil and the
court held I'm hell
Gold is light with a fool
Half a loaf is better than no bread
Happy iE the bride that sun shines ON.
Happy is the corpse that the rain
rains on.
He cut d rod to whip his own back.
He has too many irons in the fire.
He improves like bad fish i'm July
He lis not strong enough to draw q
herring off the Goals.
He is not cOvetous but he'd faiE have
all
He that is born to be hanged viii
never be drowned.
He was looking at somebody drinking.
He woLld swear a hole through a.
griddle.
He is better fed than taught
He'd skin a flea for its hide and tai
low.
If ifs and ands We're pots and pans,
where would be the use of tukers?
It's an in bird that soils its own nest.
If wishes were horses beggars might
ride
If straws were swords Id have one
by my side.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good.
It's long lane that has no turn.
It's easy to bake with meal at Your
hand.
It's no secret when it's knownto three.
1t wasn't from the wind he got it.
It's to please herself that the cat
sings her cronan.
It's like a singed cat-better than it
looks.
Look before you leap.
Looking for a hound without knowing
its color.
Make a spoon or spoil horn.
Many a shabby colt made a fine
horse
Make a complaint to no one but
friend
Many a day shall We rest in the
grave.
Marry in haste and repent a. leisure.
More holy than cody.
More by chance than good luck.
My son is my son till he takes a wife:
put my daughter is my daughter all
he days of her life
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Never scald your mouth with another
mans pOrTidge.
No fool like an old fool
No force, black pig.
No one knows where the shoe pinches
better than ne who wears it.
No tree but has rotten wood enough
% burn it.
Once paid. never .craved.
One magpie is sorrow. two is mirth,
hree is a wedding and four is a birth
One scabby sheep infects a flock.
One story is good till another is told
Peace be with them as King James
aid to his hounds.
Poverty is no crime: if it were many
one would be hanged.
Putting on the mill the tbatch of the
.iIn.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Right wrongs no man.
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt
D her mouth.
Summer Isl summer till Mfchaelmas
ay; winter is winter till the middle of
lay.
That man has an eye in the back Of
is head
That's the lazy mans load.
That woman won't sell her hen on a
Amy day.
The COW dies while the grass is grow
lg-
The darkest hour is before the dawn.
The devil could not hSld d candle to
i'm.
The foot at rest means nothing.
The longest way round is the shortest
ay home.
The pig is on your back.
The lamb teaching its dam to bleat.
There's nothing sharper than a wO-
.an's tongue.
There never was an old shoe but there
as an Old stocking to match it.
The scanty dish tastes we'll
The smell was strong enough to
neck down a hOrsa.
hill talk (BoastingO
This won't put much fat on my ribs.
Time and l against any two.
To carry water in a seive.
Too much of one thing is good for
,thing.
Two eyes are better than one.
Wash your dirty linen in the house.
We brought the summer with us
We never miss the water till the well
ms dry.
What can you expect from a pig but
grunt.
When a man is down. down with
N.
What can't be had is just twilgt is
shed for.
What the devil gives with one hand
takes with the other.
What your neighbor gets you never
e.
Words are but wird, but blows are
kind
lou are as stiff as if you had outmeaI
sell.