Year: 1875

herd the lamb has come to grief.


One thing acquired with pain is
better than a hundred with ease.


Let the grapes pray for the well
fare Of the branches without
branches there would be no grapes.
Silence is beautifulin a wise man
but how much more in a fool.


More than the calf wishes to
drink, the cow wishes to give it
suck.
If they tell you that your friend
is dead, believe it; that he has
come into a fortune, doubt it.


An ass feels chilly in July.
| He who lends money to the
poor is often better than he who
gives them aims.


Here is table, and meat, and
knives but we have no mouths to
! eat.


| Be prudent and be silent.


The world is like the wheel of
the we'll, with it's two buckets .;
the full one is ever emptied, and
the empty one is ever filled.


A quarrel is like squirt of wa-
ter issuing from q cleft wider
and wider gets the cleft, more and
more powerful the squirt.


Here is the sack, the corn ard
the money; now you 60 and meas
ure.


He who has been legally depriv-
ed of his illgotten garment should
go his way rejoicing.


lie who has learnt and does not
teach is like myrtle in the des-
ert.


There is q threefold death in
the slanderer's tongue it kills
him who slanders, him who is
slandered, and him who receives
the slander.


Some peoples judgment is that
of blind man at a window.


You cannot touch a fool; a dead
mans body does not feel the knife.


For man who has been ruined
bya woman, there is 90 Law and no
judge.


Many an arrowsmith is shot by
his own arrow.


Greater is he who causes good
deeds than he who does them.


Great is peace it is to the land
what lcaVen is to the dough.


He who struts about the market
in the philosophers toga will not
come into the dwelling place of
God.


Where song Goy of life) is dead,
q hundred geese may be had for a
brass farthing and a hundred BUSH
els Of wheat for the asking; but no
one asks.


Woman spins her little web
while she talks.


Throw no stones into tho we'll
whence you have drunk.


A small allowance at home is
much better than a large one
abroad.


He is a bookcase not scholar.


Cut off his head but mind you
don't kill him.


It is the hole that makes the
thief.


When the camel kicks the scor-
pion away with its heel, the scor-
pion swears that the camel shall
perceive it in its head.


In his own house the weaver is
king.


The.,salt of money is almsgiv-
ing.


A hundred shillings invested in
trade will give a man meat and
wine; in acres it will give him
cabbage and salt.


To move from one house into
another costs a garment; from
one country into another, a life.


When the axe already touches
the neck, still hope in Gods saving
grace.


Flight is the beginning Of de-
feat.


Hang the sweetest grass arouud
a pigs neck, it will still 60 and
wallow in it's native mirc.
The lives of three are no lives
that of tho too compassionate, ot
the man with a temper, and the
misanthrope.
Three men arc beloved by God
he who is Of sweet temper, be
who is moderate in his habits
and he who does not always obsti
nately adhere to his first re
solves.


Poor is only he who likes com
mon sense.
If the old people tell you to pul
down, and the young ones to builc
r up, pull down.
You must not drink out of ont
cup and look at another.


lie who cannot moderate hi!
grief will soou have q new grief tt
mourn over.