All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

"The adage of the early bird, My soul from infancy has stirred, And since the worm I sorely need I'll practise, now, that thrifty creed.

Often have I thought of that excellent old adage; He that eats the king's goose, shall be choked with his feathers.

the adage must be verified That beggars mounted run their horse to death.

"Laugh and grow fat," is an old adage; and Sterne tells us, that every time a man laughs, he adds something to his life.

The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy pioneers who braved hardship and ridicule in order to obtain a foothold in this promised land, have, in five or six years, completely changed the appearance of the country.

Piero's character and career again prove the truth of the adage: "Ability rarely runs in two successive generations."

From this came the adage, 'The soup in the great pot and the dainties in the hotch-potch.'

According to a popular adage, garlic was the medicine (thériaque) of peasants; town-people for a long time greatly appreciated aillée, which was a sauce made of garlic, and sold ready prepared in the streets of Paris.

But the adage about the will and the way is of such wondrous universality, that one successful effort seems as nothing in the diversity of man's inventions; and so it turned out to be comparatively easy to get Janet out one evening for the reason that her husband did not feel very well, and would like his supper the better for a walk along the edge of the loch, in which, if it was her pleasure, she would not refuse to accompany him.

Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that "A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country."

Pesquiera was well aware of the adage that "dead men tell no tales."

Cast off God's gift of manhood, And, like the dog in the adage, drop the true bone With snapping at the sham one in the water?

Forgetting the old adage about selling the skin of the bear while the animal was still alive, it was further agreed that Colaba, after capture, was to be the property of Portugal, while Gheriah was to be handed over to the English.

So hardy, great, and strong, That after of that name it to an adage grew, If any man himself adventurous happed to shew, "Bold Beauchamp" men him termed, if none so bold as he.

The old adage says that a man cannot burn the candle at both ends; like most proverbs, it is only partially true, for often the hardest worker is the man who enters with most zest into his recreations, and this was emphatically the case with Mr. Dodgson.

In their domestic industry the Massachusetts people found by experience that "many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all"; and they were shrewd enough to apply the adage in keeping the scale of their industrial units within the frugal requirements of their lives.

"There is much truth in the old adage that fire is a better servant than master."Id., ib., p. 128.

"There is much truth in the old adage, that fire is a better servant than master."Id.

If this be so, we must accept our fate and enlarge the adage that 'poets are born, not made,' and include Spiritualists.

" The popular adage said: "To bear what you think you cannot bear is really to bear."

Farwell old Adage, keep your nose warm, the Rheum will make it horn else

Farewell old Adage, I hope to see the Boys make Potguns on thee.

The wisdom of such legislation is questionable, as the old adage runs: "A lie will travel around the world while the truth is putting on its boots"; moreover, it is questionable whether they are not class legislation in extending to a certain form of business or a certain trade a protection which is not extended to others.

The adage, "God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks," must surely be of native parentage, for of no country is it so true as of our own.