PROVERBS

[down south]

One man's meat is another man's poison.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Susan

[margb]

Where there's life there's hope.

[Penny Tray]

If you live by the sword, you'll die by the sword!

[glenshena]

Needs must.

[Penny Tray]

Every man to his own trade!

(This came back to me while watching two men cut down a huge tree positioned between two houses.)

[gnyaff]

love laughs at locksmiths.

Wee Boney

[Meg]

love laughs at locksmiths.

Wee Boney

Love this Wee boney .....

[gnyaff]

Hi Meg,
Apparently there have been different versions of it down the ages. I believe it first appeared in Shakespeare, with the lines.

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.


Wee Boney

[Meg]

Hi Meg,
Apparently there have been different versions of it down the ages. I believe it first appeared in Shakespeare, with the lines.

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,
Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.


Wee Boney

Much as I hated the minute dissection of his plays in school - I’m amazed at just how much his writings are used in every day English language.

http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.html

[gnyaff]

Empty vessels make most noise.

Wee Boney

[gnyaff]

Let sleeping doge lie.

Wee Boney