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"Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,--"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.""
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.""
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man you will learn to halt."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling,--a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A proverb and a byword."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain