| Charles Mackay - English language - 1888 - 440 pages
...reach. Put the saddle on the right hor.se. Put your hand twice to your bonnet for anes to your pouch. Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. QUALITY without quantity is little thought of. Quick at meat quick at wark. Quick, for you'll never... | |
| Dwight Edwards Marvin - Proverbs - 1916 - 456 pages
...is within. (Danish). Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap. (Danish). Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. (Scotch). The devil's children have the devil's luck. (English). There is no one luckier than he who... | |
| Proverbs - 1916 - 456 pages
...is within. (Danish). Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap. (Danish). Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. (Scotch). The devil's children have the devil's luck. (English) . There is no one luckier than he who... | |
| Huldah Florence Cook, Edith May Walker - Adult education - 1927 - 422 pages
...how the other half lives. One is not so soon healed as hurt. Open confession is good for the soul. Put your finger in the fire and say it was your fortune. (Ill-luck.) Rome was not built in a day. Shallow waters make most noise. Silence gives consent. Silence... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 534 pages
...deil. Put on your spurs and be at your speed. Put twa pennies in a purse, and they'll creep thegither. Put your finger in the fire, and say it was your fortune. Put your hand twice to your bonnet for ance to your pouch. Quality without quantity is little thought... | |
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