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Show SENSIBLE EPIGRAMS Father's fraud drives sons abroad. Desired things may not be desirabla. A maid's best dress is bashfulness. Buy not silk when you owe for milk. Fear of failure Is the father of failure. fail-ure. Why kill nettles If you grow thistles? this-tles? Avoid what makes in thy pocket a void. Sellers need tongues; buyers need eyes. The good wife's face lights up the place. She who buys "bargains" is often "sold." It's risky riding when the devil is driving. Better a good groat than a bad bank Bote. Better do than dream; better be than seem. Lessons learned in the cradle last to the grave. Add pence to pence, for wealth comes thence. Don't get a helpmeet till you've got meat to help. To avoid a second quarrel, avoid the first. From Spurgeon. |