Show AX to lo give proverbs proverb full flavor among the best known old 1110 are ar those dealing with sour grapes looking the gin gift horse hone in the mouth the prophet honored elsewhere where than at t home haite baste and waste benesty and policy ong one might gay ay indeed that there are no such luch things as new proverbs since like wine they are to in need make them worth while hile of t age to th ake very definition ot of a proverb A short phrase long current in common speech bhola that age se Is 1 necessary to produce the lasting flavor in sterne sentimental journey Jo orney ocean occurs one of the most beautiful phrases in the english language god tempers the wind to the thorn shorn lamb but it was wa not original with sterne nor does the bible have it the phrase phrae was wag picked up tp by a writer george herbert about 1640 and was gleaned by him from a sixteenth century proverb of the french who in turn torn got it still farther back from tome some latin writer the gatins again may have brought it down from turkish or oriental sources as a these are rich ln in ancient proverbs arvery old nation has hag ft wealth of proverbial sayings one spanish author anthor alone collecting spain it Is 1 believed possesses esses the largest store though the arabs the persians the indians Ind lang the chinese end and the japanese also have unlimited quantities cleveland plain dealer |