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It is the earliest known source of the proverb "many hands make light work", and of another once popular proverb, "save a thief from the gallows and he will never love you". [ 133 ] [ 134 ] The name of Bevis's sword, Morglay, also developed a secondary meaning as a common noun meaning "sword" 16th and early 17th centuries.
Many hands make light work; March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [17] [18] [19] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind; Men are blind in their own cause – Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist; Men get spoiled by staying, women get spoiled by wandering
Many hands make light work; Many parasangs ahead (Miles ahead) More haste, less speed; A necessary evil; Necessity is the mother of invention; Neither fish nor flesh; Neither with bad things nor without them (Women: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em) No sooner said than done; Not worth a snap of the fingers; Nowhere near the mark
There are often proverbs that contradict each other, such as "Look before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost", or "Many hands make light work" and "Too many cooks spoil the broth". These have been labeled "counter proverbs" [236] or "antonymous proverbs". [237] Stanisław Lec observed, "Proverbs contradict each other. And that, to be sure ...
Proverbs 11 is the eleventh chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book ...
Heywood portrait 1556. John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580) was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. [1] [2] Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive. [3]
Could you give me some clear and easy examples to illustrate them? Thank you many times Binhco 04:06, 25 September 2007 (UTC) Idioms and proverbs are two quite different things. A proverb is a short phrase which expresses a common belief or lesson - for example many hands make light work, or you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
"He who doesn't work, doesn't eat" – Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan, 1920. He who does not work, neither shall he eat is an aphorism from the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United States [1] to the communist revolutionary ...