| Henry George Bohn - 1888 - 602 Seiten
...fortune call !:;:.. out. A man of straw is worth a woman of gold, 44. A man of strange kidney, 167. A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden fall of weeds, 195. A man surprised is half beaten. A man that breaks his word, bids others be false... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1888 - 444 Seiten
...man may woo where he will, but wed where his wierd is. A man may be kind and gi'e little o' his gear. A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden fu' of weeds.] A man is well or wae, as he thinks himself sae. A man has nae mair goods than he gets... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 362 Seiten
...snow. Erskine, in comparing himself to his pipe, says : — " Thou'rt even such, Gone with a touch." A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. A man who can do everything can do nothing. A man who does nothing never has time to do anything. If... | |
| David Bepler - 1890 - 308 Seiten
...workmen. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. A man can never thrive who has a wasteful wife. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. A lass that has many wooers oft fares the worst. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.... | |
| 1893 - 112 Seiten
...thinks its wool heavy. A little leak will sink a great ship. A living dog is better than a dead lion. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. A man's house is his castle. A miss is as good as a mile. A penny for your thought. A penny saved is... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1896 - 262 Seiten
...threadbare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. Good advice is poor food for a hungry family. " A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds." Lend me a bit of string to tie up the traces, and find fault with my old harness when I get home. Help... | |
| American Association of Railroad Superintendents - 1896 - 840 Seiten
...recollections of my schoolboy days is a rhyme in one of the old readers, something to the effect that "A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds" At that time I did not understand what it meant. I knew what a garden full of weeds meant, and it was... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1897 - 300 Seiten
...a man marries his trouble begins. BOUNCE BUCKRAM, velvet's dear ; Christmas comes but once a year. A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden...And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden fuil of snow ; And when the snow begins to fall, It's like a bird upon the wall ; And when the bird... | |
| William C. Jacobs, Virginia C. Piper - 1897 - 106 Seiten
...PRACTiCAL SPELLER. 36. Dictation. Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day, Little Johnny wants to play. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. 37. Pages 28-31. 39. Pages 34-35. lap row frog lake pads green leaves sat rowed 40. jumped love ly... | |
| Edward Williams Byron Nicholson - 1897 - 398 Seiten
...All a-back of Building Hill.' PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES PROVERBS IN RIME A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. See pp. 190-92. [WWM] Birds of a feather Flock together. [WW MJ Early to bed, early to rise, Makes... | |
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