 | Morris Palmer Tilley - 1926 - 494 Seiten
...travel safely through the world, it behooveth him to have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, a monkey's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a deer's feet. — HOWELL, Italian Proverbs, 13: To traverse the world safely, one must have the eye... | |
 | 1881 - 824 Seiten
...enumerated in this proverb : " To travel safely through the world a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, -and a hart's legs." The thoughtful reader may picture a state of society in which such a compound of villainous accomplishments... | |
 | R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - 1098 Seiten
...with a spider's thread. To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs." Scotch proverbs are intensely national. The thrift, the caution, the humour, the love of their own... | |
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To travel safely through the world, a man must have a falcon's eye, an ass's ears, an ape's face, a merchant's words, a camel's back, a hog's mouth, and a hart's legs. 
