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ARABIAN PROVERB
A SECRET IS YOUR SLAVE IF YOU KEEP IT,
YOUR MASTER IF YOU LOSE IT.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; WEST SENECA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
POLISH PROVERB
A SELFISH MAN LOSES TWICE.
CHYTRY DWA RAZY TRACI. (POLISH)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-23-1967
SEXUAL GRATIFICATION IS GEOMETRICALLY PROPORTIONAL
TO THE NUMBER OF ORIFICES VIOLATED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
SHARED REMEMBRANCES LIVE ON
LONG AFTER YOUTH HAS COME AND GONE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN NORWALK, OHIO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-16-1967
SHARE THE WEALTH - SHARE SOMETHING YOU HAVE WITH
SOMEONE ELSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-27-1969
A SHARP TONGUE IS THE ONLY EDGED TOOL THAT GROWS
CONSTANT USE.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; DORM ROOM ; TOLD IN ; 9717 MANISTIQUE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-22-1971
SHE WHO WASHES FACE MUST FIRST WASH NYLONS.
Submitter comment:
WHEN A GROUP OF GIRLS ARE LIVING TOGETHER - THERE ARE
ALWAYS DIRTY NYLONS IN THE SINK. SO YOU HAVE TO WASH
THE NYLONS BEFORE YOUR FACE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-04-1971
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
SING BEFORE YOU EAT,
YOU'LL CRY BEFORE YOU SLEEP.
Submitter comment:
AN OLD SAYING MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO KEEP ME FROM
SINGING BEFORE BREAKFAST; SHE ALWAYS SAID IT WAS
"BAD LUCK," BUT I RATHER SUSPECT I WAS JUST TOO NOISY.
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
FRENCH PROVERB
SKEPTICS ARE NEVER DECEIVED.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; WEST SENECA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
SLOTH AND SILENCE ARE A FOOL'S VIRTUES.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
THE SLOWER YOU GO, THE FARTHER YOU WILL GET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; 213 NORTH QUAD
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-02-1971
SLOWLY, SLOWLY, YOU'LL GO FAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM MAXIM
THE SMILE THAT YOU SEND OUT RETURNS TO YOU.
SMILE AND USUALLY SOMEONE WILL SMILE IN RETURN.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 2154 DICKERSON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
SAYING
A SOCIABLE MAN IS ONE WHO, WHEN HE HAS TEN MINUTES
TO SPARE, GOES AND BOTHERS SOMEBODY WHO HASN'T.
Submitter comment:
THIS BOOK (WELL SPRINGS OF TRUTH {BY} DR. W. W. BREESE
M.D. 1883 P. 345 L4) WAS GIVEN TO ME SOME YEARS AGO
BY A FRIEND WHO HAPPENED TO BE ANTIQUATING AT THE
TIME. THIS BOOK CONTAINS MUCH MATERIAL.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-08-1968
ITALIAN PROVERB
SO MANY HEADS
SO MANY OPINIONS.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): DISAGREEMENT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: DATE UNKNOWN
SOME PEOPLE FEEL LUCKY BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR
FIRST DOLLAR. THE LUCKY ARE THOSE WHO STILL
HAVE THEIR FIRST FRIEND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-01-1968
NOTHING
SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING.
MEJOR ES PAN DURO QUE NINGUNO. {SPANISH}
Submitter comment: LEARNED: THROUGH HIS STUDY OF SPANISH.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-05-1967
SAVE IN TIME, SO YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING WHEN
IN NEED.
SPARE BEZEITEN, SO HAST DU IN DER NOT. {GERMAN}
Submitter comment:
VARIANT OF ENGLISH SAYING "SAVE FOR A RAINY DAY."
INFORMANT HEARD THIS AS A CHILD IN REGENSBERG, GERMANY.
I HEARD THE VARIANT AS A CHILD IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-24-1967
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, AND HEAR FROM THE LIVING.
Submitter comment: WRITTEN IN A LETTER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 01-30-1970