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LIKE A TURTLE
EVEN A TURTLE GETS NOWHERE UNTIL IT STICKS OUT ITS NECK.
Submitter comment: SEMINARY PROVERB
Where learned: SAINT JOSAPHAT SEMINARY ; WASHINGTON DC
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): AMPHIBIAN ; DARING ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00-00-1962
WEATHER RHYME
EVENING RED AND MORNING GRAY
WILL SPEED THE TRAVELER ON HIS WAY;
EVENING GRAY AND MORNING RED
WILL BRING THE RAIN UPON HIS HEAD.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
Keyword(s): WEATHER PROVERB
James Callow Keyword(s): COLOR ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C462 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 09-07-1969
EVENING RED AND MORNING GREY
EVENING RED AND MORNING GREY ARE TOKENS FOR A BONNY DAY.
EVENING GREY AND MORNING RED THERE WILL BE RAIN UPON YOUR HEAD.
Keyword(s): COLOR ; WEATHER PROVERB
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; RHYME ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- C462 Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
WEATHER PROVERB
ABENDROT SCHON WETTERBOT.
TRANSLATION: THE EVENING SUN (IF CLEAR AND RED) INDICATES GOOD
WEATHER TOMORROW.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS IN REGENSBERG, GERMANY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; RHYME ; SYMBOL ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Natural atmospheric phenomenon |
Date learned: 11-29-1967
PROVERB
EVEN THE BREAD CRIES WHEN IT'S EATEN BY A LAZY MAN.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): FOOD
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONIFICATION ; SYMBOL ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
RUSSIAN PROVERB
EVEN THE COLDEST WIND CANNOT EXTINGUISH THE SUN.
Where learned: RUSSIA ; MOSCOW
Keyword(s): COSMOS
James Callow Keyword(s): HOPEFULNESS ; OPTIMISM ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 00-00-1905
GHOST PROVERB
EVEN THE GHOST WILL LISTEN IF YOU BEG.
Submitter comment:
HERE THE GHOST REPRESENTS THE KING OF HADES, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO
SIT ON HIS THRONE OF JUDGMENT WITH A STERN FACE. WHEN THE DEAD ARE
BROUGHT INTO HIS PRESENCE ONE BY ONE, HE WEIGHS THE LOAD OF THEIR
SINS ON A BALANCE AND LOOKS AT THE SCENE OF THEIR DEEDS REFLECTED
IN A MIRROR, AND THEN HE SENDS THEM TO HELL OR HEAVEN, TO PURGATORY
OR BACK TO LIFE. IF THE SINNER IN TEARS OF REPENTANCE BEGS FOR
PARDON, HE WILL BE LENIENT. A MAN IS MORE LIKELY TO FORGIVE IF YOU
BEG HIS PARDON FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WRONG.
Data entry tech comment: ETHNIC ORIGIN
Keyword(s): SUPERNATURAL
James Callow Keyword(s): REPENTANCE ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CHILDBIRTH
EVEN THE STONES IN THE ROAD KNOW THAT A WOMAN WHO DIES IN CHILD-
BIRTH IS DESTINED FOR GLORY.
Submitter comment:
FR. MALONY LEARNED THIS FROM HIS MOTHER AT HOME WHO IS OF IRISH
DESCENT.
Where learned: RECTORY ; HOLY NAME
Keyword(s): ANIMATED NATURE
James Callow Keyword(s): PERSONIFICATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-19-1967
PROVERB IN VERSE (?)
EVEN THE SEVERED BRANCH GROWS AGAIN,
AND THE SUNKEN MOON RETURNS:
WISE MEN WHO PONDER THIS ARE NOT TROUBLED IN ADVERSITY.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; HINDU BOOK CENTER
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; OPTIMISM ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Sign or prediction through Observation of galactic or celestial bodies |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
MORAL PROVERB
EVEN THOUGH A HORSE HAS FOUR LEGS HE STILL GETS STUCK IN THE MUD.
Submitter comment:
EVEN THOSE WHO HAVE EVERYTHING ARE STILL SUBJECT TO MISFORTUNE.
TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; PESSIMISM ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | 686 Fourths / Quarters BELIEF -- Body part Senses Lower body, legs PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
A WORTHWHILE THOUGHT
EVER READY, EVER PRESENT,
NEVER READY, NEVER PLEASANT.
Submitter comment:
A FAVORITE SAYING OF MRS. HYATT'S FATHER THAT SHE REMEMBERS FROM
HER CHILDHOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE ; INITIAL ITERATION ; PARALLELISM ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
RUSSIAN PROVERB
EVERY BIRD BRAGS ABOUT ITS OWN SWAMP.
Where learned: RUSSIA ; MOSCOW
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; EGOTISM ; SYMBOL ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
PROVERB
EVERY BEAN HAS ITS BLACK.
Submitter comment: FROM HIS MOTHER.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; COLOR ; FOOD
James Callow Keyword(s): FAULTS ; OBSERVATION ; PESSIMISM ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-26-1967
PROVERB
EVERY BEAST ROARS IN ITS OWN DEN.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-15-1971
BIRD IN THE NEST
EVERY BIRD LIKES HIS OWN NEST BEST.
PEOPLE LIKE WHAT IS FAMILIAR TO THEM.
Submitter comment:
MARY LOU'S INFORMANT WAS HER GRANDMOTHER, BRIDGET O'CONNER, 81,
WIDOWED -- LONDON, ONTARIO.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-08-1972
PROVERB
EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER BUT NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): WEATHER PROVERB
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
RHYME
EVERY DAY GO OUT OF YOUR WAY
TO TO DO A KIND DEED FOR SOMEONE IN NEED.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): CHARITY ; HELPFULNESS
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY HER FATHER IN THE YEAR 1933.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-20-1972
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT USED THE PROVERB IN A CONVERSATION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-22-1970
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY; EVERY CAT HAS HIS NIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; LETCHERY ; PARALLELISM ; REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-20-1972