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SAYING.
IF I'VE ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE, LET ME LIVE IT AS A BLONDE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ADVERTISING ; HAIR COLORING, BLEACHING ; HUMOR. ; TELEVISION COMMERCIAL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR.
PROVERB
IF JACK'S IN LOVE WITH JILL HE IS NO JUDGE OF HER BEAUTY.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): BIASED OPINIONS ; NAMES ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-01-1968
IF MEN CAN FLY THE SKY LIKE BIRDS,
IF MEN CAN SWIM THE SEA LIKE FISH- -
WHY CAN'T MEN WALK THE EARTH LIKE MEN.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S LINE DIVISIONS CHANGED BY KEYPUNCHER
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, ASSUMED ; THEOLOGY
Keyword(s): AIRPLANES ; ALLITERATION. ; BOATS ; VERSE.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
IF YOU HAVEN'T PUT SOMETHING DOWN, DON'T LOOK FOR IT}
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): TAKING NOTES
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-23-1971
SCOTTISH PROVERB
IF YOU KEN ME, COME AND LIVE WE ME.
Submitter comment:
THIS MEANS IF YOU LIKE ME, COME AND LIVE WITH ME AND IS AN OLD
SCOTTISH PROVERB WHICH MRS. CAMPBELL STILL USES.
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE ; KEN=KNOW ; SCOTTISH DIALECT ; WE=WI'
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1970
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CORN
IF YOU PLANT CORN IN THE OLD OF THE MOON, IT WILL EAR OUT BETTER.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): AGRICULTURE FARMING NATURE
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE IMPLIED ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Moon BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-09-1968
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIND TROUBLE, COMPLAIN FOR NOTHING AND THAT
WILL MAKE TROUBLE AND THEN YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT'S MOTHER, NELLY CARPE SAID THIS WHEN INFORMANT WAS A CHILD
INFORMANT CLAIMED HER GRANDMOTHER ALSO SAID THIS TO HER MOTHER,
NELLY CARPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PONTIAC
Keyword(s): ADVICE: POSITIVE
James Callow Keyword(s): CIRCULAR REASONING
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
IF YOU'RE GOING TO DRINK AND DRIVE, DON'T FORGET YOUR CAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALCOHOL POOR ADVICE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NO DATE RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
ON KISSING
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES YOU'RE GOING TO KISS A FOOL.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS PROVERB FROM A FRIEND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; YPSILANTI
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Physically handicapped Deformed BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Dreams P841.72 SPEECH -- Gesture PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-13-1967
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A FIGHT.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH ZDROJESKI WHEN
HE WAS GROWING UP. ELIZABETH HEARD IT FROM HER MOTHER, MRS. RICE,
AROUND 1910.
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; JERSEY CITY
Keyword(s): HUMANS SENSUAL EXPERIENCES SUPERSTITION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Dreams P841.72 PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: CA00001968 ; 00-00-1910
PROVERB
IN WHOM WISDOM IS, IN HIM IS EVERYTHING; IN WHOM IT IS NOT, WHAT HAS
HE? HE WHO HAS ACQUIRED IT, WHAT DOES HE LACK? IN WHOM IT IS NOT,
WHAT HAS HE ACQUIRED?
Submitter comment: ORIGIN: THINKS FROM HER FATHER AS A SMALL GIRL.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; PARK RIDGE
Keyword(s): WISDOM, CONTRAST, REPITITION
James Callow Keyword(s): PERIODIC SENTENCE ; RHETORICAL QUESTION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
I SEE AND EVEN APPROVE OF THE BETTER THINGS IN LIFE, THEN I GO OUT
AND DO THE WORST ONES.- OVID
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
James Callow Keyword(s): BEHAVIOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
GAELIC
IS FEAR MALL NA GO BRATH
IT'S BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.
Data entry tech comment: THIS APPEARS TO BE A TRANSLATION FROM GAELIC
James Callow comment: OFTEN ELLIPSIS IS USED WITH THIS PROVERB
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CONTRAST, OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
ISN'T IT ODD THAT PEOPLE WILL GET SICK DRINKING TO THE HEALTH
OF OTHERS?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DRINKING, TOASTS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
PROVERB
D'R SCHAFFMANN IS SEI LU WAERT
THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; READING
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1964
NO MONEY PROVERB.
"LACK OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL."
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; PARODY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
PROVERB
LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS WITH YOU, SNORE AND YOU SLEEP ALONE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALIENATION ; HUMOR ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 07-15-1964
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM MAXIM
LAUGH BEFORE BREAKFAST; CRY BEFORE BEDTIME.
Submitter comment: SCOTTISH.
Where learned: INFORMANTS PLACE OF OCCUPATION - DETROIT BOARD OF
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; CONTRAST ; ELLIPSIS ; PARALLEL STRUCTURE.
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-17-1970
PROVERB - - OMEN - - BELIEF
LAUGH BEFORE BREAKFAST, CRY BEFORE SLEEP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; CONTRAST ; ELLIPSIS ; PARALLELISM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-00-1970