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QUITTERS NEVER WIN, AND WINNERS NEVER QUIT.
Submitter comment: HEARD IT FROM OLD BASKETBALL COACH.
Data entry tech comment: CHIASMUS
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DETERMINATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NONE GIVEN
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UNDER EVERY COW THERE IS A PILE OF SACRED COW MANURE.
Where learned: SEA
James Callow Keyword(s): HUMOR ; PARODY ; SCATOLOGICAL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
UNDERSTANDING IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-00-1968
STRENGTH
UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.
Data entry tech comment: UNION GIVES STRENGTH. FROM AESOP'S THE BUNDLE OF STICKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PATRIOTISM
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NONE GIVEN
PROVERB
RIGHT TO TIGHT, LEFT TO LOOSE.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY TO REMIND YOURSELF HOW TO TURN A SCREW OR
JAR TOP.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- MNEM PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1981
PROVERB
WHISTLING GIRLS AND CROWING HENS BOTH TURN OUT TO NO GOOD ENDS.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDMOTHER ONCE CAUGHT MY MOTHER WHISTLING WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE
GIRL AND SAID THIS TO HER.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1981
PROVERB
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, LAUGHS BEST.
Submitter comment:
AFTER MY MOTHER GOT BACK AT ME FOR PLAYING A PRACTICAL JOKE SHE
QUOTED THIS.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1981
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
ONCE ON THE LIPS, FOREVER ON THE HIPS.
Submitter comment:
MY BROTHER MADE UP THIS LITTLE RHYME AS A REMINDER TO ME THAT I HAVE
TO CONSTANTLY WATCH MY WEIGHT AND ESPECIALLY WEIGHT ON MY HIPS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GARDEN CITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Measure of time P574.87 PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
GET ALONG GO ALONG
Submitter comment: SHORT,SWEET. IT MEANS "I DON,T WANT TO BE BOTHERED"
Where learned: NATIONAL BANK OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM
IF THE HEAD IS PALE, RAISE THE TAIL. IF THE HEAD IS RED, RAISE THE
HEAD.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS A REMINDER FOR SIMPLE FIRST AID. IF THE HEAD IS PALE, THIS
COULD SIGNAL SHOCK WHICH WOULD BE HELPED BY RAISING THE LEGS. IF THE
HEAD IS RED, THIS COULD SIGNAL A HEAD INJURY, SO YOU WOULD RAISE THE
HEAD TO DECREASE THE BLOOD FLOW TO THE HEAD.
Where learned: NORTH CAROLINA ; CAMP LEJEUNE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-00-1977
PROVERBIAL APOTHEGM MAXIM
AN IRISH PROVERB HOLDS THAT IF YOU LAUGH TOO HARD DURING
THE DAY, YOU WILL CRY DURING THE NIGHT.
Submitter comment: DOUBLE CONTRAST: LAUGH-CRY, DAY-NIGHT
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001930S
APOTHEGM
IF YOU LAUGH AT THE TABLE YOU WILL CRY BEFORE BED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Eating For menu, see N222. PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-00-1981
PROVERB
YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE
Submitter comment:
RHYME OF SNOOZE AND LOSE, REPETITION OF THE WORD YOU. USE OF
ELLIPSIS. IT MEANS TO ME THAT IF YOU ARE NOT ALERT YOU MAY MISS
SOMETHING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LINCOLN PARK
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 00-00-1976
PROVERB
OF ALL MY WIFES RELATIONS, I LIKE MYSELF THE BEST.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS SAID THIS IN FUN AND ALWAYS IN FRONT OF MY
GRANDMOTHER. HE ALWAYS LOVES TEASING HER.
Where learned: FLORIDA ; KEY BISCAYNE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 09-00-1981
PROVERB
PUT BREAD BETWEEN YOUR TEETH AND YOUR HUNGER SHALL RETURN.
Submitter comment:
THE MEANING BEHIND THIS SAYING IS LITERAL. IF A PERSON, FOR EXAMPLE,
COMES HOME FROM WORK AND SAYS HE/SHE IS NOT HUNGRY, IT WILL TAKE
JUST ONE BITE OF THE DINNER THAT HAS BEEN PREPARED TO CHANGE THEIR
MIND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-25-1982
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
Submitter comment: IN SPORTS TALK, YOU HAVE TO BE MEAN SOMETIMES TO WIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001960S
"LOSE" IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
Submitter comment:
ATHLETES MUST CONSIDER THE WORD LOSE BAD, AND BY STRIVING
TO WIN IT CAN BE ELIMINATED FROM THEIR VOCABULARY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
SOME THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE SEEN, BUT NOT HAD.
Submitter comment:
MEANS THAT EVERYTHING THAT LOOKS GOOD CANNOT BE HAD
BY EVERYONE. LIKE A PRETTY GIRL WHO NEVER GETS MARRIED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-04-1982
ONE THING YOU CAN GIVE AND STILL KEEP IS YOUR WORD.
Submitter comment:
IF YOU PROMISE TO MARRY SOMEONE, AND DO IT,
THEN YOU HAVE GIVEN YOUR WORD AND KEPT IT ALSO.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1982