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PROVERB
HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS LOUDEST.
Submitter comment: PROVERB HEARD FROM MY PARENTS AND AT SCHOOL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
HE WHO RISES FIRST IS FIRST DRESSED.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS PROBABLY COMPARABLE TO "THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES
THE WORM."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 05-09-1972
PROVERB
HE WHO STEALS A CALF WILL STEAL A COW.
Submitter comment: STEALING LITTLE THINGS CAN LEAD TO STEALING BIG THINGS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 05-09-1972
PROVERB
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.
Where learned: VIRGINIA ; NORTH GARDEN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
HOW TIME FLIES!
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
THE HURRIER I GO, THE BEHINDER I GET.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; PEABODY COLLEGE LIBRARY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 05-01-1969
PROVERB
I'D RATHER WEAR OUT THAN RUST OUT.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
NOT GIVEN
I'D RECOGNIZE THAT VOICE IN DARKEST AFRICA.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
IF A MAN CAN'T LOVE A DOG, HE CAN'T LOVE A HUMAN.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
PROVERB
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY, TRY AGAIN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
SAYING
MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS SAID, "IF I EVER GET HYDROPHOBIA,
I HAVE A LONG LIST OF PEOPLE I WANT TO GO OUT AND BITE."
Submitter comment:
MARGARET'S GRANDMOTHER DYER WAS A CHARACTER AND THIS
POINTS IT OUT. THIS COULD PROBABLY BE TRUE OF MARGARET
AND HER FATHER TOO--IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GREEN HILLS ; CAIN SLOAN DEPARTMENT STORE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 08-08-1968
WEATHER PREDICTION
IF IT RAINS WHILE THE SUN IS SHINING IT WILL RAIN TOMORROW.
IT INVARIABLY CAME TRUE.
Submitter comment: MY GRANDDADDY, WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, USED TO SAY THAT
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 07-19-1968
PROVERB
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT, WE WOULD ALL BE RICH.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED ; SHONEYS RESTAURANT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 06-06-1970
PROVERB
IF YOU AIM AT NOTHING, YOU WILL HIT THE BULL'S EYE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
IF YOU CAN NOT AFFORD CHICKEN, HERRING WILL DO.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE ABOUT SOMEONE, DON'T SAY
ANYTHING AT ALL.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
PROVERBIAL MAXIM
IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE, DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.
Submitter comment:
A SAYING THAT THE INFORMANT WOULD REPEAT WHEN ADMONISHING
HER CHILDREN ABOUT BEING POLITE AND KIND TO OTHER PEOPLE.
THE INFORMANT LEARNED IT FROM HER MOTHER, WHEN GROWING UP
IN NELSON COUNTY, NEAR BARDSTOWN, KENTUCKY ABOUT 1920.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LEBANON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL MAXIM
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PLEASANT TO SAY, DON'T SAY
ANYTHING AT ALL.
Submitter comment:
SAID BY THE INFORMANT WHEN TELLING HER CHILDREN TO BE NICE,
TO BE AGREEABLE TO OTHER PEOPLE. THE INFORMANT SAID THAT
SHE LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER AND AUNT WHEN SHE WAS GROWING
UP IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY DURING THE 1940'S. SHE ALSO
REPORTED THAT IT WAS ALWAYS SAID IN A PLEASANT TONE OF VOICE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001940 CA