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NOT GIVEN
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): PATIENCE TIME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
Belief
Take a large piece of Alum and put it in your back pocket and it will cure anything.
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Contributed to Folklore Archive; December 1967.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Patient
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; CURE ; DOCTOR ; Medicinal ; MINERAL ; Patient
James Callow Keyword(s): BELIEF ; MEDICINE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Proverb
He who laughs last laughs best.
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.
KW: PPP
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; Maxim ; PATIENCE ; PROVERB ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
He that can have patience can have what he will.
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Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): PATIENCE ; Reward ; Virtue
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
He who laughs last, laughs best.
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Original BN [O400] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; PATIENCE ; Reward ; Virtue
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverbial Maxim
He who hesitates is lost.
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.
Keyword(s): ACTION ; Hesitation ; PATIENCE ; PUNISHMENT ; Reward
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Last Laugh:
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Submitter comment:
Heard this in Grade School
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.
Keyword(s): Laugh ; Laughter ; PATIENCE ; REVENGE ; Reward
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
PROVERB
LITTLE STROKES FELL GREAT OAKS.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; RENO HALL
Keyword(s): Chop ; Cut ; Oak ; PATIENCE ; PERSEVERANCE ; Tree
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-21-1968
Proverb
Little strokes fell great oaks.
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Chop ; Cut ; Oak ; PATIENCE ; PERSEVERANCE ; Tree
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Proverbial Metaphor:
Every dog has its day.
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects.
KW: ALX,X4X
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; Day ; DOG ; PATIENCE ; Reward
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Time and tide wait for no man.
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Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): PATIENCE ; PROCRASTINATION ; Tide ; TIME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Time is an herb that cures all diseases
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Original BN [V200] crossed out. Replaced with current classification
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): CURE ; DISEASE ; Herb ; PATIENCE ; PREVENTION ; REMEDY ; TIME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
Time waits for no man
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Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): PATIENCE ; PROCRASTINATION ; TIME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
watch pot never boils.
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A?? watch ed?? pot never boils
Original BN [V600] crossed out. replaced with current classifications.
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Boil ; METAPHOR ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; View ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils.
Submitter comment:
The informant learned this when she was a young girl in Chicago about 1910. She said it to me as I was looking out the window waiting for someone to come.
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Where learned: PORT LAMBTON
Keyword(s): Boil ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils.
Submitter comment:
Learned from her mother
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Where learned: INDIANA ; South Bend
Keyword(s): Boil ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
A watched pot never boils
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Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): BOILS ; PATIENCE ; Pot ; Watch ; WATER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Belief: Marriage
Marriage Prediction:
Years ago, when the girls would wash clothes on the washboard and would get the front of their dresses sopping wet, everyone would say that she would marry a drunkard.
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Original BN [B662] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classifications.
P870 - Omen?
P545 - Belief about Marriage?
They don't believe it, but they say it when the occassion arises
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): Dishes ; Domestic ; DRUNK ; Duties ; MARRIAGE ; PREDICTION ; Relationship ; RETORT
| Subject headings: | Observation BELIEF -- Marriage SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
A watched kettle never boils.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Boil ; Impatient ; Kettle ; Maxim ; PATIENCE ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; Wait ; Watch
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |