SOME ODD PROVERBS

Shannon News, 3 July 1928, Page 4

SOME ODD PROVERBS

"Dr. Gurney Champion, a Bourne mouth medical man," says the 'Evening News,' of London, "is a student of "queer proverbs of all the world; he has collected 10,000 in eighty languages altogether, and is still collecting; of those he has now 600 are Chinese and 400 negro. As an Arab saying has it—'A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.' " Here are a few contributed by the doctor to the 'Evening News': — "A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."—Chinese. "Palings weren't fixed for climbing over." —West Indian Negro. , "The rad man rose to enjoy himself, but fount! no room."—Egyptian. "Live in my heart and pay no rent.' '—lrish. "In the ant's house dew is a de-. luge." —Persian. "The man who confesses his ignorance shows it once; the man who trier to conceal it shows it many times.' '— Japanese. "A book is like a garden carried m the pocket."—Arabian. "Tin plate don't mind dropping on the floor." —American Negro. "As long as a man builds he lives.' —Turkish. "Some smart folks can't tell a rotten rail without sitting on it."—West Indian Negro. _^