MODERN PROVERBS.
ACCEPTABLE TO ANCIENTS. METHUSELAH TO GLADSTONE. The Manchester Guardian recently offered prizes to its readers for modern proverbs. In announcing the results the judges said that it would have been possible to quote many examples of clever proverbs using modern language and modern examples 1o illustrate some obvious moral lliat would have been accepted by all leaders of thought from Methuselah to Gladstone. Some of the proffered proverbs were—‘‘lt is better to be silent- and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt about it. - ’ “Prison gates mostly open inwards." “He who flings mud is losing ground.” * * * * “Raise your hat to the past; take off your coat to the future.” "Forethought saves afterthought.” “Small prophets like quick returns.” “Freud in time saves crime.” “When the censor's away the unconscious will play-” “You can take a voter to the ballot but you can't make him think.” “An ounce of bounce is worth a pound of principle.” “When in Geneva do as Paris thinks." “Arm and the world arms xvith you.” “Bigger guns butter no buns.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19890, 20 May 1936, Page 12
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181MODERN PROVERBS. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19890, 20 May 1936, Page 12
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