I took out the ashes from the fire-place, I put them into a basket ,and then threw them away. I have done three works. I woke up the baby and gave him a little milk, and then I put him to sleep again. I have done six works. As busy as a hen with one chicken. http://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofkash014372mbp/dictionaryofkash014372mbp_djvu.txtAre the horns too heavy for the bullock ? No matter how large the family the father would not willingly part with one of his children
Category Archives: OUTCOMES AND CONSEQUENCES
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
The bigger the head the bigger the headaches
Cameroon.
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/african-proverbs-choose-your?xg_source=activity
Where pride leads, shame follows.
"The proverbs of Wales: a collection of Welsh proverbs, with English Translations"
And walk not on the earth with conceit and arrogance. Verily, you can neither rend nor penetrate the earth, nor can you attain a stature like the mountains in height.
ISLAMIC QUOTE.
foto – raleigh tree
The thing done carefully never fails.
The aged knows, the young suppose.
"The proverbs of Wales: a collection of Welsh proverbs, with English Translations"
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. Peggy Cahn
http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Maturity-page-1.htm
foto – raleigh morning april 2010
When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets. Nigeria.
Petit Testament
In the twenty-fifth year of my age
I find myself to be a dromedary
That has run short of water between
One oasis and the next mirage
And having despaired of ever
Making my obsessions intelligible
I am content at last to be
The sole clerk of my metamorphoses.
Begin here:
Ern Malley
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sites 2c http://www.motherlandnigeria.com/proverbs.html#WisdomAge
http://jacketmagazine.com/17/ern-poems.html
foto – repton railway bridge dec 09
Sabır acıdır, meyvesi tatlıdır. Translation: Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Turkish.
MIRIAM LO
FRUIT IN SEASON 2: WHAT RHYMES WITH . . .peaches? Beaches. A peach of a beach.
Gracetown in summer. A soft fur of heat
over bodies. The water, icy. Exploding
gently on legs as fruit in the mouth.
Sand the texture of peach stone: gritty,
rough. China, a memory refracted
through tropics: small fat god, white beard,
riding a deer. A Chinese Santa Claus.
In his hand, the fruit of which we speak:
everything peachy
Australia- Poetry International Web
foto – summer fruit in ulmarra dec 09
Pro 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
FIMBO YA MAONYO HUADHIBU. NGU.
The stick of warnings hurts. It punishes when you do not listen to warnings.
Center for African Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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foto – iluka pelicans dec 09
Bed is the poor man’s opera. Italian.
There’s no doubt she was out with one of them and went further than she meant, but if you make your bed you must lie on it.
1921 A. P. Herbert House by River
foto – bilambil cottage dec 2008
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning. Danish .
ty Special Dictionary
In Martin’s Bar the topless waitresses
are all sober, their perfectly matched tits
jump at the drunks while upstairs
a poet listens to the race results.
foto – izzy foreal considering dec 2008 bilambil.
This is the cane That makes our tea sweet, Grown on the ravaged land Out in the heat.
ty Robert Treborlang Australia
http://www.majormitchell.com.au/htah/htahpestpoem.html
The sweetest wine turneth to the sharpest vinegar.
"Scottish proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson"
foto – sugar cane at tumbulgum 2008
“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.” Erma Bombeck
This is a proverb of fable origin.
An ass seeing his master pet a little lap-dog and hold it in his lap desired the same treatment, so broke his halter, rushed into the house and began to prance and kick and at last tried to sit in his master’s lap in order that he might re ceive the same sort of caress that was given the lap-dog. For his trouble the ass received only a sound beating.
The fable and proverb teach that not all are born with like endowment of characteristics. It was used with reference to those who try to emulate those above them and become involved in difficulty for their pains.
"Moral significance of animals as indicated in Greek proverbs"
foto- coldstream backyard nov 09
If one cannot do as one wishes, one does as one can.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
GREEK. ty
http://www.special-dictionary.com/proverbs/keywords/wishes/3.htm
foto – izzy foreal and andrew hegedus at wide river cafe ulmarra 2009 november
Tree leans on tree in the forest and man on man in national life.
Each swipe of the dish-sponge is anger or regret,
choices have consequences, consequences constrict
to the tightness of skin on a fruit, this feijoa
I slice into, savagely, and stop. Pineapple-scented.
The soft, fragrant jelly within.
Australia – Poetry International Web
foto – fruit on a coldstream street tree ulmarra nov 09.
A bad year has little fruit, and distress but few friends.
African.
The fruit of blessing grow on the tree of hardship.
foto – small peaches in coldstream street ulmarra nov 09.
Man bears the consequences of his own actions.
" Shun doctors and doctors’ drugs if you wish to be well," was the seventh, last, and best, rule of health laid down by the famous physician Hoffman
"A collection of the proverbs of all nations"
" The sins of our youth we atone for in our old age " (Latin).
foto – lynne sanders at hungry head 1973
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
Soon ripe soon rotten. "Late fruit keeps well" (German)
"A collection of the proverbs of all nations"
foto – peach tree in ulmarra 09
Envy wears the mask of Love
TENNYSON.
The Envious Lobster, Poem
Author
"Miss Gould"
Date
1834
“Yes!” cried the lobster, “that I’ll do,
And thrice as much, if needs must be
To be as gaily clad as she!”
Then, in she made a fatal dive
And never more was seen alive.
Now, those who learn the lobster’s fate,
Will see how envy could create
A vain desire within her breast,
And pride of dress could do the rest,
That brought her to an early death:
’T was love of show that cost her breath.
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 