 He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite. We read that all those who were born in England the year after the beginning of the great mortality...  Wise Words and Quaint Counsels of Thomas Fuller - Seite 144von Thomas Fuller - 1892 - 245 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...viper, all fison, and meddle not with it. 7. He tliat will lose his friend for a jest, de.•(Tres ll the happy gods so love, That for you oft they quit their bright and great Metropol eicept they bite. We read that all those who were horn in England the year after the beginning of the... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 358 Seiten
...do. Every man could do my business better than 1 can. Can he ? Lose thy fun rather than thy friend. " He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to...conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite. Such let my jests be, that they grind not the credit of my friend." — Thomas Fuller. Lost time is... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 Seiten
...jest is so forward, and afoot too, I hate it. 2846 Shakespeare : King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act ii. Sc. 2. He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. 2847 Thomas Fuller : The Holy and Profane States. The Holy State. Of Jesting. It is good to make a... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 Seiten
...friends, — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. 1710 Benjamin Franklin : Poor Richard's Almanac. He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. 1711 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and Profane States. The Holy State. Of Jesting. Take the advice of a faithful... | |
 | Thomas Fuller, Adelaide L. J. Gosset - 1893 - 238 Seiten
...the staple conceit consists in profaneness, then it is a viper, all poison, and meddle not with it. He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves...the year after the beginning of the great mortality, 1349,1 wanted their four cheek-teeth. Such let thy jests be, that they may not grind the credit of... | |
 | Samuel Foote - 1894 - 252 Seiten
...and humorists he consoled; they have the best of it — and the dull ones know it.' — RH HORNE. . " He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain'"' — FULLER. " Act Jreely^ carelessly, capriciously; as if our veins ran with quichsilver; and not utter... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...the ear of him that hears it. never in the tongue of him that makes it. — Shakes/ware. JEWELS. JOT. He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Such let thy jests be, that they may not grind the credit of thy friend ; and make not jests so long... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 Seiten
...the staple conceit consists in profaneness, then it is a viper, all poison, and meddle not with it. , He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to...cheek-teeth. Such let thy jests be, that they may not hurt the credit of thy friend, and make not jests so long till thou becomest one. No time to break... | |
 | 1900 - 492 Seiten
...the staple conceit consists in profaneness, then it is a viper, all poison, and meddle not with it. He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves...their four cheek-teeth. Such let thy jests be, that may not grind the credit of thy friend, and make not jests so long till thou becomest one. No time... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 Seiten
...the staple conceit consists in profaneness, then it is a viper, all poison, and meddle not with it. He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to...the year after the beginning of the great mortality, '349, wanted their four cheek-teeth. Such let thy jests be, that they may not hurt the credit of thy... | |
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