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The Leinster man is sprightly, the Munster man boastful, the Connaught man sweet-tongued, and the Ulster man impudent.

(Irish).

The negro eats till he has had enough, the Persian till he bursts. (Osmanli).

The oppression of Turks rather than the justice of Arabs. (Arabian).

"By the term Arabs are here meant the Bedouins, who, in the Mammelouk times, most grievously oppressed the open country of Egypt. The Bedouins themselves often called their nation exclusively 'Arab,' a term they use more frequently than 'Bedou'; and all other Arabians who are not of Arab tribes, they distinguish by the appellation of Hadhary or Fellah, which with them are terms of reproach or contempt.'

J. L. Burckhardt. This proverb once current in Egypt is now obsolete.

The Osmanli has no right nor left.

(Osmanli).

That is, he is so shrewd that he is never taken off his guard.

The Osmanli hunts his hare in a cart. (Osmanli). Though apparently slow and often behind hand, he is patient and persevering and succeeds in accomplishing his purposes.

The Osmanli's bread is on his knees.

(Osmanli).

He always has sufficient food without working for it, as it is supplied in abundance from those whom he has conquered.

The prince with the Armenian is not distinguishable. (Osmanli).

When the prince associates with those whom he considers mean and low, he makes himself one with them. "You may know him by the company he keeps." "Birds of a feather flock together." (English).

There is no trust to be put in the Islanders. (Gaelic).

The saying probably came into use from the fact that Islanders being more dependent on the weather than others were often unable to keep their engagements.

The riches of Egypt are for the foreigners therein. (Arab). An allusion to the government of Egypt by foreigners.

The Russian is clever but always too late. (Russian).

The Scots wear short patience and long daggers. (Scotch).

The Tartar has no need of a guide. (Osmanli).

"The Tartar sells his father." He has no conscience. (Osmanli). "The Tartar is born a pig, therefore he does not eat pork." (Russian). "Is there a Tartar who is chasing you?"-addressed to one who is hasty in his actions. (Osmanli).

The three-tufted (The Marwaris), the cactus plant, and the red-faced (the Europeans), cannot live without increasing. (Marathi).

The Turk will (perhaps) be lettered, but he cannot be a man. (Osmanli).

The Osmanli has a contempt for Turks as is indicated by the following common sayings: "What does the Turk know of Bayram, he (can only) lap and drink whey." "They gave a beyship to the Turk; and he first killed his father.' "The Turk and the young lion, together with the donkey, took counsel from the calf, because he (the Turk) was born of his (the calf's) mother.

The Welshman keeps nothing till he has lost it. (English). This saying is said to have originated in the tenacity with which the Welsh held on to the castles that they had lost and recovered.

They wha hae a gude Scotch tongue in their head are fit to gang ower the world. (Scotch).

Three failures and a fire make a Scotsman's fortune. (Scotch).

To a Turk, the inside of a town is a prison. (Osmanli). "The Tartar who lives in a city believes himself in prison." (Turkish). "A great city-a great solitude." (English).

What is good for the Russian is death for the German. (Russian).

"What is food for some is black poison to others." (Latin). "One man's meat is another man's poison." (Scotch).

When God made the world he sent to the Poles some reason, and the feet of a gnat, but even this little was taken away by a woman. (Russian).

The dislike that the Russians have for the Poles is further seen in the following sayings: "We are not in Poland, where the women are stronger than the men." "A Pole tells lies even in his old age.'

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When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him. (French). Where Germans are, Italians like not to be. (Italian).

Where the Turk's horse once treads, the grass never grows. (English).

You may praise a Russian a thousand times, but his eyes will still be blue. (Turkish).

RHYMING PROVERBS

ENGLISH

A good wife and health are man's best wealth.

"A good wife and good name hath no mate in goods
nor fame."
"The best and worst thing to man
for his life, is good or ill choosing his good or ill
wife."
'Saith Solomon the Wise, 'A good wife's
a great prize.' "A little house well filled, a
little land well tilled, a little wife well willed, are
great riches." 'A good wife and health are
man's best wealth." "A good yeoman makes a
good woman." (English)."

The following excuse is sometimes quoted by men
who have made a poor marriage: "But wives
must be had, be they good or bad."

A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.

A pullet in the pen is worth a hundred in the fen.
Fen-i.e., the mud or mire.

This proverb is found under many forms in all
parts of the world. It is often quoted: "A bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush."

As a man lives, so shall he die; as a tree falls, so shall it lie. Eccles., xi: 3.

"He that lives wickedly can hardly die honestly." (English). "As the life is, so is the end." (Latin). Cheese, it is a peevish elf; it digests all things but itself. This English proverb, borrowed, from the Latin, is one of many sayings relating to cheese. Among them are the following: After cheese comes nothing." "Toasted cheese hath no master." "Make good cheese if you make little."

"As

demure as if butter would melt in his mouth, and yet cheese will not choke him." (English). 'Cheese and bread make the cheeks red." "Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night." (German). (German). "A windy year, an apple year; a rainy Easter, a cheese year." (French). "Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow." (Spanish).

Among the precepts of the Salerno school of health was this one regarding the use of cheese: "Cheese is wholesome when it is given with a sparing hand."

Suffolk cheese has often been the subject of humour: "Hunger," it is said, "will break through anything except Suffolk cheese."

"Cheese such as men in Suffolk make,

But wish'd it Stilton for his sake."

Alexander Pope.

The familiar English saying: "Every Jack must have his Jill," is rendered thus by the Creoles of Mauritius: "There is no cheese but that can find brown bread."

"He was of old Pythagoras' opinion

That green cheese was most wholesome with an onion;

Coarse meslin bread, and for his daily swig,

Milk, buttermilk and water, why and whig."

"If all the world were apple pie,

And all the seas were ink,

John Taylor.

And all the trees were bread and cheese,
My stars! What should we think?"

Bishop John Still. The Welshman's love of cheese has become almost a proverb.

"I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh, the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitæ bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself."-SHAKESPEARE: Merry Wives of Windsor.

It was customary in olden times to tell children in sport that the moon was made of cream or green cheese.

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