 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 362 str.
...snow. Erskine, in comparing himself to his pipe, says : — " Thou'rt even such, Gone with a touch." A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. A man who can do everything can do nothing. A man who does nothing never has time to do anything. If... | |
 | David Bepler - 1890 - 308 str.
...workmen. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. A man can never thrive who has a wasteful wife. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. A lass that has many wooers oft fares the worst. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.... | |
 | 1893 - 112 str.
...thinks its wool heavy. A little leak will sink a great ship. A living dog is better than a dead lion. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. A man's house is his castle. A miss is as good as a mile. A penny for your thought. A penny saved is... | |
 | American Association of Railroad Superintendents - 1896 - 840 str.
...recollections of my schoolboy days is a rhyme in one of the old readers, something to the effect that "A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds" At that time I did not understand what it meant. I knew what a garden full of weeds meant, and it was... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1896 - 262 str.
...threadbare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. Good advice is poor food for a hungry family. " A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds." Lend me a bit of string to tie up the traces, and find fault with my old harness when I get home. Help... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1897 - 300 str.
...a man marries his trouble begins. BOUNCE BUCKRAM, velvet's dear ; Christmas comes but once a year. A MAN of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden...And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden fuil of snow ; And when the snow begins to fall, It's like a bird upon the wall ; And when the bird... | |
 | Edward Williams Byron Nicholson - 1897 - 398 str.
...All a-back of Building Hill.' PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES PROVERBS IN RIME A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. See pp. 190-92. [WWM] Birds of a feather Flock together. [WW MJ Early to bed, early to rise, Makes... | |
 | Edward Williams Byron Nicholson - 1897 - 396 str.
...Building Hill.1 PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES Proverbs 239 PROVERBS, PHRASES, SIMILES PROVERBS IN RIME A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. See pp. 190-92. ' [WWM] Birds of a feather Flock together. [WW MJ Early to bed, early to rise, Makes... | |
 | William Clayton Jacobs, Virginia Piper - 1897 - 110 str.
...PRACTICAL SPELLEB. 36. Dictation. Bain, rain, go away, Come again another day, Little Johnny wants to play. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. 40. (Copy and put the right word in the right place.) see sea, I wish you could the . You can ships... | |
 | 1897 - 176 str.
...insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. 10. Ill examples are like contagious diseases. 11. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. 12. One watch set right will do to try many by; but, on the other hand, one going wrong may be the... | |
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