 | Questions and answers - 1900 - 594 pages
...lit le, but he ca' n.Jt live upon nothing. A man loseth his time that comes early to a bad bargain. A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. A Saturday's mo»n,if it comes once in 7 years, comes too soon. A sparrow in hand is worth a phaesant... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1898 - 136 pages
...tooth has decayed. 15. The gentleman was late for the train. 16. My foot slipped on the ice. 17. A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. LESSON LIT. Write a sentence with man in the plural. Write a sentence w7ith geese in the singular.... | |
 | Percy B. Green - Mother Goose - 1899 - 258 pages
...written about the year 1680, occurs the following Puritan satire on Charles II.'s changeability: — *A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full...garden full of snow; And when the snow begins to fall, It 's like a bird upon the wall ; And when the bird away does fly, It's like an eagle in the sky ;... | |
 | Percy B. Green - Mother Goose - 1899 - 298 pages
...when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow; And when the snow begins to fall, It "s like a bird upon the wall ; And when the bird away...eagle in the sky ; And when the sky begins to roar, It 's like a lion at your door ; And when the door begins to crack, It 's like a stick across your... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...was loose, and they all tumbled in, What a precious concern ! cried Bryan O'Lin. A MAN OF WORDS. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. BE sure you are right, then go ahead. LONDON BRIDGE. London bridge is broken down, Dance over my Lady... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Proverbs - 1899 - 646 pages
...fifth of November we 'scaped a great slaughter ; And the sixth of November was the next day after. A man of words, and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. Friday's hair, and Sunday's horn, Goes to the D'ule on Monday morn. Women and wine, game and deceit,... | |
 | Abraham Jay Demarest - English language - 1900 - 156 pages
...says that they do not know just how to drive. In the morning he will teach them. TO BE MEMORIZED. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Do your best, your very best, And do it every day; Little boys and little girls, That is the wisest... | |
 | Abraham Jay Demarest, William Maturin Van Sickle - Children's poetry - 1900 - 158 pages
...says that they do not know just how to drive. In the morning he will teach them. TO BE MEMORIZED. A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds. Do your best, your very best, And do it every day ; Little boys and little girls, That is the wisest... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1901 - 262 pages
...Him, let your answer be, " Here am I, send me." There is something for every one to do. Remember " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds." For there is no truth more important to learn than this, that to admire what is right is one thing,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - Proverbs - 1902 - 290 pages
...value of the caution that " In lavishing words one wears out ideas." An old rhyme hath it that " A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds," and a grave old writer advises us on this that " The way of God's commandments is more in doing than in... | |
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A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds... 
