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ASK no questions and hear no lies
;
BELIEVE nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see
;
there's none so DEAF as those who will not hear
;
DREAM of a funeral and you hear of a marriage
;
GO abroad and you'll hear news of home
;
LISTENERS never hear any good of themselves
;
SEE no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
.
ASK no questions and hear no lies
;
BELIEVE nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see
;
there's none so DEAF as those who will not hear
;
DREAM of a funeral and you hear of a marriage
;
GO abroad and you'll hear news of home
;
LISTENERS never hear any good of themselves
;
SEE no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
.
heart
see
ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder
;
COLD hands, warm heart
;
what the EYE doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
;
FAINT heart never won fair lady
;
out of the FULLNESS of the heart the mouth speaks
;
HOME is where the heart is
;
HOPE deferred makes the heart sick
;
if it were not for HOPE, the heart would break
;
PLEASE your eye and plague your heart
;
it is a POOR heart that never rejoices
;
put a STOUT heart to a stey brae
;
the WAY to a man's heart is through his stomach
.
ABSENCE makes the heart grow fonder
;
COLD hands, warm heart
;
what the EYE doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
;
FAINT heart never won fair lady
;
out of the FULLNESS of the heart the mouth speaks
;
HOME is where the heart is
;
HOPE deferred makes the heart sick
;
if it were not for HOPE, the heart would break
;
PLEASE your eye and plague your heart
;
it is a POOR heart that never rejoices
;
put a STOUT heart to a stey brae
;
the WAY to a man's heart is through his stomach
.
If you don't like the HEAT, get out of the kitchen
1952Time
28 Apr. 19
President [Truman] gave a .. down-to-earth reason for his retirement, quoting a favorite expression of his military jester, Major General Harry Vaughan: ‘If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.’
1970
Financial Times
13 Apr. 25
Property people argue that hoteliers are not facing the facts of economic life, and that if they cannot stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen.
1975
History Man
xiii.
He got in the way of justice … You know what they say, if you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen.
1990
Washington Post
27 Aug. D5
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. That's what tough-talking politicians say, making it sound as though only a wimp would head for the exit.
1997
Spectator
15 Nov. 15
Some of these women show a lack of sensitivity about these things. That old saying was cruel but right, ‘If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.’
politics;
stress
HEAVEN protects children, sailors, and drunken men
The proverb is found in various forms.
1861
Tom Brown at Oxford
I. xii.
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
1865
Alec Forbes
III. xi.
I canna think hoo he cam' to fa' sae sair; for they say there's a special Providence watches over drunk men and bairns.
1980
Firestarter
57
She didn't even have a bruise—God watches over drunks and small children.
1997
Washington Times
18 Nov. A15
As we become once more the fool, we can only pray the old epigram is still true: ‘God protects fools, drunkards and the United States.’
providence
1861Tom Brown at Oxford
I. xii.
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
1865
Alec Forbes
III. xi.
I canna think hoo he cam' to fa' sae sair; for they say there's a special Providence watches over drunk men and bairns.
1980
Firestarter
57
She didn't even have a bruise—God watches over drunks and small children.
1997
Washington Times
18 Nov. A15
As we become once more the fool, we can only pray the old epigram is still true: ‘God protects fools, drunkards and the United States.’
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