The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (533 page)

BOOK: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
4.59Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
SUFFICIENT unto the day is the evil thereof
With allusion to
MATTHEW
vi. 34 (AV) Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
1766
in et al.
Adams Family Correspondence
(1963) I. 56
Sufficient to the Day is the Evil thereof.
1836
Letter
1 Apr. in
Letters & Memorials
(1893) I. 57
In the meanwhile there were no sense in worrying over schemes for a future, which we may not live to see. ‘Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.’
1979
So soon done For
vii.
‘I'll deal with these [bills] later.’ .. ‘Sufficient unto the day,’ Kay agreed.
good and evil
Never let the SUN go down on your anger
With allusion to
EPHESIANS
iv. 26 (AV) Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
1642
Holy State
III. viii.
S. Paul saith,
Let not the Sunne go down on your wrath;
to carry news of the Antipodes in another world of thy revengefull nature.
1709
English Proverbs
189
We ought not to let the Sun go down upon our Wrath, or our Impenitence; neither ought we to let it conclude our Sluggishness.
1972
&
Nanny Says
37
Never let the sun go down on your anger.
1981
Other Shoe
ii.
Never let the sun go down on your anger, Clare's grandmother Herne used to say.
anger
;
forgiveness
;
malice

Other books

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Hay Alternativas by Vicenç Navarro & Juan Torres López & Alberto Garzón Espinosa
Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott