Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips by Max Cryer

Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips by Max Cryer

Author:Max Cryer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction/General
ISBN: Preposterous Proverbs
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


‘He who serves the public hath but a scurvy master.’

In his letter to Thomas Sterling in 1837, Thomas Carlyle wrote:

‘The public is an old woman, let her maunder and mumble.’

While a German adage states:

‘He who trusts the people hangs from a tree.’

‘When a lion is old he becomes a plaything of jackals.’

(Iran)

American General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1863 was equally pessimistic:

‘The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.’

And the following year British author John Ruskin quoted a ‘Dr Chalmers’ who believed:



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