Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Making

He that makes one basket can make a hundred.

He that makes the shoe can’t tan the leather.

He that maketh a fire of straw hath much smoke and but little warmth.

There is no making a good arrow from a pig’s tail.Spanish.

There is no making a sieve from an ass’s tail.Greek.

There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs.Italian, Spanish.

There is no making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

What man has made man can destroy.German.

You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.(Napoleon’s remark over the slain after the battle of Borodino.)

You may be a wise man though you cannot make a watch.