SOME SAYINGS AND A POEM

 

SOME SAYINGS AND A POEM

            A saying is defined as a well-k-known phrase or sentence that expresses common truth, piece of advice, or cultural wisdom about human life and experience.

            Sayings are also called short, memorable expressions that convey wisdom, advice, or a general truth.

            Sayings can be as good as proverbial statements.

            Here are some examples:

*Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

            *Truth fears no examination.

            *It takes two to make a quarrel.

            *All is well that ends well.

            *A stitch in time saves nine.

            *Lay by something against a rainy day.

            *Rome was not built in a day.

            *The early bird catches the worm.

            *Where there is a will, there is way.

            *Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

            *There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.

            *Look before you leap; think before you speak.

            *Every cloud has a silver lining.

            *Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

            *Barking dogs seldom bite.

            *Love begets love.

            *A bid in hand is worth two in the bush.

Here is a saying on loyalty; it’s  followed by a poem from As You Like IT a play written by the English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

 

SAYING: Loyalty is hard to find. Trust is easy to lose. Actions speak louder than words.

 

  

            POEM:           Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

                                    Thou art not so unkind

                                    As man’s ingratitude.

                                    Thy tooth is not so keen,

                                    Because thou art not seen,

                                    Although thy breath be rude.

                                    Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly

                                    Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

                                    Then heigh-ho, the holly.

                                    This life is most jolly.

 

                                    Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,

                                    That dost not bite so nigh

                                    As benefits forgot.

                                    Though thou the waters warp,

                                    Thy sting is not so sharp,

                                    As friend remember’d not.

                                    Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the green holly

                                    Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

                                    Then heigh-ho the holly,

                                    This life is most jolly.

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G.R.Kanwal

4 June 2026