Proverbs of All Nations, Compared, Explained, and Illustrated

by Walter K. Kelly

Is it Charles Lamb who says that a rogue is a fool with a circumbendibus?

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

And better than what is called "Connaught security: three in a bond and a book oath."

FOOTNOTES:

[618] La mentira tiene cortas las piernas. Le bugie hanno corte le gambe.

[619] Si arriva più presto un bugiardo che un zoppo.

[620] Veritas non quærit angulos.

[621] Magna est veritas et prævalebit.

[622] La verdad es hija de Dios.

[623] La verdad, como el olio, siempre anda en somo.