Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Cause

A good cause makes a stout heart and a strong arm.

A good cause needs help.French.

Everything must have a cause.Chinese.

For it is a duty, all the learned think,
To espouse his cause by whom you eat and drink.

He who hath an ill cause let him sell it cheap.

If you grease a cause well it will stretch.

It is a bad or ill cause that none dare speak in.Scotch.

Lidford law: first hang and draw, then hear the cause.

The best cause requires a good pleader.Dutch.

The cause finds arms.

There is a cause for all things.Italian.

’Tis a sign of an ill cause to rail at your adversary.

’Tis the cause makes all:
Degrades or hallows courage in its fall.Byron.

When the cause is lost words are useless.Italian.

Where the cause is just, the small conquers the great.Greek.