was again reasserted.. in the often repeated verse which followed, that the good die
young. 1987 L. BARNES Trouble of Fools v. ‘Live hard, die young,’ I said. .. ‘You got it
wrong, Carlotta,’ Mooney said. ‘I learned it in school. It’s “Only the good die young.”
Before they get a chance to fool around.’ 2002 Washington Post 18 Jan. C1 It [Black
Hawk Down] teaches stuff they don’t know, only the smallest and most bitter of lessons:
that ammunition is more important than water, that cover is more important than
concealment, and that the good die young. death; youthHe is a GOOD dog who goes to church
1826 SCOTT Woodstock I. i Bevis.. fell under the proverb which avers, ‘He is a good
dog which goes to church’; for.. he behaved himself.. decorously. a 1895 F. LOCKER-
LAMPSON My Confidences (1896) 44 Tis said, by men of deep research, He’s a good
dog who goes to church. conductGOOD fences make good neighbours
1640 E. ROGERS Letter in Winthrop Papers (1944) IV. 282 A good fence helpeth to
keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall,
to keepe vs from meeting. 1815 H. H. BRACKENRIDGE Modern Chivalry (rev. ed.) IV.
II. xiii. I was always with him [Jefferson] in his apprehensions of John Bull. .. Good
fences restrain fencebreaking beasts, and.. preserve good neighbourhoods. 1914 R.
FROST North of Boston 12 My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under
his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’ 1978 T.
SHARPE Throwback x. ‘Hadn’t you better go and investigate?’.. Lockhart shook his head.
‘Strong fences make good neighbours.’ 2001 Washington Times 7 Sept. A4 Mr. Fox
insists that the United States overhaul immigration by the end of this year. .. He said he
doesn’t believe the American folk wisdom that good fences make good neighbors.
harmony and disharmony; neighboursA GOOD horse cannot be of a bad colour
a 1628 J. CARMICHAELL Proverbs in Scots no. 1621 There is gude horse of all
hewis. 1653 I. WALTON Compleat Angler iv. It is observed by some, that there is no
good horse of a bad colour. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 1713 Good Horses can’t be
of a bad Colour. 1891 J. L. KIPLING Beast & Man viii. ‘A good horse is never of a bad
colour’.. is wildly irreverent from the Oriental point of view. 1912 Spectator 28 Dec.
1094 Virgil.. did not hold that ‘a good horse cannot be of a bad colour’; he liked bays and
grays. appearance, significant; horse lore