LOVE and a cough cannot be hidCf. L. amor tussisque non celantur, love and a cough cannot be concealed.a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 4276 Luken luue at the end wil kith [concealed love
will show itself in the end]. 1573 J. SANFORDE Garden of Pleasure 98 V Foure things
cannot be kept close, Loue, the cough, fyre, and sorrowe. 1611 R. COT-GRAVE Dict.
French & English s.v. Amour, We say, Loue, and the Cough cannot be hidden. 1640 G.
HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 49 Love and a Cough cannot be hid. 1863 G. ELIOT
Romola I. vi. If there are two things not to be hidden—love and a cough—I say there is a
third, and that is ignorance. 1994 R. DAVIES Cunning Man 458 Love and a cough cannot
be hid. 2002 Washington Times 14 Feb. A21 Three things are hard to hide, says the
Yiddish proverb: a cough, poverty and love. love; secrecyOne cannot LOVE and be wiseCf. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Sententiae xxii. amare et sapere vix deo conceditur, to love and to
be wise is scarcely allowed to God.
c 1527 T. BERTHELET tr. Erasmus’ Sayings of Wise Men B1V To have a sadde
[serious] mynde and loue is nat in one person. 1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages
II. A5 To be in loue and to be wyse is scase graunted to god. 1612 BACON Essays ‘Of
Love’ xii. It is impossible to loue and bee wise. 1631 R. BRATHWAIT English
Gentlewoman 32 The Louer is euer blinded.. with affection.. whence came that vsuall
saying One cannot loue and be wise. 1872 G. ELIOT Middlemarch II. III. xxvii. If a man
could not love and be wise, surely he could flirt and be wise at the same time? 2005
Hindustan Times 11 Oct. (online) The Delhi High Court last week refused to nullify the
marriage of a 15-year-old girl on the ground that she had reached the ‘age of discretion’.. That phrases like ‘one cannot love and be wise’.. figured in the Delhi HC judgment is
bewildering. love; wisdom
LOVE begets loveCf. L. amor gignit amorem, love produces love.1648 HERRICK Hesperides 297 Love love begets, then never be Unsoft to him