is better than cure.
c 1576 T. WHYTHORNE Autobiography (1961) 142 I ment not to be on of thoz who
waith [esteems] A chip of chauns [luck] mor then A pownds wurth of witt. 1592 G.
DELAMOTHE French Alphabet II. 55 An ounce of discretion, is better worth, then a
pound of hardinesse [audacity]. 1616 T. ADAMS Sacrifice of Thankfulness 19 The
prouerbe is true; an Ounce of Discretion, is worth a pound of Learning. 1748 J. ELIOT
Essays upon Field Husbandry 12 It used to be the Saying of an old Man, That an Ounce of
Experience is better than a Pound of Science. 1866 BLACKMORE Cradock Nowell II. ix.
Remember that rigid probity, and the strictest punctuality.. are the very soul of business,
and that an ounce of practice is worth a pound of precept. 1925 J. GALSWORTHY
Caravan 667 ‘Define it [Beauty], Mr. Vaness.’ ‘An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory.
—It stands before me.’ 1981 P. O’DONNELL Xanadu Talisman ix. She said rather
primly, ‘An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit.’ 2002 Washington Times 5 Apr.
A20 Yet, if the IRS is attempting to reduce the incidence of obesity,.. shouldn’t it permit
deduction for activities and products that prevent one from becoming obese in the first
place? After all, an ounce of prevention could be worth a literal pound of cure. example,
good and bad; words and deedsOUT of debt, out of danger1639 J. CLARKE Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina 82 Out of debt and deadly danger.
1667 H. PEACHAM Worth of Penny (ed. 2) 8 How bold, confident, merry, lively, and
ever in humour are moneyed men (for being out of debt, they are out of danger). 1710 S.
PALMER Proverbs 132 Out of Debt out of Danger. ..A Man in Debt is a Slave, and can’t
act with Liberty. 1908 E. M. SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY H.M.I. xxi. Call it ‘distributing
capital expenditure over a term of years’, and even a rural dean succumbs. ‘Out of debt,
out of danger,’ but ‘out of debt, out of progress.’ 1977 ‘C. AIRD’ Parting Breath vii.
‘Well, they’re important, aren’t they?’ said Leeyes largely. ‘Out of debt, out of danger.’
security; thriftOUT of sight, out of mindCf. L. absens haeres non erit, an absent person will not be an heir.c 1250 Proverbs of Alfred (1907) 46 He that is ute bi-loken [shut out] He is inne
sone foryeten [forgotten]. c 1450 tr. T. à Kempis’ De Imitatione Christi (EETS) I. xxxiii.
Whan Man is oute of sight, son be he passith oute of mynde. 1545 R. TAVERNER tr.
Erasmus’ Adages (ed. 2) D6V Whereunto also agreethe oure Englyshe proverbe which
sayethe: Oute of syght, oute of mynde. 1797 A. RADCLIFFE Italian III. ix. Old women