A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

LAWRENCE Letter 19 Dec. (1962) I. 169 She says a woman can only have one husband.

.. Constant dropping will wear away a stone, as my mother used to say. 1963 E. S.

GARDNER Case of Mischievous Doll vii. The constant dripping water.. can wear away

the toughest stone. persistence

contempt see FAMILIARITY breeds contempt.

continual see CONSTANT dropping wears away a stone.

contrary see DREAMS go by contraries.

cook see GOD sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks; TOO many cooks spoil the broth.

corn see a KING’S chaff is worth more than other men’s corn.

CORPORATIONS have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned

A large organization, unlike a private individual, can act unjustly or highhandedly without
fear of being brought to account.

1658 E. BULSTRODE Reports II. 233 The opinion of Manwood, chief Baron [c

1580], was this, as touching Corporations, that they were invisible, immortall, and that

they had no soule; and therefore no Subpœna lieth against them, because they have no

Conscience nor soule. c 1820 J. POYNDER Literary Extracts (1844) 1.268 Lord

Chancellor Thurlow said [c 1775] that the corporations have neither bodies to be

punished nor souls to be damned. a 1845 S. SMITH in S. Holland Memoir (1855) I. xi.

Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to

lose, nor a body to kick. 1932 ERNST & LINDEY Hold your Tongue xii. A corporation is

just like any natural person, except that it has no pants to kick or soul to damn, and, by

God, it ought to have both. business; conscience

corrupt see EVIL communications corrupt good manners; POWER corrupts.

cost see CIVILITY costs nothing.

cough see LOVE and a cough cannot be hid.