Danger past, God forgotten
Meaning: When crisis ends, people abandon the gratitude and piety that desperation inspired.
Origin: An old proverb about people who pray in a crisis and forget God once it passes. It appears in Robert Christy's Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (1887); an earlier source hasn't been traced.
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- In vain he craves advice who will not follow it. — Asking for advice is pointless if you never intend to heed it.
- He that's afraid of wounds must not come nigh a battle. — If you fear getting hurt, stay out of the fight — risk is action's price.
- April borrows three days of March, and they are ill. — Early spring often turns wintry again, as harsh as the month just past.
From our tongue twisters
- Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre barril; rápido ruedan los carros sobre los rieles del ferrocarril. — The definitive Spanish rr drill — unrelenting double-r from start to finish.
- Parangaricutirimícuaro — Not a sentence but a single word — a legendary 22-letter pronunciation challenge from a r…
- Dans ta tente ta tante t'attend. — A gentle 'ta / ten / tan / t'' warm-up that sounds faster than it reads.