 | William Tegg - 1875 - 136 sider
...pernicious. Busy-bodies never want a bad day. But help me to money, and I'll help myself to friends. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. Buy and sell, and live by the loss. Buy at a market and sell at home. By doing nothing we learn to... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1875 - 354 sider
...source, also, may be referred the adage, preserved in Thomas Cogan's "Haven of Health" (1596), "Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night." The withdrawal of the Romans was a serious blow to gastronomy in Britain ; but it would be a mistake... | |
 | John H. Young - 1879 - 440 sider
...served in abundance at breakfast whenever practicable. There is an old adage which declares that " fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night" LUNCHEON. In many of our large cities, "where business prevents the head of the family from returning... | |
 | 1880 - 432 sider
...served in abundance at breakfast whenever practicable. There is an old adage which declares that " fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night." LUNCHEON. In many of our large cities, where business prevents the head of the family from returning... | |
 | John H. Young - 1881 - 454 sider
...served in abundance at breakfast whenever practicable. There is an old adage which declares that " fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night." LUNCHEON. In many of our large cities, where business prevents the head of the family from returning... | |
 | 1881 - 898 sider
...shops at 3 r. M. ; and that business men generally avoid repletion in the middle of the day. "Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night," says a mediaeval proverb ; but the effects of those horrid cheese and porter breakfasts of Queen Anne's... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 sider
...bacon. A metonym for extravagance, as much as to say, " Do you eat bacon, and butter with it?" Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night See John Russell's Boke of Nurture, ed. Furaivall, line 89. and Note (Babus Book, &c., 1868). Butter... | |
 | Mary Abbott Rand - 1884 - 224 sider
...promised them what they wanted for breakfast, and laughingly quoted the old saying, — " Mince-pie is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night." "Don't see any sense in that!" whispered naughty Hannah to naughty Rhoda. Wasn't it a pity that they... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1885 - 442 sider
...fat. " 5. Fruit may be eaten with the recollection of the proverb of fruit-producing countries : ' It is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.' Ripe fruit in its season is wholesome, and preferable for a person of sedentary habits, to more nourishing... | |
 | G. Henry Horstmann - 1886 - 450 sider
...seasons for thine own, oh beer. Almost every nation has some old-fogy saying, that such and such a thing is "gold in the' morning, silver at noon, and lead at night ;" it is only varied by substituting some different edible as being thus fluctuating in its qualities.... | |
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They have a proverb here that fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. 
