The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (9 page)

, with the gods all things can be done.

1694
tr.
Rabelais' Pantagruel V.
xliii.
Drink .. and you shall find its taste and flavor to be exactly that on which you shall have pitched. Then never presume to say that anything is impossible to God.
1712
Letter
22 Nov. (1971) 117
However, take it again; all things are possible with God.
1826
Letter
11 June in
Autobiography
(1865) II. viii.
Sometimes it seems as if persons had too much .. intellect to be converted easily. But all things are possible with God.
1965
Mandelbaum Gate
vi.
It would be interesting, for a change, to prepare and be ready for possibilities of, I don't know what, since all things are possible with God and nothing is inevitable.

possibility and impossibility

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ALL things come to those who wait

Cf. Fr.
tout vient à celui qui sait attendre
, all comes to him who knows how to wait.

1530
Eclogues
(EETS) II. 843
Somewhat shall come who can his time abide.
1642
Select Italian Proverbs
26
He who can wait, hath what he desireth.
1847
Tancred
II. IV. viii.
I have got it at last, everything comes if a man will only wait.
1863
Poems
(1960) 402
All things come to him who will but wait.
1872
Tout vient à qui sait Attendre
in
From Dawn to Noon
II. 85
Ah! ‘All things come to those who wait.’ .. They
come
, but often come
too late
.
1931
Mapp & Lucia
vi.
There .. was a gay striped figure .. skipping away like mad … Miss Mapp gave a shrill crow of triumph. All came to him who waited.
1980
Leonardo & Others
viii.
Everything comes to those who wait. The theory fitted well into my lazy way of thinking.

patience and impatience

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