The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (322 page)

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1670
English Proverbs
113
While there's life, there's hope, he cry'd; Then why such haste? so groan'd and dy'd.
1868
&
Foul Play
I. xi.
They lost, for a few moments, all idea of escaping. But .. ‘while there's life there's hope.’
1939
Death of his Uncle
V.
But so far it's only the poor gentleman's clothes that have been found, isn't it? I mean, while there's life there's hope.
1979
Hooky & Villainous Chauffeur
viii.
‘I don't want to go on to ninety-five.’ ‘Not now you don't; but you wait till you're ninety-four. While there's life there's hope, as they say.’
1996
Washington Times
29 Jan. C14
I will be pleasantly surprised if corporate America acts on your ‘wake-up call’— but where there's life there's hope.
life
;
optimism
LIGHT come, light go
Less often heard than
EASY come, easy go.
Cf. late 14th-cent. Fr. [
argent
]
legierement vous sont venu et legierement sont perdu
, [money] comes to you lightly and is lightly lost.
c
1390
Pardoner's Tale
l. 781
And lightly as it comth, so wol we spende.
a
1475
Works
(1869) I. 489
For thyng that lightly cometh, lightly goeth.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. ix. L1
Lyght come lyght go.
1712
John Bull still in his Senses
iv.
A thriftless Wretch, spending the Goods and Gear that his Fore-Fathers won with the Sweet of their Brows; light come, light go.
1861
Cloister & Hearth
II. X.
Our honest customers are the thieves … With them and with their purses 'tis lightly come, and lightly go.
1937
They found Him Dead
iv.
He was a bad husband to her. Light come light go.
getting and spending
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