Книга: Ellis Edward Sylvester «The P. Q.&G., or, "As the twig is bent the tree's inclined"»

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• just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined — Things, especially education, that affect and influence us in our childhood shape the kind of adult we turn out to be.  (There are various versions of this, like As the twig is bent, the tree s inclined and As the twig is bent, so the tree… …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined — Cf. 1530 J. PALSGRAVE L’éclaircissement de la Langue Française 161 A man may bende a wande [shoot] while it is grene [pliant] and make it strayght though it be neuer so croked. 1732 POPE Epistles to Several Persons 1.102 ’Tis Education forms the… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• tree — see as a tree falls, so shall it lie the tree is known by its fruit the apple never falls far from the tree he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree when the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• twig — see as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined …   Proverbs new dictionary

• bent — see as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined …   Proverbs new dictionary

• inclined — see as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined …   Proverbs new dictionary