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" I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. "
La Belle Assemblée - Page 112
1807
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Mentor, Or, The Moral Conductor of Youth: From the Academy to Manhood ...

David Morrice - 1801 - 328 pages
...to exert yourselves for their support; and, though it is a received proverb among men of the world, that "when poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window," yet it will be found completely false, where there is true love ; and you must learn to separate the...
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La Belle Assemblée, Or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, Volume 3

1807 - 472 pages
...of — " Love na Cottage;" on the contrary, from a more extensive observation of men and manners, 1 am more inclined to echo the adage of our old nurse,...us, that " When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flics out at the window.'' And yet, dear friend, one would wish thatr fortune should be but a secondary...
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The baptist Magazine

1864 - 868 pages
...some expressions of dissatisfaction being uttered, one of our elder brethen quoted the old proverb, " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," and no more was said. In feet the crisis has been looked at in a generous spirit. It is believed that the...
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The guide to domestic happiness [by W. Giles].

William Giles - 1811 - 268 pages
...hope or earthly joy f Thy gifts, O fortnne> 1 resign, Let her aiul poverty be mine! I know it is said, That when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. But why should this be thought strange ? The marriages to which the remark is applicable were originally...
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Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with ..., Volume 1

1814 - 568 pages
...sunt. Poverty has, at times, the power of destroying even the affection of a parent to his offspring. " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." In extreme poverty, the mind is too intensely employed in procuring sustenance, to have leisure to...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 73

1818 - 598 pages
...real sufferings of an unavailing repentance. Every old woman in the parish ba« an Shswer ready, ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window'—' Marry in haste, and repent at leisure' — And what think you will become of affection when dissatisfaction...
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Oakwood Hall: A Novel; Including a Description of the Lakes of ..., Volume 1

Catherine Hutton - 1819 - 328 pages
...Very fine, indeed, if it will but hold ! but your two hundred a year won't main tain a family; and when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." " My Margaret's habits of economy will keep out the fiend," said Millichamp ; " and, if I err, she...
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Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the ..., Volume 1

Charles Swan - 1824 - 566 pages
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window — ENGLISH PROVERB. that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE...
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Select Proverbs of All Nations: Illustrated with Notes and Comments. To ...

John Wade - 1824 - 258 pages
...thither ; the third is thwick-thwack ; the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. Who has a bad wife, has purgatory for a neighbour. — Italian. Who is a cnckold, and conceals it,...
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Gesta Romanorum, or, Entertaining moral stories tr. with ..., Volume 1

Romani - 1824 - 548 pages
...represented by three persons. The three dukes are the devil, the world, and the flesh ; when they die, * When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.— ENGLISH PROVERB. 1 that is, when the soul repents of her sins, do not again be united to them. TALE...
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