46: EGGS IN LITERATURE. 
You cannot teach your grandmother how to 
suck eggs. 
Many people are like eggs; too full of them- 
selves to hold anything else. 
We prize more the egg refused us than the 
ox which is given us. 
“Choose eggs of an hour, fish of ten, bread of 
a day, wine of a year, a woman of fifteen, and 
a friend of thirty.” 
“ Neither good egg, nor bird.” 
= 
FROM THE TURKISH. 
But yesterday out of the egg; to-day he 
despises the shell. 
Let me cook you an egg,— but the egg is at 
the vineyard, and the vineyard is on _ the 
mountain. 
To-day’s egg is better than to-morrow’s hen. 
