 | John Maynard (of Plymouth.) - 1878 - 252 pages
...and embarrassments. Under such circumstances, the truth of the old adage is fearfully verified : " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Add to this, that frequently there is soon an increase in the family. On and on the stream flows ;... | |
 | 1878 - 924 pages
...mother's peevishness had no power to touch his happiness. " That remains to be proved," she resumed. " ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window ! ' You might have been such a comfort to me ! Richard invites all the riffraff of the country here... | |
 | Francis George Heath - Ferns - 1878 - 512 pages
...is, in substance, granting all that the Author contends for. The saying that when, for instance, ' Poverty comes in at the door Love flies out at the window,' is, no doubt, often exemplified in actual life. And, in the same way, ' the struggle for daily bread '... | |
 | Hesba Stretton - English fiction - 1878 - 446 pages
...mother's peevishness had no power to touch his happiness. " That remains to be proved," she resumed. " ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window ' You might have been such a comfort to me ! Richard invites all the riff-raff of the country here... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...long rankle in the heart before it is forgotten. Cost. — It is a homely but an honest proverb that when " Poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." It may not always be so, but it is better not to run the risk. We have known a husband who could speak... | |
 | Sarah Smith - 1879 - 308 pages
...mother's peevishness had no power to touch his happiness. " That remains to be proved," she resumed. " ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window ! ' You might have been such a comfort to me ! Richard invites all the riff-raff of the country here... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1892 - 542 pages
...What is Writer's Cramp, Anyway 3 What Love and a Woman Can Make of a Man 120-121 When Patience, &c 203 When Poverty Comes in at the Door, Love Flies Out at the Window, 300-301 Who He Is 327 Why All This Outcry, Friend Knickerbocker, &c 329 Why Doesn't That English Girl... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1883 - 750 pages
...which are also taken from the Hamasa, p. 803, may remind us of the English proverb which tells us that when "Poverty comes in at the door Love flies out at the window " : Bid camel stoop, descend, and dip, If love torment thee, bread Or cake in oil, 'twill serve thee... | |
 | Illustrated sabbath facts - 1883 - 194 pages
...can't help thinking you have carried what you call religious duty a little too far. They say that ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window -' now it's not true in my case, for I love you as much now as I ever did, but poverty is hard to bear."... | |
 | Eliza Clarke - Women - 1886 - 256 pages
...could be heard about him. Life at Epworth was at this time very uncomfortable, and the old adage, that "when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," seems to some extent to have been verified in the case of the Wesley s. On one occasion Mrs. Wesley... | |
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I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. 
