...they bother about their own health; and then it is often too late. One is reminded of the old saying: "The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil got well, the devil a monk was he!" And I cannot help quoting a remark made by Dr. CE Page - typical...

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...ditch. Ргот. Shaitân ki maul Tea etebar kyd 1 (lito mará jab jänyejab tija, ho jaê. Prou ) The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Para Shmtun jab mdndah to ki tab fd te taubah, [thä. Uthä jab gusl tehhat pá, to phir pable te duynâ...

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...the devil a bit for love, I'll tell you, Sir." And there is the well-known couplet from Urquhart : The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he! — in which there is a play on the word devil. The final illustration given by Dr. Flood is : " risible...

...employers have become co-operative and industrial relations have improved? Someone gets up and recites: "The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk he'd be'.1" This hostility was sometimes attributed to an ideological anti-capitalism.123 It is true,...

...manly man, to be an abbot able. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 'Prologue', 169-71(1387) 1 1 The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, and the devil a monk he'd be. Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, iv, 24 (1534) trans. PA...

...forgotten in calms." " They who worship God merely for fear, would worship the devil should he appear." " The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." 3415. tí QwQeo iSpSfyuQuitA. Like standing on dirt. Used of the...