...there 1 The dangers of shooting the bridge were so great that a popular proverb has it — " London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under." 2 The Courts of Chancery and King's Bench were long held at the upper end of the hall. It is related...

...on wool which helped to defray its cost. A similar basis, in fact, exists for the saying that London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under. This harks us back to the danger which for centuries beset the "shooting" of the bridge by small boats...

...off place" for suicides was in Hood's mind is highly probable. An old London proverb ran: " London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under." Nevertheless Walter Thornbury, in his Haunted London, thinks Waterloo Bridge was the place intended,...

...executions, for nearly all have something to say on the matter. But the bridge, says an old proverb, was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under. So rapid was the ebb and flow that a mill could have been kept at work between any of the arches, and...

...re-embarking. Imprudent travellers, risking the danger, frequently fell victims, hence the proverb ' London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under '. In Norden's map of London Bridge, 1 624, a boat is shown overset, and the passengers struggling...

...swift-flowing waters, was always more or less dangerous, and according to one of Ray's proverbs, 1737, " London Bridge was made for wise men to go over, and fools to go under." With the flood tide it was impossible to shoot through the arches of the bridge, and with ebb tide...

...ebb-tide dangerous, to pass through or shoot the arches of the bridge." Hence the proverb: "London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and fools to go under". Chamberlain writes to Carleton (Dec. 18th 1611) that three people have just been drowned in an attempt...

...mills and waterworks created dangerously rapid water, amply justifying the contemporary saying that it was made for 'wise men to go over and fools to go under'. Up river, the water was regularly impounded by weirs through which ferries and cargoes had to pass...

...The streets of London are paved with gold When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life London Bridge was made for wise men to go over, and fools to go under Lone The lone sheep is in danger of the wolf Long Long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past...