 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1899 - 412 sider
...of proverbs, contradicting each other, were summoned to strengthen opposite sides of the argument. " If she will, she will, you may depend on't ; and if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't ! " seemed a doggerel replete with wisdom, till he reflected that " constant... | |
 | 1903 - 654 sider
...these lines ? That man's a fool who tries by force or skill To stem the current of a woman's will; For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. Yours truly, JRJ, Albuquerque, New Mexico. These lines seem to be the blending... | |
 | 1905 - 120 sider
...Allen Butler. 75 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, so there's an end on't (These lines are copied from the pillar on the Dane, John Field, Canterbury, England.) Men dying, make... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1905 - 278 sider
...are told :— " The man's a fool who tries by force or skill To stem the current of a woman's will, For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't ;" which reminds us of what Terence wrote : " I know what a woman's temper... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1906 - 278 sider
...are told : — " The man's a fool who tries by force or skill To stem the current of a woman's will, For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't ;" which reminds us of what Terence wrote : " I know what a woman's temper... | |
 | 1909 - 448 sider
...to argue : — Where is the man who has the power and skill, To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she wont, she wont; so there's an end on't. At the same time, I am aware that many travellers largely receive their orders from female buyers,... | |
 | 1909 - 432 sider
...1829) the linee— Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she won't, she wont; so there's an end on't. Similar citntions a-nncer in '' Bartlott'e Familier Quotations."— Ed. "N. and Q."] 314. " ABTLESS... | |
 | Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton - 1910 - 414 sider
...time, while a sister, of the same brood, may simply not lay at all. Being feminine, it is a matter of " if she will, she will, you may depend on't; and if she won't she won't; so there's an end on't" — except that one must be ready to go further and promptly make a salad-end of the offender. But... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 sider
...Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And...if she won't, she won't ; so there's an end on't. 5785 Copied from the pillar erectedon the mount in the Dane . John Field, Canterbury. [Examiner: May... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1911 - 524 sider
...voice, . . . there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. 4. For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't. 5. The secret wouldst thou know To fire the blood and touch the heart at will,... | |
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A man's a fool who strives by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't — and there's an end on't. 
