God never sends mouths but He sends meat

God never sends mouths but He sends meat

1377 LANGLAND Piers Plowman B. XIV. 39 For lente neuere was lyf but lyflode [livelihood] were shapen.

1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iv. B1 God neuer sendeth mouthe, but he sendeth meat.

1832 J. P. KENNEDY Swallow Barn I. xxviii. God never sends mouths..but he sends meat, and any man who has sense enough to be honest, will never want wit to know how to live.

1905 A. MACLAREN Gospel according to St. Matthew I. 103 We are meant to be righteous, and shall not in vain desire to be so. God never sends mouths but He sends meat to fill them.


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