A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

pick see HAWKS will not pick out hawks’ eyes; see a PIN and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck.
pickle (small quantity): see MANY a little makes a mickle.
One PICTURE is worth ten thousand words
There is no foundation to the ascription of Chinese origin in quots 1925 and 1927.

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  1921 Printers Ink 8 Dec. 96 One look is worth a thousand words. 1925 Washington Post 26 July (Amusements section) 2/2 ‘The picture is worth ten thousand words.’ So says an old Chinese proverb. 1927 Printers’ Ink 10 Mar. 114 Chinese proverb, One picture is worth ten thousand words. 1954 R. HAYDN Journal of Edwin Carp 90 ‘One picture speaks louder than ten thousand words.’ Mr. Bovey repeated the adage this morning when.. he handed me my finished portrait. 1979 Scientific American Oct. 118 A picture is worth a thousand words. 2001 New Scientist 17 Nov. 59 [In a photograph] the mask is being worn with the bottom strap cut off or dangling. A picture is worth a thousand words, but here are eight to redress the balance: ‘If there’s only one strap, it’s probably crap.’ “example, good and bad; illustration
  

Every PICTURE tells a story
Quot. 1847 antedates the use of this saying as an advertiser’s catch-phrase.

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  1847 C. BRONTE Jane Eyre I. i. The letter-press.. I cared little for. .. Each picture told a story. 1904 Daily Mail 26 Feb. 8 A London woman and Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills. .. ‘Every picture tells a story.’ 1967 E. WILLIAMS Beyond Belief iv. xxiii. Every Picture Tells a Story. .. Sergeant Carr stood with his.. back to the fireplace, the lady next to the budgie, the dog next to her. 2001 Times Literary Supplement 2 Nov. 8 ‘We extend that which is limited by a frame to before and after, and through the craft of telling stories.. we lend the immutable picture an infinite and inexhaustible life.’ This is not merely a gloss on ‘every picture tells a story’, but an unfashionably specific and an unfashionably true observation. “example, good and bad; illustration