Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-02
THE EVENING STAR
FAMILIAR QUorATIoNx
" f0"i rnihgs Not Generally Known" by d

hLhAh QUOTATIONS,
"sS Not Generally Known" by d.
There are many phrases and opotations
t,S tnSn arc as f.miliar in our mouths as house
nold words, whose origin is either unknown
% q. mlsconcs.yed, and without encroaching upon
me sp<efe Of the works devoted to this pur-
Ps we may mention a few of them:
=" There Is death in the pot, is from the BIZ
bic, Kings, iy. 40.
Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in
death they were not divided" is spoken of
saul and Jonathan, Samuel i. 90
81 man after his own heart" Samuel
xiii. IA.
The apple Of his eye" Deut. xix. 2l
a still small voice" Kings XIX. I2
Escaped with the skin of my tssth,'' Job
xix 20.
- That mine adversary had written q book, :"
Job xxi. 35.
Spreading himself like green bay tree. y
Psalm xIxvii. 35.
Hanged our harp upon the Willows" Psalm
cI1xvii- 2
Riches certainly make mot take, as il is
often quotedD themselves wings" Proverbs
xiii. ).
Heaps Goals of fire upon his head,'' Ibid.
XIV %
No new thing under the sun" Ecclesiastes
of making many books there is no end
xii I2
Peace. peace, when there is no peace.
tmade famous by Patrick Henry,) jeremiah
viii. H.
My name is LEGION Mark V. 9.
. To kick against the pricks.' Acts tx 5
Make u virtue of necessity" Shakspeare's
Two Gentlemen of Verona
All that gliSters is not gold,'' usually
quoted "All Is not gold that glitters,' Mer-
chant of Venice.
Screw your courage to the sticking place."
mot poiHt.) Macbeth.
Make assurance dOubly sure Ibid.
Hang out your banners on the outward mot
outer walls" Ibid
Keep the word Of promise to our mot the)
ear. but break 1T to our hope, Ibid
Ii is an i'll wind that turns to no good -
usually quoted, It's an i'll wind that blows
EO one any good, Thomas TasSer 1850.
Christina. comes but once a year" Ibid.
Look, ere thou leap" Ibid; and Look
before you, ere you leap" Hudibras common
ly quoted, = Look before you leap
Out of mind a. soon as out of sight" usual
ly quoted, Out Of sight, ont of mind" Lord
Brooke.
What though the field be lost, all is not
lost, >" Milton.
Awake. arise, or be forever fallen.'' Ibid.
Necessity, the tyrants plea" Ibid.
That old man, eloquent" Ibid.
Peace hath her vistories,'' Ibid.
Though this may be play to you tis death
TO Us, - Roger L'Estrange, 1904
All cry and no wool, (not little wool) Hu-
dibras
Count their chickens ere mot before) they're
hatched," Ibid
Through thick and thin, - Dryden.
When creeks joined Greek, then was the
meets Greek, then comes the tug of wal, =" Ma
thaniel Lee. 1892.
''Of two evils, have chose the least, - Prior.
Richard Is himself again" COlley Cibber
. Classic ground" Addison.
g As clear a. a whistle" Byron, 1853
"A good hater," Johnsoniana
fellow feeling makes one mot us) won
drOus kind -
My name is Norval." John Home, 1905
-" Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no
fbs," Goldsmith.
e. Not much the worse for wear" mot none
the wOr5e,) COwper.
What will Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas
Morton.
No Pent up Utica contracts your powers,
iona. " Sewell
Hath given hostages to fortune" Bacon.
:. His God . image cut in ebony" Thomas
Fuller.
Wise and mastery inactivity, a" Macintosh.
N l79l, though generally attributed to Ran
dolph
First in war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his fellow-citizens," =" mot countrymen0
resolutions presented to House of Representa-
tives, Dec, 1899; prepared by Gen Henry Lee
Millions for defence, but not one cent for
tribute" Charles c. Pinkney.
The almighty dollar, Washington Irving.
As good as play" King Charles, when in
Parliament, attending the discussion of Lord
Ross Divorce Bill.
Selling a bargain" is in Loves labor
Lost
Fast and loose" Ibid.
Pumping man" Oteway's Venice Pre-
Go snacks," Pope's prologue to Satires
In the wrong box; Eox's Martyrs.
TO lamm in the sense Of to heal King and
no King, by Beaumont and Fletcher
Ihe hackneyed newspaper Latin quotation,
{ Ts1tPOTG mHtaHtHr, nos ct Dtnta1tns in III
hs." IL not found in any classic or Latin utbor.
The nearest approach to it was, Omnia n,u-
taRtHT. ete-, and this is found in BOrbonius
German writer Of the middle ages.
Smelling Of the lamp" is to be found in
Plutarch, and Is there attributed to Pytheas
A little bird told me-" comes from EccIesi-
sstes Z. 20. =. for a bird of the air shall carry
the voice, and that which hath wings shall
tell the matter"
Is He that fights and runs away,
May live TO fight another day.
These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras.
are reall much older. They are to be found
IN book published in 1856. The same idea
,. however expressed in a cOuplet published in
1872. while one of the few fragments of Menan-
der the Greek writer that have bsen presery-
ed. embOdles the same idea in q single line
The eouplet in Hudibras il,
{. For those that hy may fight again
Which he can never do that's Siain'
= There's good time coming, is an express
zion used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and
has doubtless, for a long time, been a familiar
laying in Scotland.
EJiPntt c9k0 fui1tiR, sesptrnDsyue fvyan-
ms, was line upon Franklin, written by Tur-
got the Minister Of Louis XVI It's. howev-
er, merely a modification of line by Cardinal
Polignac, ETipHitqne Joel Fnimsli. Ph9Boqne
sagIttGy, which, in turn was taken from line
If Marcus Manilius. who says Of Epicurus.
EupHttqHe JOri fHiBseH rircSgKi TonaHti
V0E pOPHtIi, Yo-r Del. The origin Of this
fImiliar phrase IL not known. but il is quoted
proverb by William of Malmesbury. who
lived in the early part of the 18th century
UItIUtn TdkEO TFOHU. This motto was on