Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-06-17
Familiar Quotations.


are as familiar in our mouths as
Words whose origin is either un- !
known or misconcciyed. and withoute ncroach- a
ing upon the sphere of the works devoted to r
this purpose, we may mention a few of them: !
There is death in the pot is from the !.
Bible, 2Kings, iv. 40. Lovely and pleasant !
in their lives, and in death they were not
divided, is spoken of Saul and Jonathan,
Samuel, l, %. "A man after his own heart
l Samuel, xiii, IA. The apple of his eye,'
Deut. xix, 81, "A still small voice. l Kings,
xix, u. Escaped with the skin of my
teeth Job xix, 20. THAT mine adversary
had written a book Job xxi, Sc. Spread
ing himself like a green bay tree Psalm,
xxxvii, IS. Hanged our harp upon the
Willows Psalm ~cxxxvii, 2 Riches certain
ly make mot take, as it is often quoted.
themselves wings Proverbs. xxi, 5. Heap
NO new thing under the sum- Ecclesiastes
j, 9. of making many books there is no end
Ibid. xii, II. Peace, peace, when there is
no peace (made famous by Patrick Henry
Jeremiah vii, IL. MY name is Legion,
Mark 5, 9. TO kick against the pricks,'
Acts TX, 5.
Make a virtue of necessity Shakspeare's
Two Gentlemen of Verona. All that glitters
is not gold,' usually quoted, AN is not gold
that glitters,' Merchant of Venice. Screw
your courage to the sticking place. mot
point Macbeth. Make assurance doubly
, sure Ibid. Hang out our banners on the
outward mot outer wallis Ibid. Keep the
word of promise to our mot they ear but break
> it to our hope,' Ibid. 1t is an i'll wind that
blows no one any good Thomas Tasser,
g 1880. Christmas comes but once a year.
Ibid. Look ere thou leap Ibid. and Look
before you ere you leap Hudibras, COM
monty quoted, Look before you leap Out
of mind as soon as out of sight, usually quo
ted, Out ofsight out of mind Lord Brooke.
What though the field be lost, all is not lost
Milton. Awake, arise, or be forever fallen
Ibid. Necessity, the tyrant's plea Ibid.
THAT old man, eloouent,5 Ibid. peace hath
her Victories Ibid. Though this may be
play to you, It's death to u.s. Roger LES
TRANCE 1704. ALI cry and no WOOL mot
little wool,) Hudibras. Count their chick
ian ems ere mot before) they're hatched,' Ibid.
h. Through thick and thin,' Dryden.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the
tug of war usually quoted, When Greek
meets Greek, then comes the tug of war;
Nathaniel Lee, 1892. of two evils, I have
chose the least Prior. Richard is himself
: again. Colley Cibber. Classic ground,
Addison. AS clear as a whistle Byron,
t is 1853. "A good hater,' Johnsoniana. "A fel-
no low feeling makes one mot US wondrous
owe kind My name is Norval,' John Home
an 1903. Ask me no questions, and I'll tel
1ta- you no fbs,' Goldsmith. Not much the
ore worse for wear (not none the worse, Cow
at per. What will Mrs. Grundy say Thomas
Id Morton. NO pent up Utica contracts you
en- powers Jonathan M. Sewell. Hath givel
old, hostages to fortune Bacon. His Goods
BILE. image cut in ebony Thomas Fuller. wis
de- and mastery inactivity Macintosh in 1871
on though generally attributed to Randolph,
less resolutions presented to House of Represer
%tatives, Dec, 1899. Prepared by Genera
I'm Henry Lee. Millions for defence, but nc
rec. one cent for tribute Charles c.. Pinckney
ept, The Almighty Dollar Washington Irving
even AS good as a play King Charles, whe
e at in Parliament attending the discussion
I Lord Ross's Divorce Bill. Selling a ba,
say, gain is in Loves Labor Lost. Fast an
eing loose Ibid. Pumping a man, Oteway
eek, Venice Preserved. Go snacks,' Pope's PR
d be logue to Satires. In the wrong box Fox
hon Martyrs. To lamn in the sense of to hea
lme, King and no King, by Beaumont and Fletcl
BUS err The hackneyed newspaper Latin quot
ami ton, Temporal muntantur, nosset mutam,
> too in Ills is not found in any classic or Lat
tune author. The nearest approach to it wa
the Omnia muntatur, etc. and this is found
but Borbonius, a German writer of the midi
the ages.
e. Smelling of the lamp is to be found
len l Plutarch, and is there attributed to Pythea
cath "A little bird told me- comes from Ecclesif
ties K, 20. For a bird of the air shall car
u oc- the voice, and that which hath wings sh;
him., tell the matter
d, at ,
ntial, = tnat ngnts ana runs away,
lrned May live to fight another day.
knee, These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibr.
are really much older. They are to be fou
lr fell in a book published in 1856. The samei id
ieve is, however, expressed in a couplet publish
licate IN 1912, while one of the fragments of n
nander, the Greek writer, that have be
serve preserved, embodies the same idea in a 81
gle line. The couplet in Hudibras is:
not so For
r ye! which be can noun 10y NV agaln,
Hell is paved with good Intentions, thon
mis- found In johnson and Herbert, was obyio
that y IN their day a proverbial expression
oss OF Walter Scott ascribes it to some stern old
open yine.'
There's is a good time coming is an
preston used by Sir Walter Scot in Rob r
lat as and has doubtless, for a long time. bee
sixty familiar saying in Scotland.
N she Eripuit c9lo fulmen, sceptrumuue tyr
loney, mis-, was a line upon franklin, written
what, TurgOt, the minister of Louis XVI. It
however, merely a modification of a line
Cafdinal Hollgnac, ErlpultQue JoVi fulm
1T like Pheboxue sagittas, which in turn was tai
want from a line of Marcus Nautilus, who saw,
k hts Epieurus Eripuitque Joyi fulmen yiresc
Tonanti.
said ]. Vox populi, Vox Del. The origin of
Old familiar phrase is not known, but it is q
mel a ted as a proverb by William of Malmesbu
J; and who lived in the early part of the Tive
mar Century.
lie text Ultima ratio regum. This motto uos
we an grayed on the French cannon by order
Ike the Louis XIV.
finger
think uolNd 10 ~UNTRT.
Christian does not turn his back upon
things of this world, because he has
natural capacity to enjoy them, no i.
worth for them but because the Holy Spirit
shown him greater and better things.
/, you Ous wants flowers that will never fade he W.
you. something that a man can take with bin
NO let. another world. He is like a man who
heavy had. notice to quit his house, and hay
secured q new one, he is no more anxi
'ou'nat to repair, much less to embellish
price beautify the old one; his thoughts are
as on the house to which he is going. Til
stay, er he sends his goods and thus he decl
and plainly what he is seeking.-Ceciz