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From "Things not Generally Known" by D. A. Wells.
q 81 FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

From "Things not Generally Known" by d. A. Wells
S. sss FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. q
There are many phrases and quotations which are
rs familiar in our. mouths as household words"
whose origin is either unknown misconceived,
and. without encroaching upon the sphere OF the
| works devoted to this purpose, We may ment'on
| few of them:
"There is death in the pot" is from the Bible,
Kings, iv. 49, Lovely and pleasant in their lives
and in death they were not divided, }" is spoken OF
Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel, i. %. "a man af-
of his eye" Dcut., xix. 81. "A still small voice"
| l Kings, xix 10. Escaped with the skin of my
teeth" Job xix 20. "That mine adversary had writ
ten a book" Job, xxi. 3d. "Spreading himself like
a green bay tree" Psalm xxxvi. s5 -" Hanged our
harps upon the willows" Psalm, cxxxii. O. Rich
make mot take, it is often quoted) themselves
wings" Proverbs xiii. 5. "Heap Goals Of fire up
| on his head" Ibid XIV. %. No new thing under
| the sum- 9. "Of making many books there is
no end" Ibid, xii. 10. Peace. peace when there
is no peace" (made famous by Patrick Henry0 Jer-
emiah, viii. ii. my name is legion" Mark, w.
! "To kick against the pricks," Acts tx. 8: Make
a virtue of necessity" Shakspeares Two Gentlemen
of Verona "All that glitters is not gold usually
quoted "All is not gold that gtters," Merchant Of
, mot point,) Macbeth MAKE assurance doubly
sure" Ibid Hang out our banners on the out.
ward mot outer) walls" Ibid keep the word Of
promise to our mot the) ear, but break it to our
hope," Ibid. ut is an i'll wind that turns none to
good" usually quoted, ITS an i'll wind that blows
mas comes but once year." Ibid. LOOK ere thou
leap" Ibid and "Look before you ere you leap"
Hudibras, commonly quoted, Look before you
leap. "Out of mind as soon as out of sight" usu.
ally quoted "Out of sight, out of mind" Lord
Brooke "What though the field be lost, all is not
Ibid. Necessity, the tyrant's plea" Ibid: THAT
old man, eloquent" Ibid. peace hath her victo-
ries" Ibid. Though this may be play to you, It's
death to u.s." Roger LEstrange, l704. "All cry
and no WOOL" mot little woody IIudibras. {" Count
their chickens (no: before) they're Matched"
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 have chose the least" Prior. Rich
ard is himself again." Colley Cibber. "Classic
ground" Addison As clear whistle" Byron,
1868. "a good hater" Johnsiana. "a fellow feel
ing makes one mot u.s. wondrous kind, Garrck-
'My name is Norva, - John Home, 1905. " Ask
| me no questions, and III tell you no fibs, Gold
smith, mot much the worse for wear" (not none
| the worseD Cowper. What will Mrs Grundy say"
Thomas Morton. mo pent up Utica contracts
your powers" John NJ Scwell. " Hath given hos
tages to fortune" Bacon. His Gods image cut
in ebony Thomas Fuller. "WiSe and mastery in
activity, " Macintosh in 1901, though generally at
tributed to Randolph First in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts Of his fellow citizens mot
count,ymen} resolutions presented to the House OF
Representatives December, 1899, prepared by Gen.
Henry Lee. millions for defence, but not one cent
for tribute" Charles c. Pinckney. 1.-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." Otway's Venice Preserv-
ed "Go snacks" Popes prologue to Satires I'm
the wrong box" Foxs Martyrs. ITO lamm in the
sense of to heal" King and no King, by Beaumont
and Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper Latin quo
tation, "Tempora Elutantur, nos ct mutamus in IL
lis, is not found in any classic Latin author
The nearest approach to it was "Omnia matautur,"
&C., and this is found in Borbonius, German wri.
ter of the middle ages.
"Smeling of the lamp" is to be found in Plu.
tarch and is there attributed to Pytheas A little
bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which
hath wings shall tell the matter
"IIe that fights and away
May live to fight another day.
These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras,
ally much older. They to be found in q book
published in 1856. The same idea is, however, ex.
pressed in a coupet published in 1912, while one of
the few fragments of Menander, the Greek writer,
that have been preserved, embodes the idea in
a single line The couplet in Hudibras is
.For those that fly may fight again:
Which he can never do that's san.'
-" There good time coming, Is an expression
used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and has
doubtless for long time been familiar saying in
Scotland.
Ertpuat c0to fnt'nen sceptrumque ty7rdnts, was
line upon Franklin, written by Turgot, the minister
of Louis XVI. 1t is, however, m, rely a moditica-
ton Of line by Cardinal Polignac Eripuitque Jo-
rifulmen, Pha6cque sngitfas, which in turn ia
ken from q line of Marcus Nautilus, who says of
Epicurus, Eripvitque Jori tulmen riresque To-
ndnti.
Tor popul, Vor DEL The origin of this famil-
lar phrase is not known, but it is quoted Prov
erb by William of Malmesbury, who lived in the
early part of the twelfth century.
Ultima ratio regum. This motto was engraved
on the French cannon by order of Louis XIV.
"Whisng girls and growing hens,
Always come to some bad ends
In one of the curious Chinese books recently
translated and published in Paris this proverb
ours in substantially the same words. 1t is also an
injunction of the Chinese priesthood. and a careful
ly observed household custom, to kill Immediately
every hen that crows, as preventive against the
misfortune which the circumstance is supposed to
indicate. The same practice prevails throughout
many portions of the United States.
this city yesterday (Monda) morning, which, for the
singularity of its denouement, is, perhaps, unpara
lelled in the annals of single combat A well known
gentleman in this community, whom we shall call
Mr.. A. feeling himself aggrieved by the conduct of
another gentleman, whom we shall designate as Mr.
B., sent him a challenge, which was accepted
weapons pistols distance twelve PAGES; time six o.
clock in the morning. The usual preliminaries were
settled and at the word fire, both pistols explo-
The seconds rushed up, when it was found that the
ball had struck the outer case of his hunting watch,