, 1857-09-04
Familiar Quotations.

|. Of Saul and Jonathan, Samuel i. %.
A man after his own heart" l Samue
i xiii IA.
The apple of his eye" Deut. xix 81.
"A still small voice." Kings xix u.
Q Escaped with the skin of my teeth,
; Job xix 90
"That mine adversary had written
book Job xxi 35.
Spreading himself like a green ba!
tree" Psalm xxxvii 35.
Hanged our harp upon the willows,
cxxxvii 3.
"Richcs certainly make mot take, as i
is often quoted) themselves Wings" Prov
cribs xiii 5.
"Heaps Goals Of FIRE upon his head,
Ibid. XXv %.
"NS new thing under the sum-" Ecclcsi
astes 0.
"Of making many books there is nc
end" xii l9.
Peace, peace, when there is no peace,
(made famous by Patrick Henry,) Jere
miah viii IL.
"My name d Legion Mark o.
/" To kick against the pricks," Acts tx 5
make virtue of necessity" Shak,
speare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
"All that glisters is not gold," usually
quoted, "All is not gold that glitters,' ,
Merchant of Venice.
"Screw your courage to the sticking
place" (not paint Macbeth.
Make assurance douby sure" Ibid.
Hang out your banners on the cut
ward (not outer) walls" Ibid.
Keep the word of promise 10 our (not
the) ear, but break it to our hope" Ibid,
-"It is an i'll wind that turns to no good,
usually quoted, Its an i'll wind that blows
no one any good" Thomas Tasscr, 1880.
Christmas 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,
usually quoted, "Out of sight, out of mind,
Lord Brooke.
"What though the field be lost, all is
not lost" Milton.
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen, y
Ibid.
Necessity, the tyront's plea" Ibid
"That old man. eloquent" IBID.
Peace hath her victories" IBID
"Though this may be play to you, 'tis
death to u.s." Roger LEstrange, FO4.
"All cry and no WOOL" (not little wool
Hudibras.
"Count their chickens ere quot before)
they're hatched," Ibid. -"
Through thick and thin" Dryden.
"When Greek joined Greek, 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.
Richard is himself again." Colley Glib
ber
"Classic ground" Addison.
."As clear as q whistle" Byron, 1853.
"a good hater," Johnsoniana.
"a fellow feeling makes one (not u.s.
wondrous kind" ..
"My name is Norval," John Home,
1908. ..
"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you
no Gbs," Goldsmith.
mot much the worse for wear" (not
none the worse Cowper.
What will Mrs. .Grundy say" Thomas
Morton
" No pent up Utica contracts your pow
ers," Jona. Sewell
"Hath given hostages to fortune" Ba
kcr.
"His (God'sV image cut in ebony,
Thomas Fuller.
"Wise and mastery inactivity" Mack
intosh, in 1871, though generally attribu
ted to Randolph.
First in war, first in peace. and first il
the hearts of his fellow-citizens," (not coun
trymen) resolutions presented to House o
Representatives, Dec, 1899 prepared BY
Cen Henry Lee. -f
"Millons for defence, but not one cent
for tribute" Charles c. Pinkuey.
"The almighty dollar" Washington lr
wing.
"As good as a play" King Charles
when in Parliament, attending the discuss
ion of Lord Ross Divorce Bill.
"Selling a bargain" is in Loves Labol
Lost
g" Fast and loose" Ibid. @
Pumping a man." Oteway's Venice
Preserved.
"Go snacks," Pope's prologue to Satires
In the wrong box" Fox's Martyrs.
"To lamm in the sense Of to heal" kine
and no King, by Beaumont and Fletcher.
Smelling Of the lamp" is to be fOunt
in Plutarch, and is there attributed tt
, Pytheas. ...
A little bird told me-" comes from Eecle
siastes 90, "for a bird of the air shal
carry the voice, and that which hath wing
shall tell the matter"