Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-06-09
Familiar Quotations.

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There are many phrases and quotations
which are as familiar in our mouths as house.
hold words" whose origin is either unknown
or misconceived, and without encroaching
upon the sphere Of the works devoted to this
purpose, we may mention o few Of them
"irhere is death in the pot" is from the
| Bible, Kings iv 40. Lovely and pleasant
in their lives, and in death they were not divi.
ded." is spoken of Saul and Jonathan, 2
Samuel %. "a man after his own heart"
Samuel xiii IA. "The apple Of his eye,"
Deut. xix 2l. "a still small voice. Kings
xix IL. Escaped with the skin ofmy teeth"
Job xix 20. THAT mine adversary had
written q book" Job xxi 80. spreading
himself like green bay tree" Psalm xxxvii
35. Hanged our harps upon the willows"
| Psalm cxxxvii 2. "Riches certainly make
foot take, as it is often quotod) themselves
wings" Proverbs, xiii 5. "Heap Goals Of
| fire upon his head" Ibid XIV %. "No new
thing under the sum-" Ecclesiastes 9. "Of
making many books there is no end, Ibid. xii
| IL. Peace peace, when there is no peace"
(made famous by Patrick Henry Jeremiah
vii IL. only name is Legion" Mark o.
ITO kick against the pricks," Acts ix o.
make virtue Of necessity" Shakespeare's
Two Gentlemen of Verona. "All that glitters
is not gold" usually quoted, "All is not gold
that glitters," Merchant of Venice. "Screw
your courage to the sticking place." (not
! point Macbeth. "Make assurance doubly
sure, Ibid. Hang out your banners on the
outward mot outer) walls, Ibid. keep the
word of promise to our (not he) ear, but
break it to our hope," Ibid.
ats on i'll wind turns none to good" usually
quoted, "It's an i'll wind that blows no one
any good" Thomas Tasser, 1880 "Christ-
mas comes but once year." Ibid. Look, ere
you 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 for ever
fallen," Ibid. Necessity, the tyrnnt's plea" !"
Ibid. THAT old man, eloquent" Ibid
Peace hath her victories" Ibid. Though
this may be play to you, tits death to US"
Roger L'Estrange, 1894. "All cry and no
wool" mot lt.le wool,) Hudibras. Count
their chickens ere mot before) they're hatch
ed" Ibid Through thick and thin," Dry
den. 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,
| have chose the least" Prior. Orchard is
himself again." Colley Cibbcr. "Classic
ground" Addison. GAS clear as whistle,
Byron, l7G4. "a good hater," Johnsoniana.
"a fellow feeling makes one not u.s. wond-
rous kind" "My name is NorvaI," John
Home, 1908. "Ask me no questions and III
tell you no fbs," Goldsmith. mot much the
worse for wear" mot none the worse,) Cow
per. "What will Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas
Morton. "No pent up Utica contracts your
| Iobpatbop NJ Saual
Hath given hostages to the future" Bacon
"His (Gods) image cut in ebony" Thomas
Cutler. "Wise and mastery inactivity
Macintosh, in 1871, though generally ut
tributed to Randolph. First in war, first IL
peace, and first in the hearts Of his fellow
citizens" (not countryneu) resolutions pre-
sented to the House OF Representatives, Dec.
1899. Prepared by General Henry Lee
millions for Defence but not one cent io
} tribute" Charles G. Pinckney. "The AL
! mighty Dollar" Washington Irving. "a!
, good as play" King Charles. when in Par
lament, attending the discussion OF Lore
Rosss Divorce Bill. "Selling bargain. il
in Loves Lost. "Fast and loose" Ibid
Pumping O man." Ottway's Venice Pre-
, served. "Go snacks," Pope's prologue t.
Satires. In the wrong box" Fox's Mar
tyrs. "To lamm in the sense of to heal, KIM
4 aud no King, by Beaumont and Fletcher
, The hackneyed newspaper Latin quotation
: "Tempora mutantur, nos ct mutamur in ILLS,
is not found in any classic or Latin author
The nearest approach to it was COMMA mu
tantur, etc." and this is found in Borbonius
y German writer of the middle ages.
t "Smelling of the lamp" is to be found i
|. Plutarch, and is there attributed to Pythias
4 "a little bird told me-" comes from Eccles
y astes, x. 20 "For q bid of the air sha
3 carry the voice, and that which hath wing
;. shall tell the matter"
d lie that fights and runs away,
, May live to fight another day
# These lines, generally attributed TO Hud
Q bras ore really much older. They are to b
g found in book published in 1856. The sam
o idea is however expressed in couplet put
It .ished in l542 while one of the few fragment
l. of Menander, the Greek writer, that hay
}. preserved, embodies the same idea in singl
Q line. The couplet in Hudibras is
Q For those that fly may fight again,
o Which he can never do that's slain.
II "Hell is paved with good intentions
o though found in johnson and Herbert, wa
g obviously in their day proverbial expression
6 Walter Scott ascribes it to "some stern ol
D. divine"
y There's good time a coming" is an e.
s. preston used by Sir w ailer Scott IN ho
IT Roy, and has doubtless for long time bee
'r familiar saying in Scotland.
y Eripuit cGlo GIIn'ea, sceptrunque ryrdnnt
IT was line upon Franklin, written by Turgo
D. the minister of Louis XVI. 1t is, howeve
p merely modification of line by Cardini
t. Poliguac, Eripuitque JsCi Julmen, Phoboqr
p sa gittas, which iu turn was taken from q lin
1t of Marcus Manlius, who says OF Epicurus En-
is puifQue Jovi fIlmea vireSque IoHanh.
b V0r pOpuli, For Del. The origin OF th
IT, familiar phrase is not known, but it is quote
b. as proverb by William of Malmesbury, wi
a lived in the early part of the twelfth centar
IN Ultima ratio regum. This motto was e
Z grayed on the French cannon by order
80 Lous XIV.
whistlmg girls and and growing hens
oi Always come some bad end
IT, In one of the curious Chinese books !
Gently translated and published in Paris, IL
proverb Occurs in substantially the sar
OF words 1t is also an injunction Of the Chine
" priesthood, and carefully observed hous
ls' hold custom, to kill Immediately every b
s that crows, as preventive against mis- {
OF tune which the circumstance is supposed
IN indicate. The same practice prevails throug
ry out many portions OF the United States.
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