Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-01
E%VERYBODY'S WORDS.
Where Familiar Quotations Como
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From.
= "There is death in the pot is from III
Bible, 2 Kings, iv. 40. "Lovelv an.
; pleasant in their lives, and in death the
& were not divided" is spoken of Saul an,
0 jonathan, 2 Samuel, xiii. II. 1.-THE appl
. OF his eye Deut. xix. 81. "a still, SINAI
j voice" Kings, xix. y. Escaped will
e the skin Of my teeth" Job xix. 20. "Tha
mine adversary had written a book Job
? xxi. 35. Spreading himself ike a greer
bay tree, Psalm xxxvii. 2. "Riches GER
! tainly make mot take, as it is often quo.
! ted themselves wings" Proverbs xiii
.. "Heap Goals of fire upon his head
Ibid, XIV %. "No new thing under the
sun" Ecclesiastes, i. 9. "Of making many
books there is no end" Ibid. Xii IL.
peace, peace, when there is no peace.
made famous by Patrick Henry) Jere-
miah, viii. II. my name is LEGION. -
Mark, V. 8. "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,D usually
quoted, "All is not gold that glitters,
Merchant of Venice. "Screw your cour-
age to the sticking place" mot point
Macbeth. "Make assurance doubly sure, -
Ibid. "Hang out your banners upon the
outer walls Ibid. "Keep the word of
promise to our mot he) ear, but break it
to our hope" Ibid.
"Its an III wind turnsno good usually
quoted ats an i'll wind blows no n any
good, Thomas Tasser, 1880. "Christmas
comes but once a year" Ibid. "Look ere
you leap Hudibras, commonly quoted.
Look before you leap" aOut of mind as
soon as out Of sight" usually quoted ssOut
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 t~vrant's
plea" Ibid. "The old man eloquent"
Ibid. Peace hath her victories Ibid.
Though this may be play to you, It's
death to us, Roger Lstrange, 1904. ~AU
cry and no wool" mot little WOOL Hudi-
bras. "Count their chickens ere mot be-
fore) they are hatched,' Ibid. "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 l have chosen
the least" Prior. "Richard is himself
AGAIN. Colley Cibber. "Classic ground,
Addison. "a good hater," johnson. .tMv
anne is Norval," John Home, 1908. "Ask
me no questions and I'll tell You no fbs."
Goldsmith. mot much the worse for
wear mot none the worse) Cowper.
"What viii Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas
"NO pent up Utica contracts our
power, Jonathan Sewell. "Hath given
hostages to fortune Bacon. "His (God's)
image cut in ebony" Thomas Fuller.
Wise and mastery inactivity Mackin-
5osh, in 1871, though generally attributed
John Randolph. "First in war. first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow
s%itizens,n mot c~ountrymen,) Resolutions
presented 10 the House of Representatives.
December, 1893, prepared by Gen. Henry
Lee. "Millions FOR defeuce, but not one /
'ent for tribute" Charles C.. Pinckney.
The Almighty Dollar" Washington r.
"As good as a play King Charles, !
when in Parliament, attending the dis .
ussion of Lord Ross divorce bill. "Sell- !
ng a bargain" is in Loves Labor Lost !
-fasJ ana loose Ib1u. pumping a man, :
Venice Preserved. go Snacks, :
Prologue to Satires. ain the wrong :
Fox's Martyrs. 'TO LAM" in the !
Of to beat; King and no King, by !
beaumont and Fletcher. The hackneyed
newspaper Latin quotation, "Tenpord1au- :.
qHtUre nos ct mutamur- IN Ills is not !
ound in any classic or Latin author. The I
earest approach to it was, "OntniG ma =
etc, and this is found in Bor- !
onius, a German writer of the middle =
ges. ;
Smelling of the lamp is to be found =
! Plutarch, and is there attributed to q
'ythias. "a little bird told me" comes Il
'om Ecclesiastes, X. 20: "For a bird of v
be air shall carry the voice, and that a
-hich hath wings shall tell the matter" ].
'fHe that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day" l..
These lines, generally attributed to y
Iudibras, are really much older. They !;
re to be found in a book published IN y
G56. The same idea is, however, ex- -
ressed in a cOuplet published in 1912, y
lille one of the few fragments of =
[enander, the Greek writer, that have u
cen preserved, embodies the same idea in 2
line. The couplet in Hudibras is: Y
'eFor those that fly may fight again, p
Which he can never do that's siain.'' -
"Hell is paved with good intentions" II
found in johnson and Herbert, y!
as obviously in that day a proverbial y =
Ipression. Walter Scott ascribes it to
'stern old divine"
There's a good time coming" is an ex- -
ression used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob
and has doubtless for a long time
zen a familiar saying in Scotland. .
Ef5paHt egtO fatHaeH, sceptrt0npqUe ty- NJ
was a line upon Franklin, written
: Turgot, the minister of Louis XVI. 1t
however, merely a modification of a
ne BY Cardinal Polignac, EripWitque Jori
linen, / hosbogue sagittis, which in turn
as taken from a line of Marcus Manil-
IS, who says of Epicurus, Eripurigue
,Ui fuImen riresque TonGti o.
Vor pop,di, pon Del. The origin of this Oh
miliar phrase is not known, but it is
loted as a proverb by William of Mains :,
Try, who lived in the early part of the
century.
Ultinao ratio re0ana. This motto was ,
igraved on the French cannon by order !
Louis XIV.
''whistIing girls and growing hens,
Always come 10 some bad ends.'
In one of the curious Chinese books re- u
ntly translated and published in Paris r
is proverb occurs in substantially the "
me words. 1t is an injunction of the
hinese priesthood, and a carefully OBJ
rived household custom to kill imme-
every hen that crows, as a preven-
We against the misfortune that the cir =
supposes to indicate. The
me practice prevails through many por- -
ons of the United States.-Things Not u
eneraLly RnolDn.
A Loose Elephant. a.
From the Philadelphia Press, November PSI
After twelve O'Clock on Sunday night,