American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-09-15
Where Familiar Quotations Come
can From.

were not divided" is spoken Of Saul and
Jonathan. 2 Samueli /. 23 "A man after
his own heart" Samuel xiii. l9. "The
apple ofhis eye" Dent. xix. 81. "a
Istill small voice" Kings xix, I2 Is.
capped with The skin ofmy teeth, job XXX.
co. That mine adversary had written
a boob" "Jcb xxi. 35. Spreading him
Iselflse green bay tlee, Psalm xxxyii
60 Hanged our harps upor tie vii
low" Psalm cxxxsii. e. Riches Ger
tsinly make fnot take. as it is ofita quo
ted themselves wings" Proverbs xxiii
5, Heap Goals Of fire up hi, head, :"
Ibid. XIV. % No new ding Gader the
sum-" Ecciesiastes i. 8. "Of making m
books there is no end" bid. xii. I2.
"Peace, peace. VIXEN here ia nc peace ="
(made famous By Pairick Henry. Gen.
viii. 2. "My name is lie 4ioG." Marx
70. To kick against the picks." Acts
| tx. 5. Maze virtne of necessi,y,"
shakspesre's Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
"All is not gold tia. glitters." M,rchaut
of Venice. Screw your courage to
sticking place." (oot point Macbeth.
"Make assurance donbly sure," Ibid.
" Hang out your banners npon the out
ward walls" Ibid. " Ke p The word OF
promise to our not the) ear, but break
it to our hope" Ibid "It's an III wind
turns no good" usually quoted, "It's an
III wind blows no one any Fo5t.' Tbos.
Tassar, 1850. "Christy.s comes but
once year." IbId. Lock ere yon
leap" Ibid. and Lolk before you ere
you leap" lIudibras. 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 ty.
rants plea," bid peace hath her
victories" Ibid. Though this may b.
play to you, lis death 10 u.s." Roger
i'Estrange, 1904 "AjI cry and no wool"
(not little wocl,) Hudibras. Count
their chickens ere (not oefore) they are
hatched." Ibid. Through thick and
thin" Dryden. WHEN Greeks Joined .
Greeks, then was the tug of var" usually |
quoted, when Greek meets Greek, then |
comes the tug of war;" Nathaniel Lee,
I692. "Oft two evils have chosen the
east" Prior. Richard is himself again"
Colley Cbber. Classic Ground" Addi
son. :" A good haier." johnson. "My |.
name is Noryal." John Home, 1906 I
'Ash me no questions and III tell you no
fbs," Goldsmith. "Not much The worse
'or wear" (uot none the worse) C3wper
What will Mrs. Grundy scy ?" Thomas
Morton. "No peut up Utica contracts ,
1ur power" Jonathan SewelI. " Hath /
given hostages 10 fortune" Bacon. " His
Gods image cut in ebony" Thomas ,
Fuller. Wise and mastery inacdsi'v." /
Macintosh, in 1871. though generally at {
ribu,ed TO John Randolph FIRST in !
; ar. frst in peace, and first in the hearts
# his fello"-cl'izsns," not country mem :
Resolutions presented to the House oi a
& presentaliVes, December, l7G9 pre- 4
.areI by General Henry Lee. millions /
or defense, but rot one cent for uihu.5." " /
yhEr,es c. PincEGeY. 1.-The almighty 4
ollar." Washington Irving. " As good q
s play" King Charles, when in P+rlia- i
nent at ending the discussion Of Lord I
toss's divorce bill. "Stling bargain"
, in loves Labor Lost. Fast and I
oose." Ibid. "PumpiHg a mGn," O:wsy's S
'euice Preserved. Go Snacks," Popc's c
Prologue to Satires. In the wrong j
OK" Fox's Martyrs. "To iam." in the ;
ense OF "to beat" King aud no King" d
" Beaumont aud Fletcher. The back :
eyed newspaper quotation, IemDord
autdRtur, a0S ct Matamer III Ills, is c
Ypt found iU any classic or Lain author :
The nearest approach to it was. OaH;C 7
autGntur, de-, and this is iound in Bar, t
onius, German writer OF the middle 4
ges. Smelling of the lamp" is to be
round in Plutnrch, and is there sttri'5-
ed to Py,bia'. "a little bid 'a'. uie," ?
ONES from Ecclesiastes x 20-"For a /
'ird of the air shall carry the voice, and c
hat which hath wings shall tell the mat t
en-" "a
He tha' fights and 4way,
May live 10 a. sht another day"
these lines, generally attributed to HUI
ibrss. are really much older. They are
o be found in book pIblished in 1856. II
The same idea is, however, expressed ia a !
onple, published in 542, while one ci the
ew fragments of Meuander, the Greek +,
ritter, that have been preserved. emSo-
lies the same idea in a single line. The
ouplei in Hudibras is:
For ii zoe that fy may fight again,
Which he never do that's slain