The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-07
Where Familiar Quotations Come From

'Tbere is death in the pot" Is from the Bible,
Kings, iy, 40. Lovely and pleasant in their
lives, aud in thelr death they ate not divided
Is spoken of saul and Jonathan, Samuel, i, %.
"a man after his eye" Deuteronomy XIX, Il.
"a still, small voice" l Kings, xix, II. "ES-
capped with the SKIN of my teeth,' Job xix, 20.
That nine adversary had written book," Job
xxi, 35. spreading himself like green bay
tree Psalm XXXvi 80. "HInged our harDs
upon the wlllow,' Psalm CXXyIi, 2. "kiches
Ger alnly make mot take, as 1t is often quoted)
themselves WINGS" Proverbs XXlii 5. Heap
Goals OF hre upon his head,n ibid, XIV, %. "No
new thing under the sum- ECClesiaStes i, 9. "Ot
making many books there Is no end" ibid,
XII, u.
peace peace, when there is no peace" (made
famous by Patrick Henry, jeremiah viii, IL.
'My name is LEGION Mark V, 8. 'To kick
against the prlcks,' Acts TX, 2. Make virtue
OF necessity, Shakespeare's 1too Gentenoen Of
Verona. "Al is not gold that glltters," Mer-
chant Of FenaCe. 'Screw your couIage to the
sticking place" (not pOia0, MdcJeh. Make as
surance double sure" Ibid. "Hang out your
banners upon the outward walls" lOld. keep
the word OF promise to our (uot he) ear, but
break IT to our hope" Ibid. ats an i'll wind
turns no Good" usually quoted, "Its an i'll
WIND blows no one auy good" Thomas Tasser.
"Christmas comes but once year" Ibid. Look
before you eIe 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
ialen," IBID Necessity, the tlranps plea"
Ibid. Peace hath her victories" Ibid. Though
this NAV be play 10 YOU, tits death to US"
Roger IEstrange, l7O4. All cry and no WOOL"
ems eIe mot 6efore) they are hatchedn Ibid.
Through thick and thin" Dryden. when
Greeks join GIeeEs, then comes the tug of war, y
usually quoted, when Greek meets Greek then
comes the tug OF war; Nathaniel Lee 1902.
"Of two evils have chosen the least" Prlcr.
"Rlcbard IS himself again" Coiiey Cibber.
"Classic ground" Addison. "a good hater," "
Johnson. my name is Norval." John Hume,
1908. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you
no fbs," Goldsmith. mot much the worse Tor
wear" mot none the lCCTSe), Cowper. "What
will Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas Morton. mo
pentup Utica contracts our power" jonathan
Sewell.
Hath given hostage to fortune" Bacon. His
(God'S) image cut III ebol "" Thomas Fuller.
"Wise and mastery inactivity" Macintosh, in
1871, though generally attributed to John Ran
doph. First in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts oil his telow.Ciuzens mot COu7p1ymeT),
resolutions presented to the House OF Repre-.
sentatives, December, 1890, prepared by General
HcnIy Lee. ''Nllious Tor defense, but not one
cent Tor tribute" Charles G. Plnckney. 'Tne
| almighty dollar" Washington Irving. LAS good
| as a play King Charles, when ln Parliament
| attending the discussion OF Lord Ross Divorce
| bill. selling bargain" is in LoUe's Labor
| prologue to "Satlres." ''In the wrong box
| Fox's Martyrs" ITO lam," in the sense of to
beat, KING ana NO KING, by Beaumont and
| Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper Latin
| quotation, "IempOrd aautGTter nos et nllhlm11
| in MiS"Is not found in any classic or Latin
author. The nearest approach TO it was "OmRiO
| nlutGntlT,n ETC., and this is found in Barbonius
| German writer OF the Middle Ages. "Smeling
| oil the lamp" is to be found in Plutarch, and il
| there attributed 10 Pythias. "A little bird tolC
me-" comes rom Ecclesiastes Y, 2O:-"For q
| bird of the air shah carry the voice, and tha
| which hath wings shalt tell the matter"
"he that fights and runs away
May live 10 fight another day."
| These lines, generally attributed to Hudibras
| are really much older They may be found il
| a book published in 1866. The same IDEA is
| however, expressed in a couplet published il
| 1912, hle one OF the few fragments OF Menan
der, the Greek writer, that have been preserved
embodies the same IDEA in single line. Th
couplet of Hudibras is
'For those that fly may fight again,
| Which lie can never do thaps slam"
"Hell is paved with good Intentions though
| found in Johnson ana Herbert was obviously il
that day proyerbial expression. Walter scot
aScrbes it 10 some ern old divine"
'"Ihere is good tine COMING, y is an expires
sion used by Sir Walter Scott IN Rob Roy ant
has doubtless for a long time been a familia
saying in Scotland.
| 1T Is stated in a Calais letter that demand