Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-18
Where Familiar Quotations come
From.

There is death in the pot is from the
Bible, 2 Kings iv. 40. Lovely and pleasant
in their lives and IN death they are not di7id-
ed,' is spoken of Saul and Jonathan, Sam
uel i. %. 81 man after his own heart,' |
Samuel xiii. r. q The apple of bis eye
Deut. xix. 81 A still, small voice." /
Kings xix. II. s. Escaped with the skin of
my teeth" Job xix. 20. "That mine adver-
sarv had written a book Job xxi. 35-
Psalm xxxxii. IS. g Hanged our harps upon
the willow" Psalm cxxxvii 2 "Riches Ger
tainly make (not take, it is often quoted)
| themselves wings" Proverbs XIII. 5. :" Heap
Goals OF fire upon his head Ibid XIV. %.
" No new thing under the SUM- Ecclesiastes
/. g. 'Of making many books there Is
end" Ibid. xii. II Peace, peace, wheu
there is no peace" (made famous by Patrick
Henry, jeremiah viii. IL. my name is Lo-
gion," Mark V. 9. "To kick against the
pricks," Acts ix s. MAKE virtue of ne
cessity," Shakspeare's Two Gentlemen OF We
roma. g All is not gold that glitters,' Mer-
chant of Venice "Screw your courage to the
sticking place" (not Point0 Macbeth. Maxi
assurance doubly sure" Ibid. Hang out
yonr banners upon the outward walls" Ibid.
80 Keep The word at promise to our (not the)
ear. but break 1t TO our hope Ibid. d" Is
an I'll wind turns good" usually quoted
. It, an i'll wind blows one any COED.
Thomas Tasser, 1850. Christmas comes but
once year," Ibid. " Look before you leap
and l. Look bsfore you ere you leap" Hndi
bras commonly quoted 81 Look before you
leap" "Out Of mind as soon as out of light"
usually quoted ''Out of sight. out of mind, >
Lord Brooke. "Whst though the field b.
lost, all is not lost, Milton. Awake, arise,
or be forever fallen" Ibid. - Necessity the
{ rants plea," Ibid. " rhe old man eloquent"
bid Peace hath her Victories Ibid.
+" Though this NAV be play to you, tbs death
to US" Roger Estrange, I704. " All cry
and no WOOL" (not little ,oooi.l Hudibras.
. Count their chickens (not before) they
hatched,' Ibid. " Through thick and thin.
Dryden. . When Greeks JOIN Greeks, then
was the tug of war, usually quoted, 1" " hen
Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug Of
war" Nathaniel Lee, 1862. "Of two eylis
| have chosen the least Prior. " "Richard
4s himself again Colley Cibber. 8 Classic
ground" Addison. a good hater," John
soa.-" My name is Norval," John Hum,
Io0o. . ASK me 10 questions and I'll t.ii
you no ibis Goldsmith. Not much t-c
worse for wesr," (not none the tsorss,) Cow
per- w hat will Mrs. Grundy say Thom>s
Morton. No pent up Utica contracts out
power Jonathan Sewell.
= Hath given hostage to fortune BacO,.
:" dis Goods image cut in ebony" Thomas
Fuller" " ise and mastery inactivity,
daeklntosh, in 1871, though generally al
trlbuted TO John Randolph. - First in wei,
first peace, and first In the hearts of his
iellow-citizens," (cot countryDsea,) resolutions
presented to the House of Representatives.
December, 1890, prepared by General Hen,
Lse. Millions for defense but DOT one cent
for tribute" Charles c. Pinekney. :. The
Almighty dollar" Washing ton Irving. AS
yoo ria X hal IN D.
lament attending the discussion of Lord Ross'
divorce bill. = Selling bargain Is IN
Loves Labor Lost. - Fast and loose" Ibi!
= Pumping man." Otway's Venice Pre-
served. = Go snacke,' Pope's Prologue to
Saures. = Ia the wrong box Fox's Mar
tyrs. 10 lam,' IN the sense of to beat
- King aud no King" by Beaumont and
fle cher The hackneyed newspaper Latin
quotation, 8 TemPora mutanter nos ct mu-
tamur IL His, Is Not found ID any classic or
Latte author. The nearest approach to 1t
" OmnIa mutantur,' &c and this is found in
BaTbonius, German writer of the middle
ages.
= Smelling of the lamp" is 10 be found in
Plutarch, and Is there attributed to PythIss.
=. little bird told me- comes from Ecclesias-
ties y. 20. -"F0G o bird OF the air shall carry
the voice, and that which hath wings shall
tell the matter"
He that fights and away,
May live 10 light other day
These lines, generally attributed to Hudi-
bras, are really much older. They are TO be
found in a book published in 1856. The same
idea Is, however, expressed IN d couplet pub
Lshed in 1912, while one of the few fragments
OF Mensnder, the Greek writer, that have been
preserved, embodies he same idea in single
line. The couplet in Hudibras Is
For those that fly may fight again,
Which ne do thAt's slain.''
Hell is paved with good Intentions"
though found In johnson and Herbert. was
obviously in that day proverbial expression.
" alter Scott ascribes il 10 some - stern oil
divine"
$ There's good time coming is an ex-
preston used by Sir Walter Scott IN Rob Roy,
aud has doubtless for long lime been fam
IlIaC saying in Scotland.