The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-09-04
WHERE FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
COME FROM.

WHERE FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
COME FROM.
"ihere is death in the pot" is from the Bible,
:: hIngs, ~, 40. sLovcly and pleasant in their
lives and IN their death they are not divided"
IS spoken Of Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel, i, 23
"a man after his eye" Deut. xix, 81. GA still
the skin of my teeth" Job xix, 90. "That
mine adversary had written book, Job xxi, 35.
spreading bimself like green bay tree"
Psalm xxxvi, 35. "Hauged our harps upon the
willow" Psalm cxxvii, 2. "Riehes certainly
make (not take, as it is often quote1) themselves
wings" Proverbs xiii, S. "Heap Goals of fire
upon his head, Ibid, XIV, %. "No new thing
under the sun" Ecclesiastes i, 3. "Of making
mary books there is no end" Ibid, kill
"Peace, peace, when there is no peace" (made
famous by Patrick Henry,) Jeremiah viii, IL
"My name is Legion" Mark v, g. "To kick
against the pricks," Acts tx, 2. "Make virtue
of necessity" Shakespeare's Two gentlemen of
Verona. Call is not gold that glitters,' Mer-
chant of Venice. "Screw your courage to the
sticking place" (not point, Macbeth SNAKE
assurance double sure, Ibid. "Hang out your
banners upon the outward walls," Ibid. sKeep
the word of promise to our (not Me) ear, but
break it to our hope" Ibid. "Its an ill wind
turns no good" usually quoted, "It's an i'll wind
blows one any good" Thomas Tasser-
"Christmas comes but once year," bid
"Look before you leap" Ibid, and "Look be-
fore you ere you leap" Hudibras, commonly
quoted, "Look before you leap" "Out of mind
of sight, out of nina" Lord Brooke.
"What, though the field be lost, all is not
lost" Milton awake, arise, OF be forever
fallen," ibid. Necessity, the tyrant's plea"
Ibid. "Peace hath her victories, Ibid. "Though
this may be play to you, it's death to u.s." Roger
PEstrange, 1904. ''All cry and no wool" (not
little arooi,) Hudbras. "Count their chickens
ere (not beforeI they are batched," Ibid
Through thick aud thiu," Dryden. "When
Greeks join Greeks, then was the tug war;"
usually quoted, "When Greek meets Greek then
comes the tug of war;" Nathaniel Lee, 1902
"Of two evils, have chosen the least" Prior
"Richard is himself again." Colley Cibber-
"Classic ground" Addison. ga good hater,"
Johnson. "My name is Norval," John Hume,
1908 "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you
no fbs," Goldsmith. "Not much the worse for
wear," (not none the acorse,) Cowper "Wbat
will Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas Morton. "No
pentup Utica contracts our power" Jonathan
Sewell
'sHath given hostage to fortune," Bacon
"His (God's) image cut in ebony" Thomas Full
ler ''Wise and masterly inactivity" Mackn-
tosh, in 1871, though generally attributed to
John Randolph. "First in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts of his fellow citizens"
(not countrymen,) resolutions presented to the
pared by Gen. Henry Lee. "Milliops for de-
fense, but not one cent for tribute" Charles G.
Pinckney. ''The almighty dollar Washington
Irving. Gas good as play" King Charles,
when in Parliament attending the discussion of
Lord Ross's Divorce bill. "Selliug bargain"
is in Loves Labor Lost. 'East and loose" "Go
snacks," Pope's prologue to Satires. ''In the
wrong box" Fox's Martyrs. ''To lam," in the
sense of to beat, "King and no King" by Beau
mont and Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper
Latin quotation, "Tempora mutanter NOS ct
nautanaur an iUis," is not found iu any classic
or Latin author. The nearest approach to it
was "Omnfa nautantur," etc, and this is found
in Barbonius, German writer of the middle
ages. "Smellng Of the lamp" is to be found in
Plutarch, and is there attributed to Pythias.-
GA little bird told me-" comes from Ecclcsias-
ties K, 20: "For bird of the air shall carry the
voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the
matter" ....
"He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day"
These lines, generally attributed to iudiDras,
are really much older They may be found in
a book published in 1856. The same idea is,
however, expressed in couplet published in
1912, while one of the few fragments of Menan-
der, the Greek writer, that have been preserved
embodies the same idea in single line. The
couplet of Hudibras is: .,.s
"For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain" ~
"Hell is paved with good Intentions" though
found in johnson and Herbert, was obviously
in that day a proverbial expression. Walter
Scott ascribes it to some "stern old divine"
sTbere is good time coming" is an express
sion used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and
has doubtless for a long time been familiar
saying in Scotland.
eAcT WELL Your PARr"-There is no
discredit, but honor, in every right walk of in
dustry, whether it be in tilling the ground,
making tools, weaving fabrics, Or selling the
products behind counter A youth may ham
die a yardstick, or measure piece Of ribbon,
and there will be no discredit in doing SO, un-
less be allows his mind to have no higher range
than the stick and ribbon-to be as short as the
one and as narrow as the other. "Let notthose
blush who haze" said Fuller, "but those who
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