The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-01-18

abiding people. We are confident, there
fore, that Governor Scott, in the honorable,
dignifed and just position which he has
taken, will receive the cordial support and
earnest cooperation Of the white citizens OF
the State.
Where Fa miliar Quotations Come From
ssThere is death in the pot, is from the
Bible-2 Kings iv. 40. ''Lovely and pleas
ant in their lives, and in their death they
are not divided" isspoken of Saul and Jona-
thau-2 Samuel /. %. ga man after his
eye"-Deut. xix. 81. "a still small voice.
l Kings xix. l2 Escaped with the skin of
nv teeth"-Job xix 20 sThat mine ad-
versary had written book"-Job xxi. 35.
spreading himself like green bay tree"-
Psalm xxxvi. IS. Hanged our harps upon
the willow"-Psalm cxXvii. 2. 'tRiches GER
tainly make (not take as it is often quoted)
themselves wings"-Proverbs xiii. S. "Heap
Goals of fire upon his head"-Ibid. XIV. o.
'.Nc new thing under the sun"-Ecclesiastes
i9. .'Of making many books there is no
end'-Ibid. xii. IL. "Peace peace, when
there is no peace (made famous by Patrick
Henry)-Jeremiah viii. II. "My name is
Legion"-Mark v. 8. 'ero kick against the
pricks"-Acts iy. 2. MAKE virtue OF
| necessity "-Shakespeare's 1.-TWO Gentlemen
OF Verona" Gall that glilters is not gold"-
Merchant of Venice" Screw up your
courage to the sticking place" (not point
s'Macbeth." "Make assurance doubly sure
Ibid. "Hang out your banners upon the
outward walls"-Ibid. "Keep the word Of
promise to our (not Me) ear, but break it to
our hope"-Ibd. "It's an ill wind turns no
good" USUALLY quoted, '1ts an i'll wind
blows no one any good")- Thomas Tasser.
Christmas comes but once q year'-Ibld.
'Look before you leap"-Ibid; and ''Look
before you ere you leap"-"Hudibras;" COM
monty 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
forever fallen"-Ibid. Necessity, the ty-
rants plea"-Ibid. 'Peace hath her victo-
ries"-Ibid Though this may be play to
you, tits death to us"-Roger PEstrange,
l704. Gail cry, and no wool"-not "little
-"Hudibras" Count their chickens
ere (not betore) they are hatched"-lbid.
Through thick and thin"--Dryden. "When
Greeks join Greeks, then was the tug of
war;" usually quoted, "Wheh Greek meets
Greek, then comes thetug of war"-Natban-
lei Lee, 1892. "Of two evils, have chosen
the least" = Prior. ''Richard is himself
aglin"-Colley Cibber. "Classic Ground
Addison. GA good hater"-Johnson. ''My
name is Norval"- Home, 1903. "Ask me
no questions, and I'll tell you no hbs"-Gold-
smith. '.Not much the worse for lr"-
not "none the worse"-Cowper. ''What
will Mrs. Grundy say?"-Thomas Morton.
sNo pent-up Utica contracts our power
Jonathan Sewell. "Hath given hostage to
fortune"-Bacon. 'His (God's) image cut
in ebony"-Thomas Fuller. sWise and
mastery inactivlty"-Mackntosh, in 1871,
though generally attributed to John Ran
dolph. .First in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts OF his ellow-citizens"-
not "countrymen"- Resolution presented to
the House of Representatives, December,
100, prepared BY General Henry Lee. emil
lions for defence, but not one cent for trib-
ute"-Charles G. Pinckney. ''The almighty
dollar"-Washington Irving. "As good as
a play"-King Charles, when in Parliament
attending the discussion of Lord Ross's Di-
rorce Bill. 'selng bargain" is in ''Love's
Labor Lost" "Fast and Loose" $50
ks,"-Pope's prologue to .7Satires."
''In the wrong box"-"Fox's Martyrs" ''To
lam" (iu the sense OF to beat) "King and no
King" by Beaumont and Fletcher. The
hackneyed newspaper Latin quotation,
"7snspora nsutantur, et nos mutanur IN
Ills" is not found in any classic or Latin
author. The nearest approach to it Was,
"Onanta mutantsr, &c, aad this is found
in Borbonius, German writer OF the middle
ages. Smelling OF the lamp" is to be found
in Plutarch, and is there attributed to
Pythias. ga little bird told ME" comes
from Ecclesiastes X. 20, "For Il bird Of the
air shall carry the voice. and that which
hath wings shall tell the matter"
s'He that fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day."
These lines, generally attributed to "Hu-
dibras," are really much older. They may
be found in book published in 1856. The
same idea is however, expressed in u coup
let published in 1912, while one OF the few
fragments of Menander the Greek writer,
that have been preserved embodies the same
idea in single line. The couplet Of "Hu-
dibraS" is:
'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 u proverbial express
sion. Walter Scott ascribes it to some
| ssstern old divine"