The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-19
NUMBER 7
FA1IILIAR Quotations.


tions which are as I" familiar in our
mouths as household words" whose
origin is either unknown or miseon-
ceived, and without eDcroaching upon
tn sphere of the works devoted to this
purpose, we may mention q few OF
them
"There is death in the pot, is from
the Bible, , Kings, iv. 10. - Lovel )
and pleasant IN their lives, and IN death
they were not divided" is spoken OF
SauI and Jonathan, Ssmuel2, j. 23.
"A man after his own heart" l Samuel,
xiii, Il THE apple of his eye, Deut.
xix, u. "a still small voice, Kings,
xix, u. '' Escaped. with the skin of my
teeth, Job, xix, 90. That mine ad-
verssry had written a book" Job, xxi,
80. Spreading himself like a green
bay tree, Psalms, xxxvii, 50. g Hang
ing our harp upon the willows,
Psalms cxxxvii, 2. Riches certainly
make (not take, as is often quoted
themselves wings" Proverbs, xxiii, s.
Heap Goals of fire upon his head, %
ibid XIV, g. " No new thing under
the SUM-" Ecclesiustes i, 3. OF max
ing many books there is no end, !" ibid
XII, 42. Z" Peace, peace, when there Is
no peace" (made famous by Patrick
Henry Jeremiah viii, IL. MY name
is Legion, Mark V, 6. "To kick against
the pricks," Acts TX, 8.
Z" Make q virtue of necessity, Shaks-
peareis Two Gentlemen of Verona.
'' Ali that glistens is not gold, usually
| quoted All is not gold that glistens, I"
| Merchant of Venice. "Serew your
courage TO the sticking place" (nos
/ point Macbeth. Make assurance
| doubiy sure" ibid. Hang our ban
ners on the outward (not outer walls, 4"
| ib. Keep the word of promise to our
/ mot the) ear, outbreak it to our hope,
ibid. eft is an III wind turns none to
/ good, I" usually quoted, ITS an i'll wind
that blows no one any good, Thomas
Tassar, 1918. I" Christmas comes but
once year" ibid. Look ere thou
leap" ib., and Look before You ere
you leap, 4" Hudibras, commonly quoted,
Look before you leap" Out of
mind as soon as out of sight, usually
quoted, "Oat Of sight out of mind, F"
Lord Brooke. What though the field
be lost, all is not lost, Milton Awake,
arise, or be forever fallen, ibid. Ne
cessity, the tyrant's plea, ibid. That
old man, eloquent, ibid. " Peace hath
her victories, " ibid. "Thougb this may
be play to You, tbs death to us, Roger
L'E1trange, 1704. "All cry and no
wool, !" (not little WOOL, Hndibras.
Count their chickens ere mot hefore)
they're Matched, ibid. Through thick
and thin, Dryden.
When Greeks joined Greeks then
was the tug of war, usually quoted,
when Greek meets Greek, then comes
the tug of war Nathaniel Lee, 1892.
"Of the two evils, have chosen the
least" Prior. Richard is himself
again" Colley Cibber " Classical
ground" :" Addison. cas- clear as whis-
tle," Byron, 1853. "a good hater,"
Johnsoniana. "A fellow feeling makes
one mot us) wondrous kind" My
name is Norval," John Home, 1908.
Ask no questions and I'll tell You DO
fbs," Goldsmith. Not much the
worse for wear" mot none the worse)
Cowper What viii Mrs. Grundy
say ?" Thomas Morton. "No pent up
Utica contracts our powers" Jonathan
Seweil. Hath given hostages TO for
tune, Bacon. " His Gods image cut
in ebony" Thomas Fuller. Wise and
mssterly inactivity" Macintosh in
1871, though generally attributed TO
Randolph. First IN war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts OF his fellow oiti-
zens," (not eountrymen), resolutions
presented 20 the house of representa-
tives, December, 1879, prepared by Gen.
Henry Lee. " Millions for defence,
but not one cent for tribute" Charles
@. Pickney. "The Almighty dollar,
Washington Irving.
"A AS good as play" King Charles,
when in parliament attending the dis
eussion of Lord Ross's divorce hill.
a. Selling a bargain, is in Loves Labor
Lost " Fast and loose" ibid. Pamp-
ing a man." Otteway's Venice Preserved.
" Go snacks," Pope's Prologue 70 Sa-
tires. '' In the wrong box, Fox's Mar
tyrs. "To lamn in the sense OF the
heal" King and no King, by Beaumont
and Fletcher. The Hackney newspaper
Latin quotation, "Tempora mutantur,
nos ct mutamur IN ills. " Is not found in
any classic or Latin author. The near
est approach to it was !" Omnia muta-
tur," &c, and this is found in Bourbc-
MUS, German writer Of the middle
ages. Smelling of the lamp, is to be
found in Plutarch, and is there attTibu-
ted to Pythias. ga little bird told nae,
comes from Ecclesiastes, K, 20. g For
a bird of the air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the
matter"
che that fights and runs away
May live 70 fight another day
These lines, usually ascribed TO HUI
dibras, are really much older, They
are to be found in book published in
1856. The same idea is. however, ex-
pressed in a couplet publiEhed IN 1912, 1
while one of the few fragments of Me
ander, the Greek writer, that have been
preserved, enbodies the same idea in
a single line. The couplet in Hudibres
is:
s'For those tina. fly may fght again,
Which he can never do that's slain
"Hell is paved with good intentions"
thouesi found In johnson and Herbert,
was obviously in their day proverbial
expression. Waiter Scott ascribes il TO
50 some stern old divine"
"That's a good time coming" is an
expression used by Sir Walter Scott in
Rob Roy, and has, doubtless, for long
time been familiar saying in Scotland.
h'riT1atit eOeLO flftDleTl. sceI1lTtfDlQue
tyr0Hnfs, was a line upon Franklin
written by TurgOl, the minister Of Louis
XVI. It is, however, merely a modf-
fication Of line by Cardinal PolignRe,
ErtDuitq8e .ToUi fiflBlen, pheboqlle
sagiJas, which in turn was taken from
a line Of Marcus Maniiias, who says Of
Epieurus, EripWitqGe .LoUt fliiBlen ri
rcsqui IondTlI.
por PopuI, VoD Del. The origin
Of this familiar pirnFe is not knoWn,
Utka II - A4AlHEA - ~ NtANaHA+
Liam Of halmsbury, who lived in the
early part Of the twelfth century.
Ultima rata re0sini. This motto
was engraved on the French cannon by
order OF Louis XIV.
Whistling girls and growing hens
Assays come 10 some bad end
In one OF the curious Chinese books
recently translated and published in
l'aris, this proyerb occurs in substaa-
TALLY the same words. IL is also an in
iuuetion Of fhs Chinese priesthood, and
a earefgliy-obssryed household custom,
70 kill Immediately every hen that
crows, as q preventive against the mis-
foftune which the Circumstances is sup
posed 70 indicate.
WELITgoToS was once asked by. 3 la
dy Of rank, after dinner, 70 give her
an account Of the battle % WateFioo-
q request very Ike that made By q
French countess Who seized philoao-
pheF az the supper-table, and ex-