The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS..

There are many phrases and quota
tlons which are as " familiar in our
mouths as household words" whose
| origin is either unknown or miscon-
ceiVed, and without encroaching upon
| th sphere of the works devoted to this
purpose, we may mention few of
them:
There is death in the pot" is from
he Bible, 2 Kings, iv, 10. Lovely
and pleasant in their lives, and in death
they were not divided" is spoken of
Saul and Jonathan, Samuel2, i, %.
"A man after his own heart" Samuel,
xiii, IA. 1.-The apple of his eye," Deut.
XIX, II. ga still small voice." Kings,
xix, II. Escaped with the skin of my
teeth" Job, xix, 20. "That mine ad-
versary had written a book" Job, xxi,
30. "Spre ding himself like a green
bay tree, " Psalms, xxxvii, 80. Hang
ing our harp upon the willows"
Psalms cxxxvii, 2. 'tRiches certainly
make mot take, as is often quoted)
themselves wings" Proverbs, xxiii, 5.
Heap Goals OF fire upon his head" !"
ibid XIV, %. "No new thing under
the sum-" Ecclesiastes i, 8. "Of max
ing many books there is 10 end, ibid
XII, AZ. g Peace, peace, when there is
no peace" (made famous by Patrick
Henry,) Jeremiah viii, II. ''My name
is Legion" Mark V, 6. "To kick against
the pricks, Acts tx, 5.
Make a virtue of necessity" Shaks-
peare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
"AlI that glistens is not gold," usually
quoted "All is not gold that glistens,"
Merchant of Venice. "Screw your
courage to the sticking place." (not
point Macbeth. "Make assurance
doubly sure" ibid. "Hang our ban
ners on the outward mot outer walls"
ib. keep the word of promise to our
mot the) ear, outbreak it to our hope"
ibid at is an i'll wind turns none to
good" usually quoted, "It's an i'll wind
that blows no one any good, Thomas
Tassar, 1913. christmas comes but
once year" ibid. "Look ere thou
leap" ib., and "Look before you ere
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 lost, Milton. "Awake,
arise, or be forever fallen" ibid. "Ne- |
cessity, the tyrsnt's plea, ibid. "That
old man, eloquent, ibid "Peace hath
her victories" ibid. "Though this may
be play to you, It's death to u.s." Roger
L'Etrange, 1704 "All cry and no
WOOL" mot little wool, Hudibras.
Count their chickens ere mot befOre)
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.
d" OF the two evils, have chosen the
least" Prior. Orchard is himself
again." Colley CIbber. "Classical
ground" Addison. GAS clear as a whis-
tle," Byron, 1853. GA good hater,"
"A fellow feeling makes
one (uot u.s. wondrOus kind" My
name is Norval," John Home, 1908.
60 Ask no questions and I'll tell you no
fbs," Goldsmith. "Not much the
worse for wear" mot none the worse)
Cowper. "What will Mrs. Grundy
say ?" Thomas Morton. "No -pent up
Utica contracts our powers" Jonathan
SeweIl. "Hath given hostages to for
in ebony" Thomas Fuller. "Wise and
inactivity" Macintosh in
1871, though generally attributed to
hanuOlpu. HusG IL war, uIsI III peace,
and first in the hearts of his fellow citi-
zens," (not cOuntrymen), resolutions
presented to the house of representa-
tives, December, 1879, prepared by Gen.
Henry Lee. millions for defence,
but not ore cent for tribute" Charles
Q. Pickney. 1.-The Almighty dollar"
Washington Irving.
GAS good as play" King Charles,
when in parliament attending the dis
,ussion of Lord Ross's divorce bill.
i' Selling bargain, " is in Loves Labor
Lost. Fast and loose" ibid. "Pump-
ng man" Otteway' Venice Preserved.
g Go snacks," Pope's Prologue to Sa- ;
Tres. "In the wrong box, Fox's Mar
yrs. ''To lamn in the sense of the {
leaI," King and no King, by Beaumont
md Fletcher The Hackney newspaper (