Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-11-16
Origin of Some Popular Sayings.

Origin Of Some Popular Sayings.
Almost every one has on hand store of
trite opposite sentences, using them daily,
but having no knowledge Of their author
ship; and as men are apt to be curious con-
corning the habits and laws thatathey were
or are governed by, tracing their origin
back into the dimnesss Of long slumbering
centuries, so they are often possessed with
a desire to know who first framed these
words into the sentences SO familiar to
them AS they have not all the time to
devote to such labor, the following have
been strung together Ivy one whose nature
leads HIM to ramble among books for his
SOULS best amusement.
It was Thomas Kempis, who in the fiji
tenth century, gave us ''Man proposes,
but God disposes'' and the equally we'll
known saying, "Of two evils the less is to
be chosen,'' the original Of "Of two evils
choose the least Thomas Tusser,
a writer of the sixteenth century, gave
"Better late than never" and the key for
four common phrases in "For Christmas
comes but once year." Its an i'll wind
that turns none to good,' ''The stone that
is rolling can gather no MOSS" "Look ere
thou leap, see ere thou 60" 1t was Francis
Rabelais, a French wit of the same cen
fury, who said that by 'Robbing Peter he
paid Paul" and told that when
1.-THE devil was sick, the devil monk would be;
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.''
1t was also in the sixteenth century that
Sir Edward Coke, a celebrated English
lawyer said, 'For a mans house is his
CASTLE" and Lord Brooke sung, Sand out
of mind as soon out Of sight" 1t was
Christopher Marlowe. the forerunner of
Shakespeare, and father Of the grand Eng
lish drama, who sang to the ladies, Glove
me little, love me long" and told Of Gin
finite riches in little ROOM"
we owe to the prolific genius OF Shak-
speare, 'sThis is the short and long Of it, )"
-'The worlds mine OYSTER" ''Comparisons
are odorous," 'As merry as the day is long,"
"a Daniel come to judgment,'' SIT is a
wise father that knows his own child"
''And thereby hangs a tale,'' ''He needs
must go wh enthe devil drives, s"Why this
is very midsummer madness, y "The small
est worm will turn when trodden on"
"Smooth runs the water where the brook
is Deep" $50 wise 50 young they say do
meier live long," ''The weakest go to the
WALL" "We have seen better days. "This
was the most unkindest cut of all, !" "Stand
not upon the order of your going" ga
deed without name," "Frailty, thy name
is woman" 81 am man more sinned
against than sinning," s'They laugh that
win,' and thousand more as good,
though not as well known.
Francis Bacon, the 'wisest, greatest,
meanest of mankind" said acknowledge
is power" and Beaumont and Fletcher
pronounced that "What's one mans
poison. signor, is another's meat or drink. :"
Milton tells of a ''Moping melancholy and
moonstruck Madness" and also of GA
wilderness of sweets,'' GAIL hell broke
loose" and "The paradise Of fools.''
Samuel Butler, author of "Hudibras,"
dubbed a religious creed thus: "'Twas
Presbyterian true blue" Dryden says,
None but the brave deserve the fair"
and ''sweet is pleasure after PAIN He
also warns thus: Obi fs the fury of
patient man." Cali delays are dangerous
in war;" and thinks that 'sMen are but
children of larger growth" The Earl
of Roscommon has it that one must
CHOOSE an author as you choose FRIEND"
nd hof Nbo o,11t n o1x
in the wrong" John Bunyan wisely re-
minds us that ''He that is down needs fear
no fall" and Thomas Southerne s'That
PHYS akin to love-" It was crazy Natha-
MEL Lee who averred that "When Greeks
joined Greeks, then was the tug of war;"
Mathew Prior thought "The end must
justify the means"; and Dean Swift said
"Bread is the staff of llfe." George Far
quhar called Necessity the mother of in
vention;'' Edward Young, very sombre
fellow, said 'Death loves a shining mark -
he also thought that 'Man wants but little,
ncr that little long," and that ga fool at
forty is a fool indeed - he also told of
''Tired natures sweet restoler, balmy
Sleep" Pope says, ''To err is human to
forgive divine!'' and hungry as the grave"
1t was John Gay who said "Wh!le there's
life, there's hope" and sang of "Over the
hills and far away - Lawrence Stern
thought that God tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb,'' and Bejamine Fraklin
that "God helps them who helps them
Selves" Cooper said that "Variety's the
spice of life:'' Thomas Campbell that
'''Tis distance lends enchantment to the
views" he also said, 'And coming events
cast their shadow before :" Daniel Webster
told of a ''Sea Of upturned faces" and
Washington Irving thought our idol was
''The mighty dollar" Byron say that war
presents Battles magnifcently stern az
ray;' and Keats that GA thing of beauty
is a JOY forever and last, it was Bishop
Berkely, an English prelate, who in the
seventeenth century said, "Westward the
course Of Empire takes it's way
A CASE OF RECoNCILIATIoN.-In il
lustration of Wade Hampton's recent
speech at Rockford, ILL.,, pleading for peace
and determination between the sections,
we have business-house in this city whose
position and example are most remark
able. The firm is composed Of two mem
bers: one came here from Ohio and the
other Tennessee; one was a Federal SOL
der and the other Confederate-bot
carrying scars from wounds received in
battle during the late war. No two bust
ness partners were ever more friendly and
confidential; indeed, their intercourse is as