Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-02-12
Sayings,and Who First Said Them

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Many OF our common sayings, so
trlte and pithy, are used without the
least idea from whose month or pen
they first originated. Probably the
works OF Shakespeare furnish uswith
moro of these familiar maxi.ns than
any other writer, for to him we
owe: 'A!l is not gold that glitters,
Make virtue of necessity Screw
your courage TO the sticking-place'
(not point, They laugh that win
This is the short and long OF it,
Comparisons are odious,' sAs mer-
ry as the day is long, "A Daniel
come to Judgment 'Frailty, thy
name is wotnaD,' and host OF
others.
Washington Irving gives us The
Almighty Dollar Thomas Mort
on qneried long ago what will
Mrs. Grandy say!' while Goldsmith
answers, ask me no questions and
III tell You no fbs.' Charles G.
Fluckney gives Millions tor de
tense, but not one cent tor tribntc.
FIRST in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts of his fellow clti-
zens' (not countrymen), appeared
in the resolutions presented to the
House of Representative in De
cernber, 1890, prepared by Gen.
Henry Lee.
From the same we Gull, make
assurance doubly snre,' christmas
comes but once a year, Count your
chickens ere they are hatched,' and
Look before you leap
Thomas Tasser, "a writer of the
sixteenth century, givcs us, Its an
Ill wind turns no good Better
late than never Look ere thou
leap, and The stoi:c that is rolling
can gather no moss 'All cry ard
no wool is found in Buffers 'Hu-
dibras.'
Dryden says: sNone but the
brave deserve the fair;' sMon are
but children Of larger growth;'
and 'Throngh thick or thin No
pent-up Utica contracts our rower,'
declared Jonathan Scwcll.
Dean Swift thought that 'Bread
is the staff of life , Campbell
that Coming events cast ther
shadows befere,' and ''Tis distance
lends enchantment to the view
"A thing of beanty is Joy forever
is from Keats. Franklin said, God
helps them who help themselves
and Lawrence Sterne comforts us
with the thought, God tempcrs the
wind to the shorn lamb
when Greeks join Greeks then
was the ting of war; is from
Nathaniel Lee, 1892.
'Of two evils l have chosen the
least, and The end must Justify
the means,' are from Matthew
Price. We are indebted to Colley
Clbber for the agreeable intelligence
that Richard is himself again.
johnson tells us OF "a good hater,'
and Macintosh in 1901, the phrase
often attributed to John Randolph.
Wise and mastery inactivity
'Variety's the very spice of life,
and Not much the worse for wear
Cowper. Man proposes, but God
disroses,' Thomas a kempis.
Christopher Marlowe gave forth
the invitation SO often repeated by
his brothers in a less public way,
Love me little, love me long,
Edward Coke was of the opinion
that "a mans honse is his castle
To Milton we owe The paradise of
FOOLS "A wilderness Of Sweets and
'Moping melancholy and moon
struck Madness
From Bacon comes knowledge
is power, and Thomas Southerne
reminds. us that sPity's akin to love
Edward Yonng tells us Death
loves shining mark "A fool a.
forty is fool indeed but alas, for
his knowledge of human nature
when he tells MS 'Man wants bnt
little, nor that little long,
Even some of the Slang phrases
Of the day have a legitimate origin
Putting your foot in it, is certainly
not a very elegant mode of expires
sion, but, according to the sAsiatic
Researches it is quite fine point
Of law when the title to land is
disputed in Hindostan, two holes
are dug in the ground and used to
incase n limb of each lawyer e.,
and the one who tired first lost bis
clients case. Fancy, if You can,
some of our famous climbs of the
law, PLEADING IN such Il manner