River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-29
Savings, and Who First Said Them.

Many of the common sayings, SO
trite and pithy,are used without the least
idea from whose mouth or pen they first
originated. Probably the works of
Shakespeare furnish us with more of
these familiar maxims than any other
writer, for to him we owe: "All Is not
gold that glitters," "Make a virtue of
necessity" Screw your courage to
sticking place" mot point, "They
laugh that win, This is the short and
long of it, "Comparlsons are odious,"
GAS merry as the day is long" "a
Daniel come to judgment" "Frailty,
thy name is Woman" and hosts Of
others.
Washington irving gives us "Thc
almighty dollar" Thomas Norton
queried long ago "what will Mrs.
Grundy say ?" while Goldsmith answers,
ASK me no questions and III tell you
no fibs," Charles G. Pinckney, "Mil-
lions for defense, but not one cent for
tribute" First in war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts Of his fellow
citizens mot countrymen), appeared
in the resolutions presented TO the house
of representatives in December, 1890,
prepared Dy 0tneIdl I1GDIy LSts
From the same we Gull, snake assur
ance doubly sure" Christmas comes
but once year." "Count their chickens
ere they are hatched," and "Look be-
fore you leap"
Thomas Tasser, writer of the six
teenth century, gives us, "IPs an i'll
wind turns no good" Better late than
never" Look ere thou leap" and
"rhe stone that is rolling can gather
no moss" "All cry and no WOOL" is
found in Buffers "Hudlbras."
DRYDEN says: "None but the brave
deserve the fair" "Men are but chill
dren of larger growth" Through
thick and thin"
mo pent,up Utica contracts our
power" declared Jonathan Sewell.
when Greeks join Greeks then was
the tug of war;" Nathaniel Lee, 1892.
"Of two evils Ihave chosen the least"
and "The end must justify the means"
are from Matthew Pryor. We are in
debted to Colley Cibber for the agree
able intelligence that Richard is him
! self again." johnson tells US of "a good
hater,' and Macintosh in 1871, the
phrase often attributed to John Ran
dolph, "Wise and mastery inactivity"
"Variety's the spice of life" and
'Not much the worse for wear" Cow
per. MAN proposes, but God dis
poses," Thomas A. Kempis.
Christopher Marlowe gave forth the
invitation so often repeated by his
brothers in less public way. Love
me little, love me long" Edward
Cooke was of the opinion that "a mans
| house is his castle" To Milton we owe
nthe paradise of FOOLS" "a wilderness
of sweets" and "Moping melancholy
and moonstruck madness"
Edward Young tells us death loves
shining mark" "a fool at 40 is fool
indeed" but, alas, for his knowledge of
human nature, when he tells us "Man
wants but little, nor that little long"
From Baron comes knowledge Is
power" and Thomas Southerne reminds
us that PHYS akin to love-" Dean
Swift thought that BREAD is the staff
of life." Campbell found that Coming
events cast their shadows before" and
| "sTis distance lends enchantment to the
view." "a thing of beauty is a JOY
forever" is from Keats. Franklin said,
God helps them who help themselves,
and Lawrence Sterne comforts us with
the thought, eGod tempers the wind to
4 the shorn lamb"
| Even some of the ''slang" phrases Of
the day have legitimate origin. "Put-
ting your foot in it, is certainly not a
| very elegant mode of expression, but
according to the "Asiatic Researches
It is quite fine point of law; when the
| title to law il disputed In Hindostan,
two holes are dug in the ground and
used to incase a limb of each lawyer III
and the one who tired first losl his eli
ent's case. Fancy, if you can, some Of
our famous climbs Of the law" pleading