The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-06-11
SAYINGS. AND WHO FIRST SAID
THEM.

Many Of our 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 "a
niliar maxims than any other writer, for 10 him
We owe "All is not gold that glitters," make q
virtue Of necessity" "Screw your courage 20 the
sticking piace"--(not point,) 'They laugh that
win, - .Jhis is the shori and long Of i,,""com.
psns, = :. .es asg !.
thy name Is Woman" and host Of others.
Washington Irving gives us "The Almighty
Dollar"
Thomas Morton qusried long ago: "what will
Mrs. Grundy sayY while Goldsmith answers,
"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fbs.''
Charles G. Pickney gives "Millions for defense.
but not one cent for tribute" "first in war first
In the hearts oi his fellow citizens( not country
men, appeared in the resolutions presented to the
House Of Representatives in December. 1890, pre-
pared by General Henry Lee.
From the same we Gull, "Make assurance doubly
SURE" "Christmas comes but once year" "CJant
their chickens ere they are hatehed.' and Look
before you leap"
Thomas Tasser, q writer Of the Sixteenth Cen.
tury gives Us ats an ill wind turns good"
"Dctter late than never" "Look ere thou leap"
aud THE stone tina, rolling can gather no mos"
"Ail cry AMI wool Is found In Eutlcr's
liudibras."
Dryden says: "Nonc but the brave dc.erve the
fair. Men are but children of larger growth"
and Through thick and thin
"No pcnt.up Utica contracts our power de-
ciarci Jonathan Scwcll.
when Greeks join Greeks then was the tug "f
war."-Nathaniei Lee. written 1892.
''of two evils have chosen the least" and
"Thc end must Justify the means," are from
Matthew Prior.
We are indebted To- Collcy Cibbcr for the agreca.
bic intelligence that "Richard |. himself again
Johnson tells of "a good hatcr, and Maekih-
tosh in 1921, the phrase often attributed {" John
Randolph. "wisc and mastery inactivity"
Variety the very spice Of lifc,' aud "NOt
much the worse for wcar." Cowpcr.
Man proposes, but Goi Dispose" Thomas
A'kcmpis.
Christopher Marlow gave forth the invitation
50 often repeated by his brothers In n less public
way. "I.ove me little. love me long
Edward Coke was "f the opinion that" mans
house is his castle"
To Milton We owe "Thc paradise Of fool. IA
wilderness of sweets" and "Moping melancholy
and moonstruck madness"
EdH ard Young tells US death loves n shining
mark. "a fool at forty Is fool indeed. but, alas.
for his knowledge of human nature when he tells
US "Man wants but little here below. nor that lit
tie long"
From Bacon CONES knowledge IL power, and
Thomas Southcrnc reminds that "Pity's akin ("
love"
Dean Swift Thought that "Bread is the s,afI o:
lifc.'
cambcii found tina, Coming events cas-, their
shadows before and "'Tis distance lends en-
chantmcnt to the view"
"a thing Of beauty Is u joy forever" il from
Franklin said "Goi helps those who help them
selves. and Lawrence Sterne comforts US with the
thought, "God tempers the wind 10 the shorn lamb.
Even some Of the slang" phrases Of the day
have a legitimate origin. 'Pntting your foot in
i"is certainly not n very elegant mode Of expires.
sion, but according 90 the "Asiatic Researches"i IL