New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-03-14
WHOLE NUMBER 49,.
Curious Savings Of the Ancients.

curious Sayings Of the Ancients.
Plato once said of one of his pupils,
who was always flattering him, "He is
my adjective. He agrees with me in
every case.
Demosthenes being asked why he was
such q coward in battle, said, His In
dignation Mt fighting was always so
strong that his feelings were sure to run
away with him.
Theopompus was asked if he had ever
seen the sun rise. ..Often,'' said the
young spendthrift, sit lights me every
night to bed.
Zotyrus would say, take my word
for it. the man who will not wait upon
himself will ultimately become waiter
upon others
Cammyses was q great drunkard, but
he was always ashamed of it. He never
drank. he said, excepting to forget he
had been drinking.
Ephemerides, hearing one Paganenes
very much extolled because he PLAYED
much better upon one string OF the harp
than most musicians did upon seven,
said, eff he plays SO we'll upon one
string, how much better, then, would he
play upon none!'
Socrates being asked by foolish fell
low how far q woman's influence ex-
tended, replied, .'As far as her tongue, y
meaning that there was no end to it.
Socrates was wont to say, 1.-The
greatest revenge Iwish my worst enemy
is to marry
Somebody was reproaching Arts
tippus for going about with SO many at
PENDANTS. Nov. don't be alarmed
they serve me all for nothing said
Aristippus. 1T is little kindness for
which | am indebted to my creditors y
Sycophantes was saying to Alexander
that good beginning was half the bat
tie Il cannot tell, said the proud son
OF Philip; ''when l fight I never do
things by halves"
A young man said to Sophocles, "H
you could coin all the silver in my hair,
how rich, old man, you would be!n
"Not half so rich as you would be,
young man." answered Sophocles, elf
you could only sell all the brass in your
face
1t was Chic, one of the seven wise
men, who said, "A divorce should be
granted in all cases where wife has q
mother-in-law.'
Flaminius being accused of buying a
handsome villa with the public spoils,
Indignantly exclaimed, "Well, suppos-
ing l did, isn't it the first duty of q
general, let me, ask, to make good his
retreat?''
Obilius and Minutius the younger had
quarrelled. The great Obilius was
asked upon what terms they met
why" he said, 1--WE are something like
pair of scissors. We meet, look ex-
ceedingly sharp, but pass without cut
ting one another"
A foolish fellow was boasting before
Cicero of what his ancestors had done
for Rome. ''You need not remind us"
said the orator, "that the geese once
saved the capitol"
Artaxerxes was very corpulent. He
would, in a jocund humor say, Il am
true king; enlarge my possessions
every day"
Some one prophesied OF Ovid that
''his nose was so long that it would be
sure to reach posterity."
Philip said Of the Thebans, "Thcy are
like blue-bottles. They would sooner
knock their heads against the window
than come in at the door,
Cato said of glutton, THAT blades
stomach is like carpet bag. 1t is never
SO full but that he can stuff something
more into it. y
Crispus hearing his master in pas
sion ask another servant, who, being
drunk, was lying out in the sun, What
he was doing therep" answered, "He's
taking the chill off the wine. sir ;,