The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-02
AUTHORSOF WISE WORDS
PHRASES THAT ARE NOT CREDITED
TO THEIR PROPER SOURCE.


For Those Who Make Quotations.
Many Trlte Sayings Wrongly At
tributed to shakespeare or the Bible.
Famous Writers Who Merit Remsm-
brauce.
From the Boston Globe.
In popular phrases there are two great
sources, both so much drawn upon that we
arc apt to attribute all such sayings to one
or the other-namely, the Bible and Shake
speare. Il is often difficult to persuade peo-
pie that the saying, God tempers the
wind to the shoru lamb, is not IN the Bible
it is, in faot a phrase of Sterne's, the au-
thor of "Tristram Shandy."
"Cleauliness is next TO godlluess" and
"aod helps those who help themselves" are
also generally supposed to be in the Bible,
but are not.
Many Of our usually quoted phrases are,
however, from the Bible, among them being
mo rest for the sole of the foot" DARK
ness which may be felt, Bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave" THE
wife Of my BOSOM" II am going the way
of all the .earth,n "A still, small voice, -
IAN that man hath he will give for his
life, "There the wicked cease from troub-
ling and the weary are at rest" "Man is
born 80 trouble as the sparks fly upward
20, that my adversary had written book, u
"The lines are fallen to me in pleasant
places" ellis enemies shall lick the dust, /"
Happy is the man that has bis culver full, "
THE heart knoweth its own bitterness"
Heap Goals of fire on his head, open re-
Duke is better than secret love-" There ia
no new thing under the sun, " IA live dog
is better than "A dead hon, ~ 1.-THE race il not
to the swift, nor the battle TO the strong,
Wise in bis own conceit, - "Grind the faces
OF the po0r,n "Welghed IN the balance and
found wanting" "W no touches pitch will
be detled, y Laughing TO seorn, "-"He that
runs may read, DO not toss pearls before
swine, and great many other express
sions that have served the turn OF thousands
OF years, and help US to realize how little
human nature changes in the generations
that go by, since what suited men of so long
ago expresses our minds still so we'll
WRITER'S OF SMART THINGS.
But, on the other hand, many familiar
phrases have another source than the Bible,
and some of the best known have been orig
inally said by people not at all otherwise
famous as ssyers Of smart things
Mime. Cornue was the author Of the
phrase, mo man is a hero to his valet
One Harel said: Speech was given to
man to disguise his thoughts"
An obscure Journalist invented a phrase
that was immensely quoted in France as
having been said by the Bourbon prince,
who was restored to the French throne in
1914 as Charles x. He was credited with
assuring the nation that he would not re-
store old abuses in the following phrase
Nothing is altered. There is only one
Frenchman the more IN France
"a nation OF shopkeepers," generally at.
tTibuted to Napoleon l., really OCCURS IL
Adam Smiths wealth OF Nations
The pen is miRhtier than the sword" il
the saying of Bulwer Lytton.
"a thing Of beauty is joy forever" ii
from Keats.
"1'he heart that has truly loved never
forgets" belongs to Tom Moore; 30 do "rhe
luxury of woe" and "The trail Of the SER
pent is over them all"
ITO live in hearts We leave behind is not
to die, was the pretty saying Of Campbell,
and his, also is Coming events cast their
shadow before
WAD5WORTH's IDEAL.
"Plain living and high thinking" was
WadswOrths ideal.
Rose like a rocket and fell like ita
stick" was said, incorrectly as smartly, by
Thomas Paine Of Burke.
Variety is tho very spice OF life that
gives it all its flavor" is not quite the ssuti-
ment that we expect from the excellent
Cowpsr but he said 10. 1t was he also who
wanted "a lodge in some vast wilderness, y
and declared that God made the country,
man the town."
DELIBERATIONS artful aidn was spoken of
by the little-read poet Churchill.
''Pursues the even tenor Of his way" was
the phrase Of a bishop Of London In the last
century, DR.. Porteous. 1.-THE pink Of per-
lection" was originated by Oliver Gold
smith; so were Measures, not men" and
"Man wants but little here below, nor
wants that little long"
Gray, the author Of the "Elegy," is re-
spousible for many popular phrases, among
them, Full many gem Of purest ray Sc
rene" ITO waste its sweetness on the desert
air, This pleasing, anxious being,n "The
paths OF glory lead but to the grave,n and
Where ignorance Is bliss 'tis folly TO be
wise"
and adorn tale" and "Who lives to please
must please TO live.n He also said, "Who
| drives fat oxen should himself be fat" In
which there is more sound than sense; and
uttered the dangerous saying, "Claret Tor
boys, port for men, but brandy for heroes. v
HAPPY PHRASES OF POPE AND BURNS.
Pope and Burns are respectively tho
authors of more familiar phrases than any,
body else but Shakespeare in modern times.
Here are few OF POpe's: "Shoot folly as
she flee" Hope springs eternal in the
human breast" Man never Is but always
to be blessed" "Whatever is, Is right p
THE proper study OF mankind is man, II
| "Grows with his growth and Strengthens
with his strength "Order is heavens first
| law "Worth makes the man and the want
| Of it the fellow" "Honor and shame from
no condition rise; act we'll your part
there all the honor les" IAN honest
mans the noblest work of God, - "Thou vert
my guide, philosopher and friend, " "Wo-
| mans at best a contradiction still, " "Just as
the tWig Ia bent the trees inclined, ""Who
shall decide when doctors disagreep "a
| little learning Is q dangerous thing, +" ITO
err is human, to forgive divine" Beauty
draws us with a single hair. " Fools rush ia
where angels fear to tread, Damn with
faint praise" The many headed monster, y
aud an endless number Of equally familiar
aud clever phrases took their rise In the
clever little hunchback's brain.
A few specimens Of Bu:ns' happy phrases
90 conclude: 1.-THE best laid schemes Of
mice aud men gang aft a-gley, The fear o.
hell's the hanRman's whip, 10 hand the
wretch in order.n "But pleasures are like
peoples spread, you seize the flower, its
bloom Is she'd 20 wad some power the
Riftie gle US 10 see ourselves as ithers see
us" "Msu's inhumanitY TO man makes
countless thousands mourn" "Nursing her
wrath to keep it warm" THE mirth and
fun grew fast and furious" Whats done