The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-15
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
The Bench and the Bar Are Responsible
For Many of Them.

For Many of Them.
Lieutenant Colonel Dalbiac, the
Conservative member in the house of
commons for Central Finsbury, has
presented to the public an excellent
Dictionary of Quotations" on
which he has worked for upward of
five years. Reference to chapter and
verse for each quotation is given,
and glance at the index of authors
will prove, IN a way that is at once
convincing and gratifying, how large
ly the members of the bar and of
the judicial bench have contributed
to the authorship of the famous
| phrases which have become famil-
lar in our mouths as household
words.
Sir Edward Coke and Blackstone
are highly technical writers, but
Colonel Dalbiac has successfully
laid both the ''Third Institutes" and
the "Commentaries" under contri-
| button. To Coke we owe the famil-
lar expression, "A mans house is
his castle, while Blackstone gives
us the we'll known axiom, MAN
was formed for society,"
Lord Bacon, who had "chosen all
knowledge for his province is, as
might be anticipated, the author Of
many familiar quotations. Here are
a few: "a crowd is not company,
and faces are but gallery of pic
lures, and talk but tinkling Gym
bal where there is no love-" "A
man is but what he knoweth." "a
mans disposition is never well
known till he be crossed" "Chil-
dren sweeten labors, but they make
misfortunes more bitter; they in
crease the cares of life, but they
mitigate the remembrance of
death" discretion of speech is
more than eloquence.' He that
hath wife and children hath given
hostages to fortune. for they are
impediments to great enterprises
C4IAO1 VI N41CUO VI h41SChACA'
knowledge is power" Lockers
on many times see more than the
gamesters. lone foul sentence
doth more hurt than many foul ex-
amples.'' ''Praise is the refec-
ton of virtue" Reading maketh
a full man, conference a ready
man, and writing an exact man. :"
'Some books are to be tasted,
others are to be swallowed, and
some few are to be chewed and
digestcd.'' 1.-The knowledge Of man
is as the waters, some descend
ing from above and some springing
from beneath, the one informed by
the light of nature and the other
inspired by divine revelation.
1.-THE mold of a mans future is in
his own hands 1.-THE remedy is
worse than the disease. - ''There is
nothing makes man suspect more
than to know little. - wives are
young mems mistresses, compan-
ions for middle age and old mems
nurses"
John Selden is the author of tho
immortal sayings, 'Old friends are
best" and "Syllables govern the
world" while Jeremy Bentham,
the eminent judicial writer Of the
present century, has given to us,
1t is the greatest good to the great
est number which is the measure Of
right and wrong
The saying, when rogues fall
out and honest men get their own, :"
fell from the lips Of Sir M. Hale
when sitting on the judicial bench,
and the saying, 1.-THE greater the
truth, the greater the libel. - was
first uttered by Lord Mansfield in his
capacity of chief justice of England.
Lord Brougham, speaking in the
house Of commons in 1923, first gave
utterance to the saying, 1.-The
schoolmaster is abroad" The full
paragraph of the speech runs thus
1.-The schoolmaster is abroad, and /
trust more to him, armed with hig
primer, than I do to the soldier III
full military array, for upholding
and extending the liberties of the
country
Fielding, whose unique knowledge
Of human nature was largely de-
rived from his experience as a pe
lice magistrate, has encircled our
literature by the saying, ''Love and
scandal are the best .sweeteners of
tea"
Nor has the origination of well
known sayings been confined, so far
as legal circles are concerned, to
those who have passed away. Au
gustin Birrell, @. c., M. P, occu-
pies very conspicuous position III
the pages of Colonel Dalbiac's ''Dic-
tionary of Quotations. y To Mr.. Biz
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