The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19

Warning by Campbell. Discretion is
the better part of ValOr'' occurs in
Beaumont and Fletcher's "A King and
No King" and Shakespeare uses al
most the same words in Henry W
THE better part Of valor is discretion,
/ in which better part have saved my
life
BY SEVERAL AUTHORS.
Many otner sayings have been used
with slight variations by several authors.
Comparisons are odious is found in
Burton's anatomy OF Melancholy" in
Heyward's a Woman Killed by Kind
ness" in Dome and in George Herbert.
In Don Quixote'' We read that Com
parsons are offensive" Thomas a KEN
pts says that "Of two evils the less is to
be chosen" and in Priors limitations OF
Horace we ind, OF two evils 1 have
chosen the least" Wordsworth is re-
sponsible for the statement that The
child is father to the man" but in Para
disc Regained' Milton had already said:
The childhood shows the man.
As morning shows the day"
The changes have been rung on the
Middleton gives ''Au is not gold that
glistens'' Spenser, in the .'Faery Queene, -
says Gold is not all that golden seems. -
Lydgate has In all that glistens gold.
all is not gold that outward showeth
light" Drydens version is ''All, as they
say. that glistens is not gold and
Chaucer, in the Canterbury Tales" says
the same thing, but with more circum-
locution:
But think that which schineth as the
Is naught. as that have herd tell"
There's luck in odd numbers" Lover
makes Rory O'Moore say. And in The
Merry Wives of Windsor We find Good
luck lies in odd numbers. They
say there is a divinity in odd numbers.
either in nativity. chance or death.
Heaven never helps the man who will
not act" said Sophocles. and Sir Philip
Sidney put the same idea in smaller COM
pass in God helps those who help them
SHAKESPEARE CREDITED TO BIBLE
Holy" George Herbert is the author
or compiler of many shrewd sayings
such as Wouldst thou have thy cake
and keep it, too? The wearer knows
where the shoe pinches, Little pitchers
have wide ears 1t IS poor sport that 1;1
grind slow, but sure Half the world
knows not how the other half lives,
His bark is worse than his bite" The
burnt child breads the FIRE" The mill
cannot grind with water that is past"
Whose house is glass must not throw
stones at another. God comes to see
without a bell. An i'll labOrer Cuarrels
with his tools, ITO a clOse-shOrn sheep
God gives wind by measure" This IS
probably the original prOverb, God tenn
perS the wind 10 the shOrn lamb" which
was said by Sterne in ''Tristram Shandy."
Herbert also quotes Man proposes. God
disposes." This was first said by Thomas
a Kempis.
A great many Of our common sayings
are taken from Shakespeare. As dead
as a doOrnail' and TO give the devil his
due" are from Henry "" My cake
is dough" is from The Tanning Of the
Shrew." Screw your courage to the
sticking place is found in Macbeth"
Some quotations from Shakespeare are
credited to the Bible as, for instance.
That bourne from which no traveller re-
turns" which is used by Il worthy dea-
con once d week in prayer meeting. in
the belief that it is a scriptural quota
ton.
for several much-used sayings. such as
''Beggars should never be choOsers,
found in 1.-The Scornful Lady" and "One
mans meat is another mans poison"
which is taken from Loves Cure" and
in Buffers .'Hudibras" occur To take
the wrong sow by the ear" ITO get by
hook or crook" ITO count their chickens
ere they're hatched'' and ITO smell a
rat.