The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-03-11
EVERYDAY SAYINGS.
Terse Quotations That Are Popular
FavoriteS
From the New YORK Post.

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off origin. and it is interesting to learn
when and by whom they were first said.
The society editor could i'll describe a
festiyity without the aid of the wee
sma' hours ayont the twal, which is
found in Burns poem death and Doctor
Horubrook Dancing is never dancing,
but people trip the light, fantastic toe,
for which expression the editor is indebted
to no less a parsonage than John Milton.
Conspicuous by his absence was used
by Lord John Russell, who quoted it from
Tacitus. And echo answers where is
from Lord Byron Bride of Abydos.
1T beggars description is found in AN
tony and Cleopatra. Where Ignorance
is bliss It's folly TO be wise was said by
Gray in his ode To Eton College.
We'll begun is half done may be traced
back to Horace. According to her gar
mcnt She cut her cloth was said by Dry
den in The Cock and Fox. Sir John
Holt in Sir William Morris Case said,
The better the day the better the deed.
"Out Of sight, out of mind dates
back to 1868 and is found in Googe' 5
Epytaphes Eglogs. and Sonettes.
And there. though last, not least, is
from Skeltou's ''Colin Cout, and
Through thick and thin from the
81 Faery Queen.
Rare Ben .Jonson gives the advice
To laugh and be fat. One of Bishop
Hornes sermons Is the source of at is
better to wear out than to rust out.
Geor.c Wither in a Poem on Christmas
gives the warning that 'Care will kill a
cat, and i couplet from John Woleot 5
s. .ExpoStulary Odes' contains the same
sentiment
Care Tee our coffin adds nail, no doubt.
And every grin SO merry draws one out
Nothing venture, nothing have, is
found in Five Hundred Points Of ilus-
bandry, by Themas Tusser Churchill,
in The Ghost, said, The more haste
the les speed TO % in one ear and
ont at the other probably had its origin
in Chaucer 'One care Il heard, at the
other il went out
Prior. in his .'Epilosue to Lucius,
gave us m adase which Is in use every day,
The gray mare viii prove the better
horse My dear, nv better half,
was said By Sir Philip Sidney, in Area
dia. Sauce 70 the goose Is sauce for
the gauder' is from The New Maxim,
OF Tom Brown. and another prnverb Of
ten exempIi6ed is from fable by Gay
Ia every age and cline we see
rwo of trade can ne 'er agree
Ben Jonsou, in The Devil Is an Ass,
saws that "A burnt child breads the fire
" Tis good To- look before You leap comes
from Martin parkers Excellent New
Medley. Goldsmith tells Us that Man
wants but little here below, Coming
events east their shadows before Is found
in Iochiel'- Warning. BY Campbell.
Discretion Is the better part Of yalor
occurs in Beaumont aud Fletcher \
King and No King and Shakespeare
uses almost the same words in Henry
The better part OF Yalor Is dis
crctiou, in which better part have saved
my lie
Many other sayings have been used
wi.h slight variations By several authors.
Comparisons are odious is found in
Burton Anatomy Of Melancholy, in
Heywanls a Woman Killed 10y Kind
uess, in Donne, aud in George Herbert.
In Don Quixo,e We read that Com
parisons are offensive. Thomas KEN
pis saws that .'Of two evils the less is to
be chosen, and in Prior limitations of
Horace We fnd, "Of two evils | have
chosen the least. Wordsworth is re-
,pousible for the statement that The
child Is father to the man, but in Par
adise Regained Milton had already said
The childhood shows the man
A. morning shows the day.
The changes have been rung on the ex-
preston An i not gold that glitters
Middleton gives IAN is not gold that
sli,tens. Spenser, in the "Faerie
Queene, says, Gold Is not all that gold
en- seems. Lydgate has In all that
ylisterS gold all is not gold that outward
showeth light. Dryden : version is "All,
as they say. that glistens Is not gold
and Chaucer. in the Canterbury Tales
says the same thing, but with mere cir
cumlocution
But | think that which schiueth As the gold
Isnaught as that have herd tell.
There luck in odd numbers. - Lever
makes Rory O. Moore say. And in The
Merry Wives Of Windsor we find Coed
luck lies in odd numbers, = < j they say
there Is divinity in odd numbers, either
in nativity, chance OF death. Heaven
never helps the man who viii not act,
said Sophocles, and Sir Philip Sidney put
the same idea in smaller compass in God
helps those who help themselves.
Holy George Herbert is the author
or compiler Of many shrewd sayings, such
a. "Wouldst thou have thy cake and keep
it tooY The wearer knows where the
shoe pinchcs, Little pitchers have wide
ears, 1T is poor sports that is not worth
the candle. God mills 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 lire. The mill cannot grind with
water that is past, ''WhcSe house is glass
must not throw stones at another, God
comes to see without bell, An i'll
laborer quarrels with his tools, 10 a
close shon sheep God gives wind by
measure. This is probably the origin of
the proverb 'God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb, which was said by Sterne in
,.Tristram Shandy Herbert also quotes
s,Man proposes; God disposes, " This
was first said by Thomas kempis
\ great many of our common sayings
are taken from Shakespeare. AS dead
as door nail and TO give the devil his
due are from Henry "" "My cake
is dough is from tThe 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 worthy deacon
once a week in prayer meeting in the be
lief that it is a Scriptural quotation.
Beaumont and Fletcher are responsible
for several much used sayings, such a.
s'Beggars should never be choosers,
f,unI IN .sVha Scornfnl Lady - and ssOnt