Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-19
! Where to Find Old Sayings

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It is an old saying that "a tree is
known by ita fruit" but We might
iind II difIicult. indeed, 70 tell what
sort of a book most OF our popular
quotations came from II we Judged\by
the quotations, says Edith A. Brown IN
the Record, The following list OF old
sayings and their origins will trace out
many household words" for you, and
you may be surprised 10 discover that
some Of tho most familiar nre taken
from the Bible. Here are the quota
tions; az
"There Is death In the pot" 10 from
the Bible, II. Kings, w., 4Oi I'm death
they were not dlylded,"is spoken OF
Saul and Jonathan, II, Samuel, l.. 2Sj
"A man after his own heart" |. Sam
uel, kill, IA; "The apple OF his eye"
Deut, xxxii., 10; "A stu small voice."
II. Kings, XIX, ~; "EBtaped with the
skin of my teeth" Job XIX, 20; Like
a green bay tree" Psalm xxxyii, 30;
"Riches make (not take. as II is often
quoted themselves wings" Provp
xiii, s; Heap Goals Of fire upon his
head" Prov XIV, 20; mo new thing
under the SUM-" Eccles l., 0; "of maxi
Ing many books there Is no end
Eccles, Kill, 12; "Peace, peace, when
there 10 no peace" (made famous by
Patrick Henry, Jer, WILL, II; my
name is legion" Mark ", o. ITO KICK
against the pricks," Acts ix, 5.
make a virtue OF necessity" Is from
shakespeare's 1.-TWO Gentlemen OF
Verona"
"All that glltters Is not gold" usual
ly quoted, "All is not gold that gilt
ters'--"Merchant of Venice; Screw
your courage to the sticking place" not
point Macbeth" From this same
source comes also, make assurance
doubly sure; Hang out our banners
on the outward mot outer) walls" and
Keep the word OF promise to our (not
the) ear, but break 1t to our hope"
ut is an Ill wind that turns none to
good" usually quoted TITS an Ill wind
that blows nobody good" from Thomas
Tasser $500, who also, gave us,
christmas comes but once year."
and "Look ere thou leap"
"Look before you ere you leap"
commonly quoted, "Look before you
leap" ls traced to "Hudibras"; also
giving us, "All cry and no wool" (not
little wool, and Count their chickens
ere (not before) they're hatched. "out
of mind as soon as out of sight" al
most invariably quoted, "out of sight,
out OF mind"--Lord Brooke.
John Milton gives us What though
the field be lost. all is not lost"
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen;
Necessity, the tyrants plea; Peace
hath her victories" and many more.
Through thick and thin"-Dryden.
"When Greeks Joined Greeks, then was
the tug of war;" often quoted, when
Greek meets Greek then comes the tug
of war"--From Nathaniel Lee, 1892.
"of two evils / have chosen the
least"-Prior.
Classic ground"-Addison.
"As clear as whistle"-Byron, 1853.
"a fell, feeling makes one (not
us) wondrous kind. ."-Garrick.
ASK me no questions and I'll tell
you no fibs"--Goldsmit
mot much the worse for wear" (not
none the rse))-Cowper
"Wise and mastery inactivity" gen
orally attributed to Randolph, belongs
to Macintosh, in 1871.
"His Gods image cut in ebony
Thomas Fuller.
"As good as a play"-King Charles,
when in parliament attending the dis
cussion of Lord Ross divorce bill.
Pumping q man"-otway's Venice
Preserved"
"a little bird told me" comes from
Eccles X, 20, "For a bird Of the air
shall carry the voice, and that which
hath wings shall tell the matter"
"He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day."
are lines usually ascribed to "Hudi-
bras" but are really much older. They
are to be found in book published in
1856. The same idea is, however, ex-
pressed in couplet published in 1912,
while one of the few fragments Of
Menander, the Greek writer, that have
been preserved embodies the same idea
In single line. The couplet in "Hudi-
brasp Is:
"For those that fly may fight again,
(Which he can never do that's slain"
Sir Walter Scott used the expression,
There's good time coming" in "Rob
Roy"