The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-01-20
; Where to Find Old Sayings

|
1t is an old saying that "a tree is
known by it's fruit" but we might
find it difficult, indeed, to tell what
| sort of a book most of our popular
quotations came from If 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 to discover that
some of the most familiar are taken
from the Bible. Here are the quota
| tons:
There is death in the pot" is from
the Bible, II. Kings, w., 40; I'm death
they were not divided, lis spoken of
Saul and Jonathan, ii. Samuel, l., 20;
"a man after his own heart" |. Sam
uel, xiii, IA; "The apple of his eye"
Deut., xxi, 10; "a still small voice."
II. Kings, xix, IL; Escaped with the
skin of my teeth" Job xix, 20; Like
a green bay tree" Psalm xxxvii., 80;
"Riches make (not take, as it is often
quoted) themselves wings Prov,
xiii, 5; Heap Goals of fire upon his
head" Prov. XIV, %; "No new thing
under the sum-" Eccles. l., 8; "Of max
ing many books there is no end"
Eccles., xii, IL; peace, peace, when
there is no peace" (made famous by
Patrick Henry, Jer., viii, IL; my
name is legion" Mark v, 8; ITO kick
against the pricks," Acts tx, 5.
MAKE a virtue of necessity" is from
Shakespeare's 1.-TWO Gentlemen Of
Verona"
GAIL that glitters is not gold" usual
ly quoted, "All is not gold that gilt
ters"-"M 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 outerD walls" and
Keep the word of promise to our (not
the) ear, but break it to our hope"
ut is an i'll wind that turns none to
good" usually quoted 'It's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good" from Thomas
Tasser (15SO), 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" is traced to "Hudibras"; also
giving us, "All cry and no WOOL (not
little WOOL, and Count their chickens
ere (not before) they're Matched" "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 tyrant's plea; Peace
hath her victories" and many more.
Through thick and thin"-Dryden.
when Greeks joined Greeks, then was
the tuA of war;" often quoted, when
Greek meets Greek then comes the tug
of war''-From Nathaniel Lee, 1892.
"Of two evils I have chosen the
least"-Prior.
Classic ground"
GAS clear as whistle"-Byron, 1853.
"a follow feeling makes one (not
us) wondrous kind. '-Garrick.
"Ask me no questions and I'll tell
you no fibs"-Goldsmith.
mot much the worse for wear" (not
none the worse))-Cowper.
"Wise and mastery inactivity" gen
orally attributed to Randolph, belongs
to Macintosh, in 1871.
His Gods image cut in ebony
Thomas Fuller.
GAS good as a play"-King Charles,
when in parliament attending the dis
cussion of Lord Ross divorce bill.
Pumping a man"-Otway' "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 a book published in
1856. The same idea is, however, ex-
pressed in a couplet published in 1912,
while one of the few fragments OF
Menander, the Greek writer, that have
been preserved embodies the same idea
in a single line. The couplet in ''Hudi-
bras" 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