Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-16
E\ EKYDAY SAYINGS.
VERSE QUOTATIONS THAT ARE PoPU-
LAR FAVORITES.


and It Is of Interest TO Learn when
aud by whom These Words That
Live We're brought Into Being.
Tho everyday sayings which are on
tverybodys tongue sometimes have
faroff origin, and it Is interesting to learn
when and by whom they were first said.
The society editor could i'll describe a
festivity without the aid of "thc wco sma'
hours ayont the twal," which is found in
Burns poem Death and Doctor Horn
brook" Dancing is never dancing, but
people "Trip the light fantastic toe" for
which expression the editor is indebted to
no less Il parsonage than John Milton.
Conspicuous 10y his absence" was used
by Lord John Russell, who quoted it from
Tacitus "And echo answers where is
from Lord Byron's Bride of Abydos
alt beggars description" is found in An
tony and Cleopatra. "Whcrc ignorance
Is bliss It's folly to be wise" was said by
Gray In his Ode TO Elton College.
"Wcu begun is half done" may be traced
back TO Horace according to her gar.
inent she cut her cloth" was said by Dry
den in "The Cock and Fox" Sir John
Holt in "Sr William Morris Case said,
"Out OF siuht. out OF mind dates back to
1853 and is found in Googc's "Epytaphes
Fglogs, and SunnCttcs " "And there
though last, not least, 80 is from Skclton' s
"Colin C"out, ~ and Through thick and
thnn from the Facry Queen
Rare Ben Jonson gives the advice To
"Laugh ana be fat. one Of Bishop
Hornc's sermons is tho source Of 1T is
better to wear out than to rust out. "
George Withcr in q "Pocm on Ch.istmas
gives the warning that "CGre will kill n
cat, and couplct from John Wolcot 5
"Expostulary Odcs" contains the same
sentiment:
Care TO our coffin adds n nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.
Nothing venture, nothing have" is
found i'm "Fivc Hundred Points of Hus-
handr. by Thomas Tusscr. Churchill,
in "Tho Ghost said 1.-THE more haste
the less speed. "To go in one ear and
out at the other" probably had it's origin
IN Chauccrs Zone care it heard, at the
other it went out"
Prior, in his "Epiloguc to Lucius gave
us an adage which is in use every day,
1.-THE gray mare will prove the better
horse" My dear my better half, was
said by Sir Philip Sidney, in Arcadia.
"Saucc for the goose is sauce for the gan
der is from THE New Maxims of Tom
Brown" and another provcrb often excm-
plifcd is from fable by Gay:
In every age md cline we see
Two of n trade can ne or agree.
Ben Jonson, in "Tho Devil Is an Ass, u
says that "A burnt child breads the fire. y
" IT'S good to look before you leap
comes from Martin Parker's "Exccllent
New Medley" Goldsmith tells us that
i'Man wants but little here below.
Coming events cast their shadows be
fore is found in "Lochiel's Warning,
by Campbell Discretion is the better
part of valor" occurs in Beaumont ant
Flctcher's "a King and No King" ant
Shakespeare uses almost the same words
In Henry IV''-"The better part of valol
Is discretion, in which better part hav'
saved my life"
Many other sayings have been useC
with slight variations by several authors
"Comparisons are odious' is found II
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy" il
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 KEN
pis says that "Of two evils the Jess is to b
chosen" and in Prors limitations q
Horace" we find, "Of two evils l hav
chosen the least Wordsworth is respor
sibc for the statement that 1.-The child
father to the man, " but in paradise Re
gained" Milton had already said
The childhood shows the
AS morning shows the day.
The changes have been rung on the ey
preston IAN is not gold that glittcrs.
Middleton gives "Al is not gold tina
glstens." Spenser, in the "Faeri
a 1, hat d.
en- seems" LydRate has "1n all tina
glistcrs gold all is not gold that outwar
showeth light Drydens version is al
as they say, that glistens is not gold
and Chaucer, in the Canterbury Tales
says the same thing, but with more Gil
oumlocution:
But think that which schineth as the golt
Is naught as that have herd tell.
"Therc's luck in odd numbers" Love
makes Rory O'Moore say. And in 9TH
Merry Wives Of Windsor" we find "Goo
luck lies in odd numbers, - they sa
there is divinity in odd numbers, eitht
in nativity, chance or death "Hcave
never helps the man who will not act,
said Sophoclcs, and Sir Philip Sidney pr
the same idea In smaller compass in $50
helps those who help themselves
"Holy" George Herbert is the author
compiler of many shrcwd sayings, such {
"Wouldst thou have thy cake and keep
too," The wearer knows where II
shoe pinches, Little pitchers have wit
ears, at is poor sport that is not wort
the candle God 5 mills grind slow bl
sure" Halt the world knows not no
tho other half lives, His bark - wor
than his bite" Tho bu-.,t child drea,
the fire" 1.-THE Biiii cannot grind Wi
water thas Is past, Whose house is gla
.zapst nu- throw stones at another, " "Gt
comes to See without IA bell, ." "An
laborer quarrels with his tools, "To
close shorn sheep God gives wind
measure This is probably the origin
the proverb "God tcmpors the wind TO 1
shorn lamb, which was said by Stcrnc
"Tristram Shandy." Herbert also quot
"Nlan proposes; God dsposes III
was first said Y Thomas a <empis
A great many of our common sayin
are taken from Shakespeare. AS dc
as door nall and "Io give the devil !
due" are from Henry "" My ca
is dough" is from 1.-THE Tanning of t
Shrew." "ScrcW your courage to I
sticking place is found in Macbeth
Some quotations from Shakespeare d
credited to the Bible as, for nstanc
"That bourne from which no traveller
turns" which is used by worthy deac
once week In prayer meeting in the
lief that it is a Scripturdl quotation
beaumont and Fletcher are responsil