The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-18
EVERYDAY QUOTATIONS.
Familiar Phrases and From Whence
They Come.
CFrom the indianapolis Press.)

From the indianapolis Press-)
To say nothing of the innumerabie quo
tations with which we lard our daily CON
yersation. who can tell off-hand whence
come the thousands of trte. though mean
ing. phrases. idioms. and expressions that
in such great measure constitute the
stock-iu-trade Of all cur discourse? For
example. what is more familiar than the
statement that while there is life there 5
hope? Yet bow few are aware that
very long time ago Theocritus made use
of this self-same expression. Many OF us
have had frequent occasion 10 bring INTO
active service the phrase over the hills
and Tar away" without being aware that
We were accurately quoting from john
GAYS The Beggar's Opera" and few OF
us have given Lord Chesterfield the credit
for originating the expression. chapter oil
accidents" without which the telegraph
news in the daily paper would. fer the
most part. go unheadlined.
John Byron. in an eighteenth century
letter. originated the comparison AS clear
as whistle" and it is yet far from OBJ
solete: Henry Fielding. in The Covent
Garden Tragedy" remarked that much
NAV be said on both Sides" Benjamin
| Franklin said God helps them that help
themselves" Dr. Samuel Johnson iirst
smoke of "a very unclubable man.. and
promulgated the theory that nell IS
paved with good intentions" Thomas
GRAY is credited with saying where ig-
norance is bliss, it's folly to be wise" and
some years before Matthew Prior. in ad-
dressing the Hon Charles Montague,
said:
From ignorance our comfort flows
The only Wietched are the wise
Henry Carey was the author of the fire.
quently varied exclamation. What Lon
strous tail our eat has got"
t,l 9gI To IN vi
Garrick: Facts are stubborn things TO
Tobias Smollett; THE world is mine" to
oliver Goldsmith: "A wise and salutary
neglect" to Edmund Burke; Apt allit-
eration's artful aid" to Charles Church
i'll; Boys will be boys to Isaac Bick-
erstaff; With all thy faults l love thee
still" to William Cowper; An oyster
may be crossed in love-" TO K. B. Sheridan;
| Rise with the lark" to James HurdIs;
Neat not gaudy." to Charles Lamb; "A
delusi0n a mockery. and snare" to Lord
Denman; "A sea of upturned faces, to
Sir Walter Scott.
Charles Miner first spoke of AN ak to
grind" John Keats said "a thing OF beau-
ty is a Joy forever; all mankind loves
a lover" Emerson remarked; across the
walnuts and the wine" said Tennyson. IN
The Millers Daughter" Hippocrates be-
lieved that desperate diseases require
desperate remedies" the Delphic Oracle
told Polycrates to leave no stone unturn-
ed" Phaedrus told how the bald man,
who. in attempting to crush fly, struck
himself a violent blow on the head, added
insult to injury" The phrase, "conspic-
nous by his absence" was first used by
Tacitus. though its authorship has been
enormously ascribed to Lord John Rus
sell. Aristophanes advocated calling
shade a spade" Tertullian uttered the
paradoxicaI statement. Il believe it. be-
cause it is impossible" st. Augustine de-
cided when at Rome. 10 do as the Ro-
mans did" In 1859. Butler. in his "Dyet'5
Dry Dinner" said 1t is unreasonable
and unwholesome in all months that have
not an K in their name to eat an oyster.
Francis / wrote to his mother from the
imperial camp near Pavia, All is lost
save honor" Tacitus. Terence Busy,
Rabutin, Noltare. and De Sevigne have
all remarked that God always flvors
the heaviest battalions." Schelling called
architecture frozen music; Iaileyrahu
somewhere appropriated the phrase. II IS
the beginning of the end" Nine. CoInuel,
not Nine. De Sevigne, said. NO man Is
hero to his valet" No less than Twelve
classic writers have employed various
forms of "All is not gold that glitters.'
In Don Quixotc" Dome, Burton, Hey
wood. and Herbert we find that com
parsons are odioUs,' while Shakespeare
has gone step further ana calIed them
''odorous' Beaumont and Fletcher, But
Ter, Prior Pope. and Burns agree TO let
the devil take the hndmost.'
Britain, W. Elderton. King. Burns, and
Colman assert that faint heart neer
won fair lady" Shakespeare and Dry
den give the devil his due" Horace.
Aiassinger, Pope. and Rowe seek THE
golden mean" Bacon. Sidney, Fuller,
South. Dryden, Johnson. and Burke had
their lucid intervals" Gay, Shenstone,
Cowper and Lloyd burnt the 'mdnight
OIL Rahelais. Blackjack, and Butler
claimed that the moon is made OF green
cheese" Ray Middleton, Ben Jonson.
Butler, and Farquhar 'smelled a rat.
Rabelais. Chaucer. Shakespeare. and Dry
den made a virtue of necessity Pse'e
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