The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-15
THE WAY THEY PUT IT.

Weii-knOwn Sayings RH They Have
Been Expressed By Different Men.
From the New York Sun.
II has been said that there were orig
inally only three jokes in the world
some say seven-and from these he's
sprung modern humor; so people long
ago learned TO expect nothing new I'M
der the sun and TO agree with Pliny, the
elder. who before he persisted in the
Vesuvius eruption Of A. d. 70. remarked:
I'm comparing various authors with
one another I have discovered that some
Of the gravest and latest writer's have
transcribed. word for word. from former
works. without making acknowledg-
ments."
Some OF these transcriptions make in
teresting comparisons.
Longfellow wrote. Art Is long, and
time is fieeting." Goethe put the senti-
ment into German. thus:
Ach. Got; die Kunst Isl lang,
IND kurz ist unser Leben.
Which Bayard Taylor translated al
most literally:
All. God. bur ar l. long
And life. alas Is feeting.
Chaucer had said. The lyfe so short.
the craft so longe 10 lerne." but Hippoc-
rates. long before him, had uttered the
same thought
Pope said:
Know thyself. presume not God 10 scan;
The proper study Of mankind is man.
But Chaucer had said: Full wise IS
he that can himself knowe" Cervantes
put II. Make Il thy business to knoe,
thyself, which is the most difficult thine
in the world Diogenes Laertius saiG
that Tales was the originator of the say
ing, 'Plutarch gives IL 10 Plato" and II
is found also in slightly variant form on
the tongue of Pythagoras. Chilo. Cleo
bolus. Bias. and Socrates. Juvenal took
its origin from the human realm when
he says it descended from heaven.
Carlyle wrote of zone ufe-a little
CLEAN OF time between two eternities. Of
Marcus AureliUs had written, Deem not
life a thing Of consequence. for look al
! the yawning void Of the future. and al
that other limitless space, the past" The
old Saxon. Bede, Hkened man in his
earthly life to a sparrow flying out OF
the dark night into the lighted banquet
hall for a moment only. and then on
/ again into the black and unknown night
mo man IS a hero 20 his own valet,
1 is attributed 20 Nine. de Sevigne. Mar
/ shall Catinat said that no man IS a her,
/ 20 his valet de chambre" Montague OBJ
served that Few men have been admired
/ nv thpfr. ov,rr Go~1ea+foc A-a rlfrt.r~1
says that Antigonus replied modestly I,
a eulogium. My servant is not aware o
/ this"
When the candles are out. all womei
I are fair, said Plutarch When ali can
/ dies be out. all cats be gray" said JOIN
/ Haywood in the sixteenth century, an,
! ". s. Gilbert recently sang:
she'd often PAS for forty-6re
IN the dusk With a light behind her.
ITO err is human. 10 forgive divine.
wrote Pope. Plutarch had pat II. 70
( 10 err in opinion, though ii be not IN
part Of wise men. is at least human"
/ Tertullian. IN the second century
wrote that ''he who fees viii fgh
| again Goldsmith puts it:
Fer he who fights and rms away
Mag live 20 Sight another day.
ITO be prepared for war is one Of III
most effectual means Of preserving III
| peace" is recognized as belonging Z,
| George Washington Horace had said
In peace. as a wise man. he shoul,
make suitable preparation for" With
\ Publius Syrus put It. we should provid
IN peace what we need in war"