The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-10-01
FAMOUS PHRASES
Origin Of Some Of Worlds Most
Popular Quotations.
,SW0RDS THAT WILL ENDURE.
awhile There's Life There's Hope"
Was Written by Cicero, and Cynical
Old Diogenes It Was Who Told the
World "tiabi Is Second Nature"

1t Is recorded that an ignorant per
son, explaining her distastc for Shake
spearean performances. said that his
plays were too full of quotations. Yet
Ne. too, though we may pride ourselves
upon our learning. probably do not
know the origin of half the common
phrases we use as cnrelessly as verbs
in our daily conversation.
No less person than Cicero first
made use of the expression. while
there's life there's hope" in II letter he
wrote TO Atticus. 1--WE are in the same
boat Is not modern slang. but occurs
in letter written by Clement L., bish-
op of Rome. to the Church of COrinth
in the first century. This letter is ex-
tant and is one of the priced docu-
ments of the early CHURCH.
= Il never put off till tomorrow what
j can do today" was Lord Chester
fields explanation of how he managed
to do so much work. "Whatevcr is
worth doing at all is worth doing we'll
he wrote later i'm the famous letters to
his son.
In some of the expressions we use
habitualy may be crystalized an
epoch of history. Such is the motto "f
the Order of the Garter. "IIoni soft qui
NAL pensc" C"Shamed he he who
thinks evil of it,, which was given by
Edward III. of England. Wishing to
\. draw the best soldiers in the world TO
him. he proposed Il revival of the round
table of King Arthur. holding IL tour
nament ut Windsor castle on New
Years day. i34I. After the contest OF
arms the guests We're entertained at
his expense mt Il round table Philip.
king of France. was jealous over the
interest this aroused and forbade his
subjects TO attend. mt the same time
misrepresenting Edwards motives.
Several years later, when Edward
founded the Order of the Garter. he
chose n motto that seemed to chal-
lenge his rival monarch to think wrong
of it if he dared
Later English history has not been
/ laggard in increasing the supply of apt
remarks that have grown into every
day sayings. Lord Eldon. lord cham
.cellor of England during the first TWEEN
continually mispronounced the naine
of Henry Brougham, afterWard to he
n successor in the chancellorS Office.
Brougham objected to he called Rroff-
am. and in this regard Eldon was the
chief offender. Once, after Brou%lam
had made an excellent speech. Eldon
by way of apology pronounced his
name correctly and made Il prOverb.
"'New brooms sweep clean"
The same expression occurs fire.
-quently TO different people who could
q have no knowledge that their thought
had been given utterance before. NO
man il hero to his va,et has been
paraphrased by scores, from Nine. dn
COrnuel. witty Frenchwoman of the
seventeenth century. to Dr.. Johnson
and Napoleon The first record of 1t.
however, is found in Plutarch. who
states that when Hermodotus address
ed poem to AntigonOuS l.. king OF
Sparta hailing him MS son of the sun
and god. the monarch replied. MY
body servant sings me no such song"
1t was Diogenes. the cynic, who de-
clared that "habit is second nature"
/ The phrase circumstances over which
he has no control was used by the
Duke of Wellington in Il letter con
corning some affairs in which his son
was mixed mp and with which he de
clined to interfere. Dickens also used
the expression Il few years later when
he had Micawber write to David Cop
perfeld. circumstances beyond my in
dividual control etc.
Conspicuous by their absence" has
been used on many occasions in mod
ern oratOry. 1t WIS first used by
Tacitus In relating that in the funeral
procession of Julia. niece of Cato. Sis
ter of Brntus. wife of Cassius. many
OF the images of the most famous
families IN Rome were seen. but Gas
slus AMI Brutus shone pre-emnent he
cause their images Were not dis
played"
Nothing is certain but death and
taxes wrote Benjamin Franklin. stat
Ing that the constitution of the United
States was In operation and TO all ap-
pearances would last
''Those who live In glass houses
tEtbN HtVitS Nd' shiu ~
4. James /. of England when his favor
= fte. the Duke of buckingham. com
planned that mob had broken his
glass windows. which were at that
time Il luxury.
Mind your p's and q's" Is said IT,
have been taken from an old French
phrase ut the time of Louis XIV. A
vary lny hnU unS In fashion and the
dancing master in instructing his pu-
pills would warn them TO look out for
the position of the feet and the move
ment OF the head lest their cue Wigs
be disarranged. The French word for
foot Is pied Mind your pieds ANA
queues soon came 10 be iransphnted
= into English ana abbreviated.
Wallace Irwin once complained that
when he had been invited Ia be funny
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