Show FAMILIAR SAYINGS writers to whom the Author authorship of many of tin in 1 I traced miny many of our common sa ings n so true trite ind pithy are used without the hie least idea from i whose pen or mouth they first ori originated i n abed probably the alic works of shakespeare annn h us as with more of these familiar maxims titan than any other oilier writer for to liim him we owe all is not g gold frold ill eliat it glitters slake make a virtue of necessity screw your courage courage 7 to tile the sticking place not point they laugh that win this is the short shor t and long of it comparisons Compari tons are arc odious ll 11 As merry inerny as the day is long A daniel come came to jud judgment fra frailty thy name is woman and a lost host of others washington irving gives g nes n es the almighty dollar thomas mingan alurban min gan queried ion long ago what will mrs grandy say while goldsmith answers ask no questions and ill tell you no bibs fibs charles pinckney knoy gives ives millions for defense but not one cent for tribute first in war first in ill peace and first in the hearts of his fellow citizens not countrymen appeared in the resolutions to tile the ilon ilone house e of representatives in december 1790 by general lee thomas a witter of the alic six centar century mires gives us its better late than tit never look ore ere you leap and the stone that is rolling can gather no moss all cry and no wool is found in it butlers Hn dibras dryden says hays none but the brave deserve the fair ai men alen ire are but children of a larger er growth crowth and through mh thick and thin when greek joined greek then was the ill tug of war came from nathaniel lee of two evils I 1 have chosen choen the least and tile the end must justify the ahe means nicais are arc front from mathew prior we are indebted to colley bibber for the a agreeable intelli intelligence 0 ence that richard is himself am again ga in 17 johnson tells ns as of a good later hater and mcintosh in 1791 the phrase often attributed to john randolph wise and masterly inactivity variety is the very spice of life and not much the worse for wear cowper man proposes propose but god disposes thomas A Ke kempis christopher marlowe el gave gave forth the invitation so often repeated by his brothers in a less public way love me little love me ion long edward coke was of the opinion that A mans house is his castle to milton we owe the ithe I paradise of fools A wilderness of sweets and moping melancholy and moon struck madness edward youn young tells us ns death loves a shining mark and A fool is a fool indeed from bacon comes knowledge is power and thomas Sou therne reminds us that akin to love while dean swift thought that bread is the staff of life brooklyn 11 ne |